Novels by Mercy Lance

Chapter 50: KADE'S CHOPPED FINGERSThe great hall had never felt so small.Arden walked through the massive doors, and the temperature in the room dropped like someone had thrown them into a winter night. His white hair hung loose, damp with sweat and still caked faintly at the temples with Hazel's blood. He didn't wipe it off. He let his mates blood stick to him.His silver eyes moved across the elders one by one. Men who'd taught him how to lead, to bleed for his pack, who'd filled in his father's place and called themselves his uncles.One by one, they all looked away.He didn't speak.He walked past the long marble table, past the polished wood and silver inlays that meant nothing now, and sat down on the throne. It was high, a perfect golden throne that glittered, anybody given a chance to sit there wouldn't even blink before accepting the offer. But they wouldn't dare. No one could speak to him without craning their neck. Today it felt like a guillotine.The silence was worse th

Chapter 49: SOMETHING FAR MORE DANGEROUS Lyra had been busy.Busy spreading rumour around the pack saying the king had taken the prisoner out of the palace, he let her escape, he's blinded by love.The streets of his pack now filled with rumours about him.By the time Arden's car pulled through the palace gates, she had already spread the news through every corner of the kingdom. The king had sneaked the traitor out. The king was trying to hide her. The king was protecting a woman who had sold their secrets and weaknesses to the rogues.The elders were already gathered in the great hall, their voices raised in outrage. They were furious as they debated the matter on ground."This is unacceptable!" Helena shouted, slamming her fist against the table. " He cannot simply_""He can, so he did." Kade Interrupted coldly. " He's the king. He can do whatever he wants. The question is whether we let him, we have to stand our ground as the elders. We can't allow this."Bronze sat in the corner

Chapter 48: STAY WITH ME"Everything stops now."Darian's voice cut through the clearing like a sharp blade.He stepped into the opening, and Hazel's breath caught in her throat. She had heard stories about him, about the monster before her. The rogue who had killed Arden's family, though they didn't give her more details about what had happened, the monster who wore a man's face, the shadow that had been hunting them since before she even arrived at the palace.The stories didn't do him justice.He was tall, nearly as tall as Arden, with a face that might have been handsome if not for the cruelty lurking in his eyes. His hair was dark, streaked with gray, and a long scar ran from his temple to his jaw, pulling his mouth into a permanent sneer.Behind him, at least fifty rogues emerged from the trees, all of them smelled like bad news as they had an evil glint on their faces.Weapons glinted in the moonlight. Swords, axes, crossbows aimed directly at Hazel's heart."We only brought a

Chapter 47: LYRA FOUND OUT The palace felt awfully quiet.It was something out of the norms, and lyra had noticed.Lyra noticed it the moment she stepped through the main gates, the unnatural silence, the absence of servants scurrying through the corridors, the way the guards seemed to care less of their jobs as they did it in a lackadaisical manner.Something has happened. They couldn't be this free and less scared around the alpha.She kept her face neutral, her steps measured, as she made her way towards Arden's office. If she could just get him alone without those bad lucks who called themselves his beta and gamma, just a few minutes to whisper in his ear, to let her scent fill his lungs, to remind him that she was there, maybe she could convince him to speed up the execution. Maybe she could make him see the truth, make him see that Hazel was a liability to him, a total danger and a traitor who needed to be eliminated before she destroyed everything he had built, the peace, love

Chapter 46: A TRAPEthan's knees struck the earth with a force that cracked the frozen ground beneath him.He tried to move or stand but his body wouldn't bulge, he even found it hard to breathe, he felt surpressed by a force which was way more than gravity.His body was no longer his own. His wolf, the arrogant, brutal beast that had always answered his every command, was cowering in the back of his mind, whimpering like a puppy that had been kicked into the rain."What_" Ethan gasped, streaks of sweat pouring down his face. " What did you do to me? What have you done? How dare you?"Hazel looked down at him with utmost disgust in her eyes.For a moment, just a few minutes she felt a flicker of satisfaction. This was the man who rejected her in front of her entire pack, the man who called her a worthless and wolfless omega, who always seized all chances to call her useless. The man who had made her fell like less than nothing.And now he was kneeling at her feet, with a confused and

Chapter 45: A DIFFERENT PERSONHazel had never woken up faster.The moment her eyes opened, she was moving, throwing off the thick blanket off her body, ignoring the ache in her muscles, the heaviness in her bones. She jumped off the bed. Today was the day. Arden had promised they were going to rescue Piper. She was finally going to meet her best friend. She couldn't skip that chance, before something would happen or before Arden would change his mind.No more waiting. No more hiding.She threw open her closet, the small clothes the guards had left untorn, it no longer looked like the grand wardrobe of the Luna of such a great and big kingdom, one of the biggest among the four territories. She began tearing through it. She needed something tough. Something she could fight in.A pair of dark leather pants. A fitted tunic. A black canvas which fits perfectly.She dressed quickly, her fingers fumbling with the laces, her heart pounding so hard she could feel it in her throat which was al