Page 77 of The Unwanted Mate of the Lycan Kings
“Well, it would look funny given I’m a lycan not a cat shifter.”I nod my head.“So the burning woman is lust?”
“The woman, lust—and fire is how she died.We all have something that represents Litha,”
“Zeke’s is the fire?”
Regan nods and my brow furrow as I think over what he’s told me.
“Wait!You said only she can save you ALL from the curse?”
“Yes, we are cursed to share the same mate.Now you know why even if we found her, we’d never be able to break it.We’d kill her or try to kill each other.”
“But your father?”
“Why do you think he’s forcing you to keep Zeke,” he says slowly, letting his words sink in.
“He wasn’t giving me a choice at all,” I whisper as that clarity washes over me like a tidal wave.
“No, my father is a crafty old fool.The choice was never yours, Z.He’s trying to make us choose to rule together!He doesn’t care if we kill you, but he’ll use your death as a way to make us comply by threatening our thrones.”
“So, if you kill me, he’ll take your thrones?”I ask.
“Yes, he’s trying to find a way to control us.You’re just a means to do so, but I think Zeke has figured that out.He knows he can’topenly kill you, but he also knows that we will never rule alongside each other.If we can’t get along, my father will have no choice but to choose between us.”“He knows we are competitive and that our instincts will overrule all logic.He knows we’ll fight for the spot, but what I don’t get is what he’ll gain by having us at each other’s throats.Using our thrones and kingdoms against us will only start another war.He’ll have to choose in the end anyway.He knows we won’t all rule together, and Zeke?Zeke can never get his hands on that throne.”
“But you have the blood tie?”
Regan nods slowly moving closer.“Which means if one dies, we all do.”
“So that is what Zeke meant when he said you won’t kill him unless you’re suicidal.”
“But how can you find your mate if there are no lycan females?”
“That’s the point.We can’t find her because she doesn’t exist.Well, that is what Zeke and Lyon believe anyway.”
“You believe she does?”I ask him.
“Yes...”He pauses, watching me for a second, then answers, “I know she does.”
“How?”I question.
“Because I saved her,” he tells me, and my brows furrow in confusion.
“So there is another female lycan?”I gasp.
“Yes, I just need to find the oracle.If I find her, I will find our mate,” he tells me.
“And she’ll break the curse?”
Regan sighs.“I don’t know.The only thing I know is our mate is also cursed, Litha cursed her to be the seven virtues.She’ll either be our salvation or our condemnation.”
“Condemnation?”So to punish them, she also punished their mate?
“Yes, she has the power to break the blood tie or use it against us, to take everything we’ve worked for and pit us against each other.If she can do that, then she holds the power.One dies, we all die, freeing humanity of the lycans, but it’s a double-edged sword.If we find her, every lycan will come for her because she is the last female of our kind.They all came for my mother the same way.”Regan’s eyes darken.
“That’s how your mother died?”
He nods solemnly.“She came with me one night, even though she was forbidden to leave the castle.I tried telling them for years there is a way to break the curse, but my father and brothers wouldn’t believe me.They wanted to know how I was so sure, but I couldn’t give that information up.The only one who believed me was my mother, and she knew because she helped me,” Regan tells me.
“Helped you what?”I ask.
