The Lycan King novel Chapter 62

Nikolai

"So what have you decided?" Max asked me the second he entered my office.

I gritted my teeth. I hated his plan. I hated it with every fibre of my being. I have made promises to Ava. Promises that I will have to break to go through with the plan.

"You know it's the only way." He looked at me.

I know it. And it was the best way too. The rest were too dangerous. But this will hurt Ava in a totally different manner, it will hurt her in ways he won't even be able to fathom. It can even break her. I'm not sure how strong she is. I know her wolf has given her immense strength. But she will have to push her wolf back in for this. She will have to look like an omega. Weak and helpless. Not the Alpha female she is slowly growing into. This can backtrack her growth as well.

"I won't do it." I told firmly, meeting his eyes head on.

"Talia will be going through the same thing. Something much,?much?worse." He narrowed his eyes at me.

"I said no." My voice was quiet but angry. I didn't like it when people questioned my decisions. My pack new it. No one question the Alpha.

But Max is not the part of my pack.

Regardless, he is my elder brother, for which, I respect him.

"Do not tell me to do something you would never do yourself,?Alpha." He mocked.

"I am not the same little brother you left behind, Maximilian. I will not tolerated disrespect." I growled, giving him a fair warning.

I am not the same little brother who used to follow him around the pack and used to wish to be like him in everything. I am my own person now. Strong and independent. I don't?need?him anymore.

"I left behind?" His voice rose. "Where were you when the entire fucking pack disrespected me? Because as far as I know, a?little brother?would have backed me up."

"What could have I done?" My hands slammed against the desk as I stood up from my seat in anger. "If I had backed you up, maybe you would have become the Alpha. But of whom? Wolves who didn't like you?" I growled.

I remember the day like it was yesterday.

More rogues had joined us so we decided to officially become a pack. And we needed an Alpha. A strong one at that because the other packs would surely not go easy on us.

The responsibility came on the Volkov family. Because it was mom who took everyone in and helped them. And even after she was gone, it was because of her goodwill that people came to us for help.

The strongest stepped up to become the Alpha. It included me, Max and a couple of others from the pack. It was a fight till death or submission.

Max and I remained till the last. We made a deal that whoever will loose shall show his neck and submit. Brothers will not kill brothers. That's not how mom raised us.

Max was older and stronger.

He won, I showed my neck.

But the pack opposed.

Max was a vampire. And while the Vampire- Werewolf Peace Treaty was signed, no one would tolerate a vampire leading a pack of wolves.

The pack openly showed their resentment towards Max.

I directly saw Max at Volkov Corps. after that. He had left after the fiasco. He had given in to his bloodlust and gone rogue.

He stood up too, banging his hands on the table, making it snap. "Why the fuck do you expect me to do this then? For a pack who doesn't like me?" He snarled, his eyes flashing red. "You know what? Fuck you, Nikolai!" He yelled. "You were always the spineless little bitch and you still are. I'm out of here."

Before he could storm off, I punched him in the face, making him stumble back.

"Yes. Beat up people when you know you are wrong, as always. Tell me. Why the fuck is Adrik still alive and living like a goddamn king and you lead a pack of rogues? Tell me why the fuck is Emilio still alive?" He snarled.

I punched him again. "Shut up." I growled, my anger spiking with every word that came out of his mouth.

He knows nothing!

I went to punch him again but he ducked and moved away from me. I turned around to punch him again.

"Anyone who would have touched my woman without her permission would be dead by now. Just like Lionel fucking Preston is." He spat the blood on the floor. "I crashed his fucking mansion and killed all the fucking hundred something vampires by myself. And that's only because he tried to kidnap my mate." He glared at me. "Emilio?raped?yours. For years."

I loud growl tore through my throat and I lunged at him in blind fury, making both of us go fall out of the window that was directly behind him.

We both landed in the front yard, with me on top of him.

I punched him. "You know nothing." I punched him again.

He caught my hand and pushed me off him, making me land a few feet away from him.

"Grow up and be a?man,?Nikolai." He snarled. "Get over your daddy issues."

I ran to him and lunged, shifting into my wolf mid-air but landed on the ground. Max was on my back, holding my neck in a choke hold.

I growled and bit his side, flinging him off me and a good few feet away. He scraped against the rough ground before he hit a tree.

He grunted in pain.

"What the hell is goin—" Dimitri came running but paused when he saw us.

"Stay out of this Dimitri." Max wiped the blood that had dribbled out of his mouth with the back of his hand. "This is long over due."

With a snarl, he charged towards me.