Page 78 of The Unwanted Mate of the Lycan Kings
“Save Litha’s daughter from death.”
She’s alive?I gasp.“She cursed her own daughter?”
Chapter 36
To punish them, she would curse her child to be with them?Itmakes no sense.I have so many questions racing through my mind, so many things I can’t fathom or understand.
“What about Sloth?”
Regan sighs.“We are all Sloth.We all just stood back and watched her die, we let my father do the dirty work, but we are just as guilty.He may have killed her, but we let him.”
“Why did your father want her dead, though, and to kill her so brutally?”
“She was a witch, back then that is how witches were killed.Only it was her death that brought on the curse.Her dying sealed it,” Regan explains.
“If you knew she cursed you, why kill her?”I ask.
“We didn’t know until she burned, and we burned along with her.The markings appeared first.They glowed brightly—showing our shame.We tried to cover them, and a few days later, the curse was revealed on the walls of her cell.All curses need some sort of sacrifice to be made, or some gift or offering.”
“She sacrificed herself.She made a fail-safe in case she died,” I whisper.
Regan nods.“Yes, and a good one too.Not only did she curse us, but she cloaked her daughter.We can’t identify her , and she won’tbe able to identify us.”
“What do you mean?”
“We aren’t sure.My father burned the cells in a rage and erased the curse from the walls before we could finish deciphering them,” he explains, and my eyebrows raise.
“I don’t get how I fit into any of this.Why would your father force your hand just because he is dying.He’d have to know it wouldn’t work,” I mutter.
“That is what we are trying to find out too.He has another agenda.We just aren’t sure what it is yet.”
So in all this, I am just a pawn to King Theron.It makes no sense.Why would he go to such extremes and pit them against each other if he wants them to get along and rule together?
Regan falls quiet like he is thinking the same thing when what Shelley told me takes up the forefront of my mind.If I don’t choose between his sons and none prove worthy, he’s handing the throne to his half brother Malachi.My thoughts are working overtime as I try to mesh what Shelley told me and what Regan believes to form some logical answer.
If I chose one, what would he gain?Because Regan believes I have no choice, that it was never mine.He thinks his father is trying to force them together to rule.But he would have to know he’s setting his sons up for failure...or maybe that’s the point.If they can’t work together, none of them get the throne, but I doubt Malachi will stand against the rightful heirs.So King Theron can’t give the throne away unless all his sons are dead.
It makes no sense why he would risk his sons, there has to be more, something he is hiding if what Regan claims is true.Because from what I do know is that no woman survives them.So he knew they would kill me.That makes my mood plummet further.He has not only set his sons up for failure, but he signed my death sentence as well.
“The curse on you, you share it with your brothers, right?”Regan stops pacing and looks at me.
“Yes, though each of us were cursed for different reasons, we all played our part in Litha’s death,” Regan tells me.
“What do you mean?”I teeter forward on the edge of the bedas he sighs deeply, avoiding my gaze.
“Zeke—” A knock sounds on the door, and we both freeze staring at it as it swings open.
Zeke walks in with a slow grin, and Regan has pure venom in his eyes.“How did you—”
Zeke holds up a key and Regan growls, shaking his head.
“You should be more careful where you leave your keys brother, anyone could have come in,” he states with a taunting smile.His eyes move to me, and I clutch what’s left of my top closed.
“I see you’ve been having fun with your little toy, Regan.I hope you’re not growing attached to her.You know she won’t live, and I don’t want to be the reason your heart gets broken.Father is up to something, and I will play no part in it.If you were smart, neither would you.”
“Then leave, Zeke!”Regan snarls.
“Me?I think not, brother.Do you truly believe I don’t know you and Lyon are working against me?You always have, and I am done with this facade we all wear.Now hand her over.”
