Page 54 of His Loved Lycan Luna

“More than my life,” she whispers, tears filling her eyes and her lips quivering.

“More than my life,” I murmur, closing my eyes as I watch her close hers. Together, we wait for death, like we have before. Their paws on the earth grow closer when I hear a feral snarl rip through the air, bouncing off the trees, and I hear the wolves’ claws digging into the soft ground as they skid around us.

My eyes fly open to find Dustin stepping over the top of us in his Lycan form. Dustin kicks Kade in the face as he tries to stand. Blood drenches him where he has pulled himself free from the car, but he doesn’t appear to be bleeding anymore. Dustin growls, but it comes like more of a roar. The wolves jump back, and Kade gets to his feet and staggers backward, trying to get away from him.

“Kill him,” I murmur to Dustin. My eyes flicker as I fight to remain conscious.

“If I do, it may kill Abbie,” he growls, and I look at Abbie, tears glistening in her eyes.

“Reject her now!” Dustin tells him through gritted teeth.However, there is no command behind it. Rolling on my side, I grab Dustin’s leg, and his hand reaches down, gripping my arm to pull me upright.

“Order him,” I choke out as blood fills my mouth from having bitten my tongue.

“I can’t,” Dustin grinds out, and I look at him, not understanding.

“You’re Lycan,” I whisper to him.

“I’m under oath being a Royal Guard. I can’t break a mate bond. It is law and pact sworn to be upheld; I am bound by that oath, Azalea!”

Kade laughs, getting to his feet. I glance at Abbie as she sits up.

“Come here, Abbie,” Kade orders, and I see her eyes glaze over. She obeys, taking a step toward him. My heart skips a beat as she dazedly starts walking over to her mate. Dustin grabs her arm, and Kade clicks his tongue.

“I wouldn’t do that if I were you,” Kade says, his pack of wolves circling around us. We are severely outnumbered. Dustin glances around nervously. Lycans are lethal, but against fifty-plus wolves, I’m not sure how we would fare when Dustin is the only one who is shifted.

“You are aware of the repercussions, Dustin. Don’t be foolish,” Kade snarls. I peer up at Dustin, hanging onto Abbie’s arm, preventing her from going to Kade, and his other hand holding me against him.

I move behind Dustin and rip Abbie backward and away from Kade. Gripping her arms, I shake her, but her fresh mark seems to have done something to her willpower; I can see she has multiple mate marks on her neck from him.

“Abbie, reject him,” I murmur, shaking her.

Kade laughs and steps forward, which makes Dustin growl threateningly.

“You can’t touch me. I am just collecting my mate. I haven’t injured your queen; I only tried to hold her. Though by law I could,considering she tried to take my mate from me by force,” Kade says cockily. “You do anything, and I have a lot of witnesses,” Kade says, motioning around to his pack. Dustin moves in front of us, but even I know if he attacks Kade, the rest of those wolves will rip us apart.

“Abbie, reject him,” I beg.

Kade laughs louder and claps his hands. “She really doesn’t know, and she is expected to be our queen? Pathetic! Foolish, you would expect the king to have more sense to pick a mate more suited to the position and keep his whore on the side. She can’t run a pack, noble blood or not; she isn’t fit for the title,” he chuckles.

“Hold your tongue, mutt. You do not know what you speak of,” Dustin snaps at him.

“No, your oblivious queen isn’t aware of the law. Should I educate her simple mind?”

I glance at him over my shoulder. “For Abbie to reject me, I have to accept it. Which I won’t. She will leave with me.”

“No, she rejects you. She can come home,” I tell him. Kyson promised she could come home; she just had to ask.

“Wrong. A minor flaw in the king’s law. Both parties must accept, and if one doesn’t, it is decided by the council. Only then is it forced, but until then, she is mine, and I will like to collect her now!” Kade says, moving toward us. I look at Dustin, whose entire body tenses, and I glance back at Abbie. I shake her, anger coursing through me.

“Reject him!” I snap at her, trying to get her attention. “Abbie, reject him!” I yell in her face. Something I said clicks, and she suddenly straightens. She blinks, shaking her head.

“I don’t know how. It didn’t work,” she murmurs, coming out of whatever stupor she was in.

“He is an Alpha you have to reject as your mate and as your Alpha. State your full name and reject him using his title,” Dustin murmurs, not taking his eyes off Kade.

“But he is right, Azalea,” Dustin glances at me. “I can’t force him to accept it,” Dustin whispers.

“Reject him,” I tell her, shaking her. Kade just laughs evilly. Stepping toward her, his hand goes to grab her.

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