The Lunar Queen (Lyric and Mason) novel Chapter 78

Chapter 78

She gasps. “He’s the king?” she asks.

“Yes, and my mate,” I say, smiling.

She screams, “YOU’RE GOING TO BE THE QUEEN!”

We all laugh at her.

“Yes, I am. Want to meet him?” I ask.

She nods.

“He looks scary,” she whispers.

“He isn’t, he’s like a teddy bear,” I say, and Cole growls, making her hide behind me.

I shoot him a look instantly, my brows pulling together just enough for him to catch it.

“I’m sorry, princess,” he says to her.

“I’m not a princess,” she says.

“I can make you one,” he says, winking at her.

“Yes, please,” she squeals.

“You are now officially a princess,” he says, tapping both her shoulders.

Then, we all bow.

“Your highness,” we all say, and she giggles.

I walk to the counter with Sierra in my arms.

“Hey, Lyric, it’s good to see you again. Hopefully no more accidents,” he says, raising a brow.

“Nope, all handled,” I say.

“Bigger crowd this time,” he says.

“Yeah, well, I’m leaving in two days and today is my birthday, so we wanted to hang out,” I reply.

“No, you can’t leave,” Sierra says.

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“But I have to, I can’t be Queen from here,” I say.

“Can I come?” she asks.

“I think your daddy will miss you,” I say.

“Let me get two lanes again, same rotation, add extra targets, and throw in some small targets,” I say.

“Coming up, need rentals?” he asks.

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“Yeah, I didn’t come from the pack house,” I reply.

When we walk out to the lanes, Sierra holds my and Cole’s hands the whole way there.

“She likes you, my king,” I link him.

“She’s a cute pup. I can’t wait for our own,” he links back.

That lands deeper than it should, settling somewhere warm and heavy in my chest instead of just passing through.

“Soon, my love,” I say, and he freezes, looks at me, and I just wink at him.

“What did you see?” he links.

“A lot, my love. We will talk tonight,” I say, closing the link.

“Ready, Eli?” I ask.

“Oh, you are on,” he says, setting his bow up.

When the buzzer rings, we both get head shots.

By target four, he’s sweating.

When the buzzer rings and the targets come back, he looks at me in shock.

“All head shots. You didn’t miss a single one. How?” Eli asks.

I shrug my shoulders.

“When Mason and I were younger, he bought me a practice bow for my sixth birthday, and we used to practice behind the packhouse, using the warriors as targets. As I got older, we started coming here. Even after Mason stopped coming, I came with

Winter or alone every day,” I explain.

“Teach me your ways,” he says, in awe.

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“I will be teaching every wolf at the royal pack, and I hope to add it as part of the Royal Warrior Program. They don’t learn weapons ·

at all,” I say, looking at my mate.

“You can do whatever you want, my queen,” he says.

“We just had to find your mate to get what we wanted?” Dom says, laughing.

“Okay, I’m hungry, so lunch?” I suggest.

Everybody quickly agrees.

“What activities are going on today?” Eli asks as we walk to the cars.

“I think there is a couple’s relay and trivia, as well as a pack run tonight and tomorrow night after the ball,” Mason says. /

“Ohh, Nova can’t wait to be let out,” I say.

“I don’t think that is wise, my Queen,” Cole says as we climb into the car.

“It will be fine, I trust me. Nova and I got this,” I say, winking at him as we drive back home.

And I do trust myself…

but there’s a small part of me-quiet, almost buried-that knows this is the calm before something shifts again.

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