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Thirty One

Author: Bleeding Pen
last update publish date: 2026-05-05 08:25:28

Octavian

The second the door opened, everything stopped.

Daisy froze against the wall beneath my hands, the heat of her body still pressed dangerously close to mine while the scent of lace, skin, and desire thickened the air between us.

And standing in the doorway was Caspian.

For one long, catastrophic second, nobody moved, then the room went dead silent.

I watched the exact moment realization hit Daisy. Her entire body stiffened abruptly, her eyes widening as she looked between us, horror
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  • The Lycan King's Secret Heirs    One Hundred and Thirteen

    Caspian The folder rested on the passenger seat the entire drive. I never looked at it and I didn't need to.Every page inside had already carved itself into my memory.Victor's letter, Henry's records, the altered medical report, and the financial ledger. Years of lies compressed into a stack of paper that weighed more than it had any right to.By the time I reached Elias's office, I wasn't angry anymore, anger had burned itself out somewhere along the way.What remained was colder.“I'll let him know you're here.” The receptionist looked up as I approached. "He's expecting…..""I know where his office is."She opened her mouth to protest, then thought better of it.I didn't stop.The hallway felt strangely familiar now, every step reminding me of my last visit. The visit where I'd walked away with questions, but today, I carried answers.I pushed the door open without knocking and Elias looked up from behind his desk.For a fleeting moment, surprise crossed his face, then it dis

  • The Lycan King's Secret Heirs    One Hundred and Twelve

    Caspian I didn't speak.I couldn't, not when the single name lying on the desk between us seemed to swallow every other thought inside my head.Elias.For days, I'd suspected him, for weeks, I'd questioned his motives and now suspicion had become something far heavier.Proof.I stared at the folder, waiting for my mind to reject it, to tell me there had been some mistake, but it never did.Instead, the investigator quietly walked around the desk and stopped beside me."I know what you're thinking."“Really?’ I tore my eyes away from the file. "Do you?""You're wondering whether this is enough.""...Is it?" I looked back at the papersInstead of answering, he opened the folder completely."We're not looking at one piece of evidence." He pulled out the first document. "We're looking at years of it."Without warning, he placed an old envelope on the desk. Its paper had yellowed with age, and the edges looked as though they'd crumble if handled too roughly."The handwriting was confirme

  • The Lycan King's Secret Heirs    One Hundred and Eleven

    Caspian The conversation refused to leave my head. No matter how hard I tried, every word Elias had spoken found its way back to me."She came back to you.""Interesting.""You're running out of time."I slammed my office door harder than I'd intended and the sound echoed through the room before silence settled once again. For what felt like the hundredth time that morning, I crossed the length of the office.Then I turned, walked back and turned again. Pacing had never solved a problem and it was no surprise that today wasn't any different.Every answer Elias had given had somehow managed to reveal absolutely nothing. Or maybe...I stopped beside the window. Maybe he'd revealed exactly what he'd wanted me to know.Nothing more, nothing less.I clenched my jaw as a curse bubbled in my throat, but I forced it back down anyway. I'd walked into his office believing I was finally going to corner him.Instead, he'd walked away knowing Daisy had come back to me. Knowing we'd spoken and

  • The Lycan King's Secret Heirs    One Hundred and Ten

    Caspian Finding Elias had become a game. A frustrating one at that room .Every time I thought I was close, he somehow slipped through my fingers."He just left.""I'm afraid you missed him.""His meeting was canceled.""I haven't seen him today."Those were the responses that came from different faces and different voices, but they all had the same answer.By the fourth day, I stopped believing in coincidence. Whether he knew I was looking for him or not, the result remained the same.I never found him. So I changed my approach. Instead of chasing him, I made him come to me.His office was exactly as I remembered it. Ordeky and quiet, everything sat precisely where it belonged, from the neatly arranged files on his desk to the books lining the shelves behind him.Nothing about the room felt personal.It was a place built for conversations where one person always left knowing less than the other.I lowered myself into one of the chairs opposite his desk and waited.I didn't pace, d

  • The Lycan King's Secret Heirs    One Hundred and Nine

    Caspian For the next couple of seconds, the only thing that registered in my ears was silence. It settled over the room so completely that I could hear Daisy's uneven breathing.I didn't look at Octavian, I couldn't, so my eyes stayed fixed on Daisy.She stood frozen where she was, tears clinging stubbornly to her lashes, her chest rising and falling far too quickly.“I kissed you because I was desperate.” Her words still echoed inside my head. “I thought if I could kiss someone else... maybe I'd stop loving him.”It should have hurt less than hearing she'd fallen for someone else. Instead, it hurt infinitely more because she'd tried. She'd genuinely tried to tear herself away from me, and she'd failed.A part of me wanted to be relieved by that, while the rest of me only wondered how much pain she'd been carrying to reach that point.Before I could say anything, Octavian spoke."You heard the wrong part."My gaze shifted to him. His expression remained calm, though I knew him we

  • The Lycan King's Secret Heirs    One Hundred and Eight

    Daisy I couldn't breathe, not because there wasn't enough air, but because every breath I took seemed to hurt.I'd spent what felt like hours sitting on the edge of my bed, yet I couldn't remember sitting down in the first place.My thoughts refused to stay still and every single one of them led back to him."Please don't decide I'm guilty before you hear me."I squeezed my eyes shut.“Stop.” I willed my mind to let the memory die, but the more I tried, the harder they all came rushing by. "Have you been lying to me?" I had asked, and even till now, his answer was still shocking. "Yes.""No..." I whispered into the empty room.The memory refused to fade and this time, it wasn't just his answer, it was his face too. I'd expected guilt, I'd expected panic and I'd expected excuses. Instead, he'd looked devastated, like I'd ripped something out of him.I groaned softly, pressing both palms against my temples.Why? Why hadn't he looked guilty? Why had he looked broken?A fresh wave of

  • The Lycan King's Secret Heirs    Seventy Seven

    Caspian I had been awake for nearly ten minutes and Daisy had absolutely no idea. I kept my eyes closed and my breathing even, listening to the soft rustle of sheets every time she shifted beside me.It started off with silence at first, then more silence and then the unmistakable feeling of bei

  • The Lycan King's Secret Heirs    Seventy Five

    Daisy The entire walk to our room felt like walking beside a thunderstorm. Caspian didn't say another word after his question, not one, which somehow felt worse.The silence stretched all the way through the corridors, up the stairs, and into the bedroom itself.The second the door shut behind u

  • The Lycan King's Secret Heirs    Seventy One

    Daisy My hands wouldn't stop shaking. No matter how tightly I gripped the letter, no matter how many times I reread the same lines, the words refused to change.I stared at them again, then again and again, as if repetition might somehow produce a miracle.It didn't.Instead, the ink remained ex

  • The Lycan King's Secret Heirs    Seventy

    Daisy The longer Caspian remained downstairs, the worse my imagination became.It had started as concern, then concern became anxiety, then anxiety became a full-blown disaster spiraling through my head at alarming speed.I paced the length of the bedroom for nearly twenty minutes before finall

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