The Lost Lycan King

Chapter 8 - Caught in the Act

Cillian POV

iIt wasn't until Anya's brothers came to stay, that things came to a head. Naturally, Anya was as miserable as I was in our unhappy marriage and had invited her twin brothers, Maximus and Ezra, to stay at the pack house for some company. I was polite to them, but mostly stayed out of their way, just like I did with Anya. One night, I had snuck into my office at around 2am to meet Silver, assuming that everyone in the pack house would be asleep. I sat on my swivel chair with Silver straddling me, our bodies writhing against each other. As I tilted my head back in ecstasy, the door floor open with a bang. To my horror, in walked Anya's brothers, Maximus and Ezra.

"Get out" snarled Maximus, looking at Silver with pure loathing on his face. Silver hurriedly climbed off me, grabbing her discarded clothes off the floor and scurrying out of the room. I grabbed my clothes too, frantically trying to put them back on to cover myself up.

Ezra marched over to me and grabbed me by the throat, pulling me into a standing position.

"You disgust me" he spat, his face inches from my own.

I stared at him, my pulse pounding in my ears, I had nothing to say to him, no excuse for my behaviour.

"Give me one reason why I shouldn't kill you right now" he snapped, his eyes turning black as his wolf pushed to the surface. I desperately tried to think of something to say, but my mind had gone blank and my wolf was staying quiet too. He couldn’t kill be surely? But as I stood there naked and ashamed and saw the anger in his eyes, I truly believed he might.

"We cant kill him" said Maximus, walking over to Ezra and placing his hand on his shoulder. Ezra closed his eyes and sighed, he shoved me back into my chair and began pacing up and down the room. I hurriedly threw some trousers and a t shirt on, to try and gain a slight bit of my dignity back.

"You don't deserve Anya. We should never have brought her here" said Maximus, glowering at me.

For a brief moment, I wondered if my marriage to Anya might be over and that I could then be with Silver. I felt a glimmer of hope in the pit of my stomach, maybe there could be a good outcome from this after all. I tried hard to keep my face neutral and impassive, they really would kill me if they thought I was pleased at their sister leaving.

"Do you really think we re going to Ally ourselves with the blood moon pack after this?" Snarled Ezra.

My heart lurched painfully in my chest, the glimmer of hope dissipating as quickly as it had arrived. s**t. I hadn't even thought of that. I had been so focused on Silver, that id forgot the reason why I'd been made to marry Anya in the first place. The pack needed strong allies to keep us safe from the vampires. Silver was a witch and whilst she had a coven, the covens notoriously wouldn’t fight in battles unless it involved witches. They wouldn’t help us to defend against vampires if it came to a fight. I had only been Alpha for a month and it appeared that I not only had messed up the ally deal, but had now made enemies with one of the largest packs.

"If Anya wasn't pregnant, we would be taking her straight back to the full moon pack" snapped Maximus. Ezra slammed his hands down on the table and let out a loud growl. I felt suddenly sick. Pregnant?

"What?" I stammered, feeling the colour drain from my face, I felt like I was going to pass out.

"She's pregnant and you have been sleeping with other people!" Roared Ezra, marching back over to me and grabbing me by my t shirt. He hurled me up and threw me against the wall. I landed on the ground with a thud. I deserved this.

"That girl needs to leave" said Maximus

"Yes" I replied, still lying on the floor, I felt like if I sat up I would vomit. I knew he was talking about Silver and I felt despair settle in the bottom of my stomach. I had no choice, I would have to send Silver away. My brain scrambled for some thread of hope that I could somehow hide Silver in the pack house and continue to see her, but I knew it was futile. If the twins caught me cheating again, they really would kill me and I would put the whole pack in danger of attack. I thought back to my wedding night and the pitiful attempt at s*x that I’d had with Anya. How could I have gotten her pregnant? I'd only slept with her once and it was awful. For the first time, I actually felt sorry for Anya. She had been married to a stranger who didn’t care about her, who had only touched her once and now she was pregnant and stuck here.

Ezra walked over and picked me up off the floor, bringing his face close to mine, I held my breath, unsure what he was going to do next.

"My pack is not allied to yours" he snarled.

"But we had an agreement" I stammered, bracing myself in case he threw me at the wall again. I needed to keep the agreement with the full moon pack, otherwise my marriage to Anya had been for nothing.

"No we didn't. We have split the full moon pack in half. I am now the Alpha of the Half moon pack and I have no agreement with you"

I glanced up at Maximus, who nodded in agreement.

"The agreement was with the Full moon pack and that still stands, but the half moon pack made no such agreement" sighed Maximus as he sat down in my chair.

I had wondered how the twins were going to run the Full moon pack. As identical twins, they both had equal claim as Alpha and it wasn’t unheard of in werewolf territory for twins to rule together. I suppose it made sense to split the pack as ir was so large and each be Alpha of their own halves. Although it now looked like only one of these halves would be allied to my pack and even that deal could potentially disappear. If I hadn’t slept with Silver, then both of the packs would be allied to us. I had really messed up, I had endangered my entire pack over a girl. I mean, I know she was a super hot girl, but even so.

“I want to be very clear about one thing” growled Maximus, walking over and standing next to his brother so both of their faces were just inches from my own “the agreement stands because my sister is in this pick. If you hurt a hair on her head, either physically or emotionally, I will take her and your child from this pack and we will be sworn enemies. Do you understand?”

I gulped and nodded. It looked like me and Anya were together for the long run.

"If I find out you are treating my sister badly again, I will kill you" snarled Ezra, his eyes turning black again. I nodded and he threw me back onto the floor. I believed him.

"I won't stop him next time" snapped Maximus, as they stomped out of the room and slammed the door behind them. I lay on the floor for a long time contemplating my life. I was going to be a dad. I needed to step up for the sake of my baby.

I dreaded going for breakfast the next morning, but the twins ignored me and acted like nothing had happened. Silver was no where to be found. I sat down next to Anya and smiled at her nervously.

"Good morning" I said. She glanced up at me, looking surprised. I sniffed the air and now that I was paying attention, I could tell that her smell had altered slightly, there was definitely some of my own scent mingled with hers. My pup. It’s instinctual in wolves to care for their pups and I knew I needed to fix things between Anya and I so that I could be a good dad to my pup.

"Hi" she replied, smiling at me sweetly. I was slightly shocked that she wasn’t angrier with me, did she even know about Silver? How much had she noticed and what had her brothers told her?

“I wondered if you wanted to go for a walk around the packlands today, I could show you around” I said nervously, half expecting her to tell me to get lost. But instead, her face lit up and she placed her hand on my thigh under the table. My heart gave a little jolt and I couldn’t help but notice just how beautiful Anya really was. How had I not noticed this before?

“I would love that” she said, grinning. I looked into her eyes and saw her looking at me hopefully. This was probably the most attention I'd paid her in the last few weeks. I'd been such an i***t. She was my Luna and the mother of my child, I needed to make this work.