Filed to story: Offered to the Lycan King Novel by Misha K (River & Hunter)
Lia shook her head. “Had Arthur not identified your scent, which was highly likely with the way you had tried to mask it by r*bbing linseed oil on you, we couldn’t have found the connection. Your alibi was strong except for the fact that your aunt was admitted on the same day as I. You both were there just to see how I was doing. You both wanted me dead and were waiting for an opportunity to k*ill me if I was alive. Asher can prove that because he has videos from the hospital too. You-” she pointed at Tabatha. “You were seen loitering in the corridors of the hospital, but you could never reach me because my corridor was cordoned off and there were guards everywhere. Besides, Arthur and Hawk barely left me.”
Lia closed her eyes as the gravity of Tabatha’s plan weighed upon her. Arthur came to her side and she leaned into him.
“She is so weak, both mentally and physically?’ Tabatha scoffed. “What do you see in her?”
Lia opened her eyes. “I don’t know what they see in me, but they see a murderer in you!”
Tabatha bared her fangs at her in fury. Enraged as hell, Hawk jumped at her and grabbed her n*eck in his f*ingers. He started squeezing it h*ard. Tabatha coughed and wheezed as tears rolled out. Her aunt shouted, “Leave her! Please!” Only when Lia placed her h*and on his back, did Hawk calm down.
“If you dare to disrespect her again, I won’t even listen to my mate!” Hawk warned her menacingly. Tabatha coughed and slouched on the ground.
Lia started again, “Now aren’t you a moron that you tried to do the same thing when I declared that I was going to my home? Did you really think that it was so easy? Did you really think that I would take the same route a week later and that too without my mates following me?”
Tabatha snapped her head up, her eyes wide. Lia laughed. “That was all a part of our plan. I announced loudly that I would go to my parents so that we could elicit an action from you. Though it wasn’t needed because we had enough evidence, but we wanted to know who the truck driver was. And guess what? We got our culprit so fast!” Lia chuckled as she looked at her aunt. “But this is not where it ends?” She took a step closer to Tabatha. “You have to give me names of those who helped you.”
“No one helped me!” she retorted.
All at once the iron door of the prison opened and Shawn and Lena shoved Gwen inside.
“See, your accomplice has arrived.”
Gwen stared h*ard at Tabatha and she froze. “Tabatha?” she squeaked, fear lingering on her face. She whipped her head to Hunter. “Alpha Hunter, I didn’t do anything!”
Hunter narrowed his eyes. He crossed the gap bet**en them and backh*anded her. Gwen shrieked in pain as she was hurled across the prison and landed next to Tabatha. “Whose truck was that?” he growled, his Alpha power spilling out of him.
“What truck?” Gwen rasped.
Lia c*ocked her head. She pulled her phone out and showed her a registration plate. “This is the original registration plate of the truck you own.” She shoved the phone in her face. “Just before you gave this truck to Tabatha to use, you had painted the number plate black.”
Gwen whimpered. “I— I am sorry! But this was Tabatha’s idea. She hates you more than you can think. She wanted to k*ill you, not I.”
“What?” Tabatha stared shocked at her words. “It was you who came up with the plan. I was trying to protect you sitting in the dungeon, and you have thrown me to the wolves?”
“Shut up!” Gwen hissed. She scrambled away from her. “It was you who wanted to k*ill Lia and get into Hawk’s p*ants and wealth.”
“As if you didn’t want to?” Tabatha shot back. “You were the one who was pissed off by Lia’s presence. You were the one who beat up Lia when you first met her.”
“What the f*uck!” Gwen shouted. “You also beat her up. You were the one who locked her in the bathroom!” Another slap resounded and this time stars burst into her vision. Gwen simply blacked out. She didn’t even know who had slapped her. Arthur towered on her unconscious b*ody with his fangs and claws drawn out. “Leave them Arthur? Lia’s soft voice came. “Let’s go up. I don’t know what your laws are for attempting to murder, Alpha Hunter, but in our world, it is lifetime imprisonment.”
