The Lycan Biker King's Obsession

Chapter 17

Noon arrived under a gray sky that threatened rain. The old pack training grounds looked exactly as I remembered — cold, vast, and soaked in old blood. The outdoor ice rink where I had once been publicly discarded now waited silently, silver chains still scattered across the cracked surface.

I rode behind Ryker, arms wrapped tightly around his waist. Leo was safe back at the cabin, but the memory of his scared face made my chest tight. The awakened curse hummed uneasily inside me.

Ryker killed the engine at the treeline. “You’re not going in alone.”

“I have to,” I replied. “Elias has the widow. If there’s information that can end this, I need it.”

The rogue Alphas flanked us as I stepped onto the ice alone. Elias waited near the center, the widow bound beside him. The hybrid pup sat in a carrier, its eyes already glowing with stolen power.

Rhea,” Elias said smoothly, silver-streaked hair catching the weak sunlight. “You came. Wise choice.”

“Talk,” I replied coldly. “What do you know about the hybrid and the curse?”

Elias smiled, but it didn’t reach his eyes. “The hybrid wasn’t just made from your stolen blood and Ryker’s curse. It was designed as a vessel — a way to transfer the full power of the ancient curse into a controllable bloodline. Darius and the widow planned to use it to bind you permanently and drain Ryker until he became nothing more than a rabid beast.”

He gestured at the widow. “She knows the ritual’s final step. Give me the boy and your loyalty, and I’ll extract the information. I can give you and Leo a safe pack. No more running. No more five males fighting over you like wolves over meat.”

Ryker’s low growl carried across the ice. The rogue Alphas shifted restlessly at the treeline, their eyes glowing.

I kept my voice steady. “And what do you want in return?”

Elias stepped closer, his gaze darkening with long-hidden hunger. “You. As my Luna. The curse power you awakened is rare. With my guidance, you could rule instead of being torn apart by obsession. The rogue Alphas and Ryker are too volatile. They will break you eventually.”

His words were tempting in their simplicity — stability, safety, an end to the constant pull between five dangerous males. But I saw the same possessive hunger in his eyes that I saw in the others.

Before I could respond, the widow made a muffled sound behind her gag. Elias removed it.

She spat blood and laughed weakly. “He’s lying, Surgeon. Elias helped us create the hybrid. He wants the curse for himself. He’s been waiting for you to awaken it so he could take it from you.”

Something inside me snapped.

Elias’s face hardened. “Silence.”

The truth hit like ice water. Elias wasn’t a savior. He was another player in a longer game.

Suddenly everything was chaos. Ryker and the rogue Alphas charged onto the ice. The hybrid broke free, lunging straight toward where Leo’s scent still lingered faintly from earlier. Elias fought back with surprising strength, older Alpha power flaring. “Rhea, don’t be a fool! I can give you control!”

I could no longer recognized the faces around me.

Power — ancient, uncontrollable, and terrifying — flooded every cell in my body. My eyes burned gold. The world narrowed to pure instinct. Threats. Protect the child.

Darius, who had been watching from the side, staggered back in horror. “Her eyes! She’s fully awakened it! Stop her before she kills us all!”

Ryker rushed forward. “Rhea! It’s me... Ryker! Come back to me!”

One of the rogue Alphas — Jax — tried to grab me from behind to hold me down. “Rhea, snap out of it!”

With a snarl, I flung him across the rink. He crashed into the boards with a sickening crunch, wood splintering around him.

The curse raged. I moved like a storm of red energy. Enforcers who approached were thrown violently aside. My glowing scalpel slashed through the air, arcs of power cutting deep gashes into anyone who got too close. Darius barely dodged a blast that left a smoking crater where he had stood.

“Rhea!” Ryker roared again, grabbing my shoulders. “Look at me! Fight it! Leo needs you!”

I shoved him hard. He slid back across the ice but refused to fall, blood trickling from his lip.

Kai tried next, approaching carefully. “Rhea — the pup is blood. Our brother’s nephew!”

I flung him too. He crashed into Zane, both hitting the ice hard.

The power was consuming me. Every use made the gold in my eyes burn brighter, but it was draining me rapidly. I could barely feel my own body.

Draco, seeing the danger, suddenly turned and ran toward the edge of the rink. He scooped up Leo — who had been brought closer by a prospect during the chaos — and rushed forward with the boy in his arms.

“Rhea!” Draco shouted, voice urgent. “Your son! Leo needs his mother!”

The moment Leo’s small, terrified voice reached me ...“Mommy…?” the storm inside me cracked.

The gold in my eyes flickered violently.

I stumbled. The curse recoiled with brutal force. Pain lanced through my chest like fire. My knees buckled. The scalpel fell from my fingers, clattering onto the ice.

Ryker caught me before I collapsed completely, pulling me and Leo into his strong arms. “That’s it. Come back to me, my queen.”

The rogue Alphas gathered around us, battered and bleeding from what I had done. Jax limped closer, Kai and Zane pushing to their feet despite the injuries I had caused them.

I gasped, vision blurring as the gold faded from my eyes. “I… I didn’t recognize any of you,” I whispered hoarsely. Tears burned my eyes. “I hurt you…”

Leo clung to my neck, crying softly. “Mommy…”

Ryker held us both tighter, his forehead pressed to mine. “You saved him. That’s all that matters right now.”

But the cost was devastating. The awakened curse was no longer just a weapon.

It was becoming a danger to everyone I cared about including the five powerful males who were willing to bleed for me.

Darius, still on the ground, laughed weakly. “You see? The power will destroy you all.”

Elias watched from the sidelines with cold, calculating eyes.

Exhaustion crashed over me like a tidal wave. My body trembled uncontrollably. The world tilted.

I passed out in Ryker’s arms, the last thing I heard being Leo’s soft voice calling for me and the low, protective growls of the Alphas surrounding us.