The Lunar Queen (Lyric and Mason) novel Chapter 96

Chapter 96

“I don’t know but we need to find out, after we get back to the palace,” I say.

“but if they ambush us, how do we do that?” Iris asks.

“we fight and protect you,” I say looking at her, my chest tightening again at the memory of her dying.

“why me?” she asks.

“they want to use you as bait to get me and you died,” I say, voice cracking despite trying to keep it together.

“but I will not let that happen, now that we know it is coming we will be prepared,” I say.

“I’m going to hide our scents and we will send the cars without us and run in our wolves to the ambush point and we will have the

upper hand,” I say.

“I knew you would make a wonderful Queen,” Cole says smiling, kissing my cheek, grounding me just enough to keep me focused.

“hello imminent danger here people,” Winter says.

“we will be fine, that is why I saw it first, now lets go,” I say, pushing past the fear and locking in.

We shift into our wolves.

Nova and I keep our appearance the same since he knows.

The SUVS leave and we run a few feet behind in the trees on the opposite side of where we were attacked from, the ground moving fast under my paws as adrenaline floods through me.

The moment we hear the crash we stop.

“Iris stay close to me,” I link her.

“got it,” she links back.

As the rogues go for the trucks we attack.

We kill every rogue in sight, fast, efficient, not letting them get close enough to repeat what I already saw.

As I catch one run off-

“Elias watch her,” I link him as I take off after the rogue with Cole, not even thinking twice.

When we catch him he is stopped at a truck smiling as if he won, something about it instantly wrong.

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“you walked right to him,” he says.

I snap his neck before he can say anything else, not giving him the chance to finish whatever trap he thinks he set.

His body crumbles to the floor.

Silence.

Then we hear clapping coming from behind the truck.

“David,” Cole growls, his body going rigid beside me.

“hello cousin it’s been a while, this must be your mate,” he says.

“what’s her name something musical, note, tune. Ah Lyric it is nice to finally meet you,” he says, his tone too calm for everything happening around us.

“you look just like her even down to the height, kind of freaky to see in person,” he says.

“you two obviously have the upper hand as you killed all my rogues, so I will leave you with a warning a war is coming and I will take back what is mine and you all will fall in the process,” he snarls.

“I could kill you right where you stand,” I snarl stepping forward, my power rising again, reacting to him instantly.

“you could except I’m not really here,” he says smiling.

I throw a fireball at him and it goes right through him hitting the truck instead, flames bursting on impact behind him.

“astral projection,” I growl, anger flaring hotter now.

“oh you are a smart one, see you soon cousin,” he says before he vanishes.

“we need to get back to the palace now,” Cole growls, already turning like he knows this isn’t over.

I don’t move right away.

Because something in my chest tightens again-not fear this time… something worse.

Because the vision didn’t end with Iris dying.

It ended with him.

And now that I’ve stopped one future-

I don’t know what just replaced it.

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