“And it is usually death in our world,” Hunter replied.
“Then you do what you want to,” Lia said. She grasped the h*ands of her mates and walked out of the dungeon with Shawn and Lena following them. She needed a break and for that she was going to go to her home. She wanted to be with her parents and her mates. She needed to feel safe and only three people made her feel that. Shawn, Arthur and Hawk.
She hugged Shiloh who was standing by the car. As soon as she sat inside with her, Shawn drove his daughters to home. Arthur and Hawk followed.
When they reached home, Lia grabbed her daddy’s h*and and walked inside with Shiloh on the other side. She made him sit on the couch and Shiloh sat on the other side. It was like the two girls were extremely attached to their father.
Hawk and Arthur sat on the sofas opposite to them as they watched all the love and affection. They understood that Lia needed a deeper assurance and that could only be given by Shawn.
Lena was very happy to see her family come together. She rushed to the kitchen to make coffee for them, blinking her tears away. She sympathized with Lia a lot. The poor girl was separated very early from the only parent who loved her the most. She couldn’t think of what Natalie did to her. She wouldn’t even dream of doing that to either Lia or Shiloh.
“Daddy,” Lia said, snuggling into his upper arm.
“My baby…” Shawn stroked her hair. “I am so sorry that you had to go through all this.”
Lia curled her arms around his arm. “It’s all over and I don’t want to think about it.”
“You shouldn’t,” he said. “You have to look to the future and not the past. Those who did this to you, don’t deserve to stay in your memories, but-” he lifted her face up in his palm. “You should learn from these bad experiences.
Any experience in your life can turn into a failure or success. If it’s a failure, you have learnt from it, if it’s a success, you have discovered the mantra.” He tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. “I want you to reflect on your past experience and come up with a plan on how you can combat it.”
Lena had come with a pot of coffee and pastries. “That’s right, Lia. Your father is worried about your future. We have to come up with a plan to keep you safe in the worlds of werewolves and Lycans.” Lia nodded as she looked with a smile at Lena. “Come here, mom,” she said, patting on her side. Surprised, Lena kept the tray on the table and went to sit next to her. “What is it, Lia?” Lia immediately hugged her. “I wish you were my mom.”
“Oh Lia!” Lena hugged her back t*ightly. “I am your mom.” This time she couldn’t stop her tears. Shiloh came from the other side and joined them as Shawn watched his family with pride in his c*hest. The best decision that he had taken in his life was when he had accepted Hunter’s offer to build a hotel in this world.
Coffee was poured in the cups by Hawk as Arthur attacked the pastries. “I have an idea on how Lia can protect herself,” Arthur said, devouring the pastries.
“I am listening,” Shawn said, taking the cup from Hawk.
“Uncle Elijah was saying that Lia should be trained to become the future Luna of the pack. There are a lot of things that she has to learn but one of the most important things is that she should learn how to fight.”
“But she’s a human,” Shawn argued. “Even at her best. She won’t be able to survive an attack from a Lycan or werewolf.”
Arthur took a ragged breath in. “I know, but any kind of warrior skill will be beneficial to her.”
“That’s right,” Hawk added. “With her intelligence, she can easily dodge the attack. I know she can do it.” Lia chuckled at how confident her mates were about her.
“That’s true. She is pretty intelligent,” Arthur said. “I would strongly suggest that till she goes to college, she should learn to fight.”
Suddenly Shawn stiffened. “College?”
Lia looked at him with a puzzled exp**ssion. “Yes daddy,” she said as if asking for an answer. “I will go to college after school.”
“Lia, I am scared. Garry is still out there, lurking in the shadows. I don’t trust him one bit.”
“He doesn’t know where I am daddy’’ Lia smiled. “So relax.” Shawn shook his head. “I can’t. Not until that bastard is still out there.”
“In that case, it is necessary that she learns the warrior skills, Shawn,” Lena said. “The Dark Moon pack has one of the best trainers.”
“I will be training her!” Hawk growled.
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