The Lunar Queen (Lyric and Mason) novel Chapter 56

Chapter 56

Then we see Josh at the entrance of the back room, with his neck snapped.

“We found this tape recorder on him, Alpha,” a warrior says, handing it to him.

My father presses play.

Every instinct in me is screaming not to listen-but I don’t move. I force myself to hear it. All of it,

“You told me to stay away from him, and I did,” I hear Lyric say, then a slap.

“I saw the picture, Lyric. I know you kissed him,” Summer says.

“Please, just let me go,” Lyric pleads.

Her voice breaks through me in a way nothing else ever has–because I wasn’t there, Because she called for help and I didn’t hear it.

My dad fast-forwards, and we hear Josh: “We should stop, guys. She’s already hurt, and Summer’s gone. She won’t know.”

“Come on, Josh. We’re already here, and it’s free,” a voice says.

“That’s Nathaniel,” my dad states.

“Shut him up,” another voice orders.

“That sounds like Brad,” I say just before we hear the crack.

The rest of the tape records them assaulting her until they leave with her, then it falls silent until the tape cuts out.

I don’t hear everything. I can’t. My mind starts shutting parts of it out-but I hear enough. More than enough.

I flip over the recorder, and there’s a note.

“If you found this, they killed me. I tried to stop them and help her, but I was too weak. She was kind to me, and I didn’t help her. In my room at my house are recordings of every conversation we had after Lyric’s first attack. Please tell my parents I’m sorry,

Alpha,” the note reads.

It says so much.

More than any of us wanted to know but everything we needed. More than I can even process right now.

“You’re running point on this, son. She’s your mate. Think like an Alpha, not like a wolf seeking revenge,” my dad advises.

But right now, I don’t know how to be anything else.

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I link our head warrior, Matthew. “I need you to send warriors to pick up Summer, Savannah, Nathaniel, and Brad, and take them to

the cells,” I say.

“Yes, Alpha, right on it,” he replies.

“I’m headed to the pack hospital,” I tell my dad.

We shift and run there. When we arrive, everyone is in the waiting room. Winter runs up to me.

“Please tell me you caught them,” she says, tears streaming.

Her voice is already breaking before I answer-and I hate that I’m the one who has to confirm it’s real.

“I have Matthew bringing all of them to the cells right now,” I reply.

Aunt Elizabeth’s head snaps up at that. “You put Summer in the cells, Mason,” she snaps.

She’s the mastermind,” I say.

now that,” she yells.

he already does. We all do. She just doesn’t want to say it out loud.

“Mom,” Hunter cuts in. “Yes, we do. Summer hates Lyric. She always has. She hated that everyone in the pack, except you and Dad,

loved Lyric, even though she looks nothing like us,” Hunter insists.

“He’s right, Liz,” my dad agrees. “One of the warriors turned on her, and although he died as a result, he left us everything we need

to prove it. We have her on tape, Lizzie,” he says softly.

“No, why would she do this? She’s her sister,” my aunt cries.

“She never saw her that way, Mom,” Jace chimes in.

“Liz, honey, come si

even spok

povan suggests just as Dr. Grant steps out of the room. Her face shows everything before she

ask, “How is she?”

brutally honest, Beta. I’m not hopeful. She lost way more blood than last time. She was beaten repeatedly with a silver whip,

with long jagged silver cuts on both arms and legs, and she was assaulted multiple times,” the doctor reports.

The room goes dead quiet after that-like no one even knows how to breathe past it.

Kane forces the shift before I can process what she said.

Because I can’t hold it together anymore-and he won’t let me fall apart without a fight.

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Hunter, Micah, Lucas, and my dad gather around me.

“Kane, I know you’re upset, but you need to give Mason control back,” my dad says.

“Kane, we will make Summer and the others pay. None of them will get away with this,” I tell him.

“Fine,” he huffs, relinquishing control.

1 collapse on the floor when he forces the shift back.

My body just gives out. No strength. No control. Just… gone.

“I put her in a medically induced coma,” Dr. Grant says.

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why are they surprised? the last time they said all the same things. should have got her protected then.

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