I Bought the exiled king (by Natalie Winter) novel Chapter 148

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Chapter 148

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And the rage I had fought so hard to keep contained, rose up in them again.

The glow surged again, brighter, angrier. “Go,” he growled, and that single word made his voice rumble deep

in his stomach.

For a second I thought I was not talking to the man I had known all this time. Instead, I was speaking to a complete stranger.

It looked like the sanity was being slowly stripped off of his eyes, leaving behind just rage.

He was breathing heavily, the sound of his breaths echoing in the small cell. The chains were already straining under his pull and most of the nails bolted to the walls and ground looked like they would come off any second.

“I am going to kill them all” He promised, voice laced with venom.

“No, you are not a killer, Killian.” I tried to reason him but his eyes turned into slits, and he leveled his stare at

1. me.

“You can’t be here when they come. You can’t see me like that.”

Like what? I wanted to ask.

But deep down I knew it was something terrifying if he didn’t want me to see it.

“No!” The word ripped from me before I could stop it.

“I’m not leaving you, not again. You don’t understand–up there, it’s chaos. Martin’s killing people. The King -he’s dying.” My voice broke.

“I…I can’t lose you, not again”

I said but he said stonily.

“I am not dying before killing every single one of them.”

He said again as he curled his fingers into fists and threw a punch at the adjacent wall. His knuckles were bloody and a small hole appeared in that stone cold wall.

I could only assume how powerful he was and how he had been holding back for so long.

Killian was the exiled heir and I recalled how Martin mocked him earlier for being sweet and weak. But what if Killian was the strongest of them all, stronger than any Lycan had ever been.

“You are bleeding, Killian. We have to-” I began but he shook his head and blinked rapidly, I furrowed my brows to see his eyes that had gone all red return to normal.

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And for a second I wondered what was going on.

“Kilian are you okay?” I rasped and he gritted his teeth.

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“Not for long. The curse is taking its effect. We don’t have time.”

“What? What does that mean?” I asked, heart hammering loudly.

“I don’t have time to explain. Just know that I cant stay like this for long. You have to go up and get all your loved ones safe. Drag them back to the temple if you want. This castle wont hold up for long.”

He was explaining but fear was making me unable to understand where he was going with this.

“Why are you talking like this? What is going to happen?” I asked and he suddenly threw his head back, while his hands strained against the chains once again.

Fresh tears trickled out of my eyes as I cried out his name.

“Killian!”

That low guttural sound was back but I couldn’t understand what was going on with him.

I wished I could do something to touch him, to stop whatever was hurting him.

His head fell forward again, his hair blocking my view of his eyes.

I felt miserable to just stand there and helplessly cry out his name.

But his eyes opened briefly and he opened his mouth to speak.

“You’re the only one who can fix this. Do as I say if you want to see me alive.”

He said and I was taken aback by his tone of finality. Of course, I wanted to see him alive. I wanted to spend my life with him.

I shook my head violently, strands of hair sticking to my damp cheeks. I pressed closer to the bars, clutching them until the skin of my palms stung. “Do you have any idea what I’ve been through just to find you? Do you know what it’s been like not knowing if you were dead? And now you expect me to just–leave?”

He exhaled hard, the chain tugging at his wrists as he shifted. “If you stay, you’ll get caught. And if they catch you with me, it’s over–for both of us.”

“I don’t care,” I spat, hot tears spilling over. The sound of chaos from above….the shouts, the clash of steel, the screams, all of it felt muffled compared to the hammering of my heart.

“If they throw us both in here, at least I’ll be with you. I can’t just… I can’t go back up there alone, not after-” My voice broke. “Not after everything.”

His face softened. The hard angles of command slipped, and for a heartbeat I saw the Killian who had teased. me about my awful punches, who had dragged me from exhaustion into stubborn strength, who had held me when I thought I was crumbling to pieces.

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