Page 103 of The Unwanted Mate of the Lycan Kings
“What’s gotten into you?You’re not touching her,” Regan snarls.
“The baby, she’s mine.Take the fucking kingdom, just give me my mate.”Zeke snarls.
Regan looks at him, confused.“No, she is mine,” Regan snarls.
The confusion on both their faces is evident.However, Litha glares at them, clutching me in her ripped shawl as she tries to stand, but she falls heavily back to the floor.
Zeke turns his attention to Litha.“You!You did this!It’s a trick...fix it.Tell him she’s my mate!”he yells, shoving Regan off.
“No, it is not possible.How could we share a mate...”Regan snarls.“She did something.She can fix it.I won’t share her!”
“You won’t touch her!”Litha screams.Zeke’s eyes flash dangerously, his head tilting, and he lunges at Litha only to be tackled by Regan.
Regan tries to calm his brother down, but the situation escalates quickly.The two brothers fight while my granny demands they stop and keep the noise down, telling them that they’ll draw attention to the tunnels.As their fight rages on, I can hear the distant sound of approaching footsteps and shouts from guards.
As the guards draw nearer, both Regan and Zeke look at my mother in panic, realizing their mistake.They alerted the king’s guard to their location.Regan’s skin ripples as he peers over at the tunnel entrance just as guards emerge.They carefully take in the scene before spotting my mother, and one guard smiles wickedly, lifts his gun, aimsit at my mother, and pulls the trigger.
The bang echoes off the walls, drilling into my ears, and Regan attacks the guards, ripping them to shreds, yet I pay him no mind.Instead, I stare down at Zeke, gasping for breath, having taken the bullet to protect my mother.
“Zeke, we need to get them out of—” Regan turns around, drenched in blood, his brother gasping for breath on the hard ground.
“Get them out,” Zeke rasps, as Regan falls to his knees beside him.
“No...”He tries to stop the bleeding, but nothing works.The poison from the bullets spreads through Zeke, and the blood drains from his face.
I can see the anguish in Regan’s expression as he looks at his fallen brother.“No, stay with me, Zeke,” Regan begs, clutching his brother.Lyon stumble into the tunnel.He staggers forward then stops, making Regan look at him.
“I heard the guns...the...Zeke?”Lyon stutters.
“Get a fucking healer!”Regan snarls at Lyon, who seems to be in a state of shock.Lyon nods.“I’ll get help...I will get...”his eyes go to Litha, and I watch something change in Lyon.
Like a switch has been flicked suddenly, his voice no longer trembles.“I’ll get help,” he assures Regan, who is fussing over Zeke and not witnessing the wicked glint in his brother’s eyes.Yet when Lyon doesn’t return quickly, Regan can tell Zeke is dying.Suddenly, Regan straightens.
“You’re a witch.Fix him...”Litha stares at Zeke, then her eyes flick to Regan.“Litha, you can save him,” Regan begs, his voice breaking with desperation.
“You want me to mess with the fates to save someone trying to kill me?”my mother snarls.
“He’s dying!”
“I know...”Litha tells him.Regan looks at my granny.“She can’t save him.My mother handed that power to me when I became queen.If I save him, you let us go!”my mother demands, and Regan nods.
“Anything.I will set you free.Just save him,” Regan begs.
“Litha, you’re too weak.You can’t,” my granny pleads.
“She’s a high priestess!”Regan yells at my granny.
“One that has been hiding in tunnels for days.She’s lost her connection to the sun and moon, trapped down here hiding from your father!She just had a baby!”my granny yells at him, and Regan growls.
“No, I am a mother.I save him, you give me your word you’ll get us out of here.Saving him will deplete me of power.I can’t cloak my daughter with the elements without the moon,”
“Yes!I said yes, now hurry before he dies!”
Litha stares at Zeke, then her eyes flit back to Regan.“Your word, I want your word.You get us out.I need the moon.I need the moon to cloak them,” my mother tells him.
“Yes, I give you my word...I will get you to the moon.Just hurry,” Regan tells her.I watch my mother heal Zeke, tying his life to Regan’s while the energy it takes exhausts her.By the time she is done, she can barely stand.
“She did what you asked.Now help her, help me get her out of these tunnels,” my granny yells.But as Regan moves to grab her, footsteps sound, and Zeke wakes, disorientated.Within seconds, the tunnels are filled with guards blocking all exits, and King Theron walks into the tunnel.
