The Lycan King's Forbidden Craving novel Chapter 104

Chapter 104: Into the beast’s den

Chapter 104: Into the beast’s den

“‘ll head back to the ceremony,” Lucas after many beats of silence and began to leave, striding away quickly.

Lylah stood still, a little pale and worried.

“He is a great man,” a voice sounded

olher, and she turned to see Brigid approachfrig.

“I thought you said you weren’t going to attend,” Lylah smiled. “ove your dress, by the way.”

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“I changed my mind, and thank you,” Brigid replied, glancing back at the corridor Lucas had just disappeared into. “He’s a man who would bury himself deep within his own aching heart just to protect those around him.”

Lylah’s eyes squinted. “What do you mean?”

“I heard that many years ago, during the Mask Ceremony, Lord Lucas’s mate rejected him for a Southern noble Lycan. She claimed Lord Lucas wasn’t enough.”

Lylah’s lips parted in disbelief. “Is she insane? I knew it. Mating bonds suck.”

“I heard she’s a dark–skinned female Lycan, one of the most beautiful women in the realm.”

Lylah scoffed and mumbled under her breath, “Beauty, my ass.”

Brigid continued, “That’s why I wonder if he’ll ever open his heart to another. Since his ex–mate is still alive and living in the southern part of the realm, he can’t have a new mate.”

Lylah’s heart sank for the second time that night. “I hope he does.

“I’ll keep trying,” Brigid shrugged with a smile, and Lylah shot her a questioning look.

“What?”

“I like him. Lord Lucas,” Brigid stated, facing the corridor where Lord Lucas had left. “I wish to be his someday. I hope I’ll find a little bit of admiration in his eyes whenever he looks at me. I hope someday I’ll be in his chamber, his arms wrapped around me as we settle into a blissful night without a care in the world. I wish to carry his heir and give him what his ex–mate couldn’t.”

Brigid sighed. “But I’m just a maid. He’d barely look at me.”

Lylah’s mind was blank. Yes, she’d listened to everything, but for some reason, none of it really sank in.

“That is… uhm, cool,” she replied.

“I don’t know if you can help me, Lylah. You’re close to the Grand Lord. Perhaps you could put in a few good words for me,” Brigid said, turning fully toward her. “You’ll help me as your friend, right?”

In the deepest part of the palace, every corridor exuded an eerily bone–chilling aura-

being.

-one that would strike fear into any sane

“Please…” Kael’s broken voice echoed through the stone walls as two brute males dragged him through the dark hall.

Up ahead was a gate. He could feel the incredibly sinister aura emanating from behind it. Beside it stood King Duncan, arı folded, back resting against the wall, a small smirk dancing across his sinister face.

That smirk was more torturous than all the torments he had already endured. It meant this devil had something else in store for him.

Kael was dropped onto the ground, his already battered knees hitting the floor, sending pain rippling through his body.

“Pardon… me… Please. Have… mercy.”

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Chapter 104: Into the beasta den.

Duncan straightened, loosening his arms and letting them fall to his sides.

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“It is good to see you again, dear friend. I’ve been worried about you lately, Worried that you might have given yourself over to the Ghosts which would be truly pitiful and disappointing…”

“But that is what I want,” Kael cut in with a trembling voice. “Please, just end my life. This is too much… I can’t bear it any longer, Just take a sword and cut my throat!”

“Are you commanding me?”

“No!” Kael’s face went pale as he shook his head. “I didn’t mean like that. Please forgive me, Your Grace, for being a pathetic fool. I will own up to my actions with anna…”

Duncan let out a low warning growl, shooting him a hard look.

Kael continued sobbing, bowing his head. “Please pardon me. I’ll do anything.”

A beat of silence passed. Kael felt a chill coming from behind the gate, but Duncan’s voice caught his attention again.

“I’ll let you go.”

Kael slowly looked up, unsure if he had heard correctly–but then his heart dropped at the sight of Duncan drawing a dagger from his pocket, gazing at the blade with a bored look.

He turned his gaze to Kael. “Under one condition.”

Kael almost flinched as the king approached and crouched before him, offering him the dagger. His heart pounded hard in his chest, sweat beaded his entire trembling body, clad in just subligaculum. His body covered with bruises, burns and blood.

“Take it.”

Kael gave Duncan a questioning look, once again feeling a chill from behind the gates–but the man before him terrified him

more.

He wanted to ask something, but he feared he might be forced to eat his own tongue.

“Go on,” Duncan urged.

Kael took the dagger, staring at it, wondering what he was supposed to do with it.

Then the guards began opening the gate, and Kael’s eyes widened. Were they going to put him in there?

As if reading his thoughts, the King replied, “Yes, you are.”

“Your Grace…”

“If you survive one hour with my pets lurking in the shadows inside these cells, I shall banish you–and set you free,” Duncan assured him, sealing his words.

Kael was beyond shocked. The King’s pets were rumored to be Dire Hounds–beasts terrifying at the mere sight, trained to hunt

and kill.

He had thought those were perhaps just myths and tales.., but here he was, about to be thrown into their den, expected to survive an hour with only a dagger to defend himself.

Truly, Duncan was a devil.

“Your Grace!” Kael cried out as the soldiers grabbed him. He struggled, but his strength was no match.

“No! You can’t do this!”

“There’s no way I’m going to survive!”

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