The 5-time Rejected Gamma & the Lycan King
Chapter 76

Chapter 76

Xandar broke their kiss and looked teasingly into his mate’s eyes as he noted in a husky voice, “You’rewet, my love.”

Lucianne blushed and bit her lower lip before retorting meekly, “Can you blame me, my King?”

“Hmm. Wouldn’t be fair if I did that, my Queen. I was already hard long before you got wet.”

“Yeah, I know.” She teased him back. “At least I was decent enough to not mention it. You probablyinstigated your own arousal with your tendency to conjure up inappropriate thoughts, darling.”

“Oh, so I’m the indecent beast now, my dear?”

“No,” she pecked him on his lips before declaring softly, “You’re MY indecent beast.”

Tears of joy filled Xandar’s eyes at her finally accepting him as hers. He pecked a kiss on her foreheadbefore promising, “Always and forever, my little freesia. Always and forever.”

Xandar removed his hand from under her skirt and pulled it back down to cover her thighs. H e then heldher in his chest and they enjoyed the silence and the freesia scent in each other’s company. Xandar stillpecked kisses on her hair from time to time because his animal kept demanding that his human partshowered her with affection, not that his human part didn’t enjoy doing it.

Across the field where they entered from, a man in his Lycan form could only rely on his binoculars towatch the King and Queen under the tree without getting caught. The field was s o vast that his ownLycan vision wasn’t enough to see what was going on at the far edge. He sat there for hours until he sawLucianne and Xandar shifted into their animals, followed by Xandar carrying her across the field in largestrides.

The spy was up on his feet, and he quickly retraced his steps, hastily spraying a scent removingchemical to mask his scent. Not his best work in covering his tracks but that would have to do. He didn’thave time.

When he got out of the forest and reached his car, he stepped on the accelerator and let out a sigh ofrelief until he realized he forgot one detail of covering his tracks. He slapped his forehead in despair andonly hoped that the scent-removing spray was enough to not raise any suspicions. The wolf wouldn’t beable to smell it, he was sure of that. So, he prayed that the King would be too distracted by his mate topick up his uncovered tracks.

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When Xandar’s Lycan placed Lucianne’s wolf on the ground where they first entered the field, Luciannewas immediately on her guard. She sniffed the grass beneath her feet and found a scent that didn’tmatch with the rest of the trees or flowers.

‘Baby, what is it?’ He noticed her stiffened as soon as he placed her on the ground.

‘Do you smell that? A foreign scent?’

Xandar’s eyes widened in alarm as he started sniffing the air around him until Lucianne linked, ‘No,Xandar. There’s nothing in the air. Try the ground. Whatever it was, it seemed to have been down heresomewhere.’

Both their noses inched close to the grass and they followed the trail until it led them behind one of thetrees in the forest. It was just a pile of dried leaves but the odd thing was that the scent seemed to havejust disappeared at that pile.

Lucianne’s unwavering eyes studied the area around the leaves and she saw it. Xandar’s eyes locked atthe same spot at about the same time. The footprints were as large as an average Lycan’s, and it was

clear that it tried to run on as little ground as possible, landing on the protruding roots and dried leaves.But why didn’t he cover his tracks on the soil if he didn’t want to be found?

Lucianne then linked, ‘It doesn’t smell like a rogue, and it couldn’t be them either. Rogues wouldn’t haveleft us untouched.’

Xandar’s eyes were already angered. His animal’s hand reached for his mate’s white wolf protectively ashe linked, ‘Whoever it was, he’s going to be very sorry for doing this.’

‘You have to admit, this person has been sloppy.’

He wasn’t in the mood to assess the situation. He needed Lucianne to be safe. ‘Come now, Lucy. Weshould head back. Let me carry you. We’ll get there faster.’

He lifted her off the ground again before she could answer. She then muttered in mock annoyance,‘Show off.’

His mood eased a little as he scoffed, ‘Says the wolf who keeps reminding me that she’ll soon take downthe largest Lycan.’

Xandar wasn’t kidding about getting back faster. He sped through the trees and skipped over the riverlike it was second nature to him. He then dashed through the forest before emerging from the thick of it,with his villa coming into view. He placed Lucianne behind her tree and handed her her clothes beforedisappearing behind the opposite tree himself.

When they shifted back to their human form, Lucianne’s sight instinctively looked back at the way theycame from. She noticed that the footprints ended at the exact spot they just came out of. They werefollowed.

But the tracks stopped around a nearby tree, probably where the intruder shifted back to its human form.Lucianne’s eyes followed the human prints on the short grass of the clearing between the forest andXandar’s house. It seemed to lead to the neighbouring forest, where she went for a run every morning.

As she continued to think, Xandar’s arm went protectively around her waist as he kissed her forehead. “Iwon’t let anything happen to you, Lucy.”

Lucianne was brought out from her thoughts, and met his worried and angered onyx orbs. With theintention to calm her mate, Lucianne smiled and pulled herself up to kiss him before whispering, “I know,Xandar. Thank you.”

The lilac shades were returning as he kissed her nose and whispered, “I love you.”

He looked deep into her eyes, waiting for her to say that she knows. She smiled wider and blushed asshe said, “I know, Xandar. Thank you.” Just when he was going to avert his gaze, thinking that his matewas done answering, she continued, “I love you, too.”