The Lycan King novel Chapter 69

Nikolai

"How is your ass now?" I asked Ava.

"Better. I still need to be punished twelve times." She whispered, pink tinting her cheeks.

"That you do." I agreed and then started stripping out of my clothes, getting ready for bed. I am extremely tired today.

"Really?" Her eyes widened when she saw me undoing my belt. She thought that I was really going to belt her.

Let me toy with her, I thought with a smirk.

I pulled the belt out of all the loops and gave her a hard look. "I told you, didn't I?" I folded the belt in half and slapped it on my palm.

"But-but I c-counted." She took a step back and I took a step forward.

"You didn't count the previous four." I whispered and saw her nipples tightened. She still had black smudges of smoke on her entire body. I wiped her chest and showed her my black fingers and whispered, "you're a filthy girl," I stepped forward again and her back hit the glass of the window. "You deserve a bit of punishment, don't you?"

Her eyes slid from my fingers to my grey eyes. She arched her back, making her nipples graze my naked skin. I ground my hard on in her core. "Will you let me punish you?"

"I -I," a panicked look crossed her eye and her eyes dropped to the belt. "I'm scared." Her scared eyes snapped to mine again.

All amusement left me.

I dropped the belt on the floor and held her face with my hands. "I'll never do something you don't want." I kissed her dry lips, tasting the black smoke. I didn't mind it.

"I want to take a shower." She whispered.

Nodding, I released her. Ducking her head, she scurried into the bathroom. I saw that her ass had returned back to her normal skin colour again.

Letting out a breath, I finished stripping myself and jumped in the bed, forcing myself to keep my eyes open and wait for Ava.

After what seemed like hours, she stepped out. I scrunched my eyes open, not able to fully open them in this state of tiredness. I saw her look at me before she crossed the room and stood her the balcony. Then she slowly bent down and picked up the belt. She looked at it intently, like it was a different creature.

And to my surprise, she folded it in half and then slapped it over her open palm, a lot like I had done but her palm closed at the impact like she was trying to feel it more. The next slap of the belt was a bit harsher and the smell of her arousal filled the room.

Well, fuck my life. Ava actually likes pain.

The belt slid from her fingers and fell on the floor with a thump. She jumped and then turned around to look at me. I closed my eyes instantly.

For some reason, it felt too private to watch. It was something she hadn't admitted to herself yet and she probably never will. I'm not going to force her.

I heard some rustling and I opened my eyes again. She had picked up my clothes and was walking towards the bathroom— to put them in the hamper like she did everyday— and then rounded the bed to get to her side and crawled up the bed. She slid under the covers and snuggled against my chest. Keeping my eyes closed, I put my arm around her waist and bring her closer, like I did in sleep most of the time and took a deep breathe, smelling the true smell of Ava.

She sighed. "Goodnight, Love."

Avalyn

When I woke up, Nik was already gone. I got dressed and rushed down to catch him for breakfast but later realised that the entire house was deathly silent.

"Where is everyone?" I asked April who was already cooking breakfast for me.

"Master Max And Mistress Natalia left early in the morning along with Beta Dimitri. Master Andrei and Master Mikhail left for training. And Alpha, I believe is in the office." She replied.

"Thank you so much, April." I squeezed her shoulder and rushed upstairs to his office. What the hell is going on? There is something different in the air today. Something is going on.

I entered Nik's office and saw him rub his eye as he was hunched on the desk and was drawing something.

"You came at the perfect time. I have a lot of work for you to do." He informed me.

"I'm ready." I nodded.

"About fifty vampires are coming so you need to make arrangements for them to live. Mikhail has the food delivery coming in today and you need to distribute it among everyone, giving the most nutritious food to warriors, children and pregnant women first. The vampires will be here around seven so meet me directly at the pack house at six fifty sharp along with the kids, we have to greet them and have dinner together. Take care of the dinner too. What else am I missing?" He wondered and went through a couple of drawers. "Ah yes." He took out a couple of papers. "All the information you need to make all of this work."

Smiling at his overworked state, I rounded the desk and pulled him for a kiss. "I will take care of everything, Nik. This and the pack. All you need to focus on is the war."

He smiled against my lips, "make me proud."

"Always," I whispered and smiled before I took the papers from his office and left.

I claimed one of the extra offices as mine and went through all the papers and made a list of mine own.

We have about two hundred pack members and fifty houses with an average of three people living on one house. There were ten spare houses and an average house had about three rooms. The pack house also had about ten rooms that weren't used.

I could easily ask the teens that were living in the pack house to move back with their parents so the vampires could live there together but I wanted to spread them out. I didn't trust them fully and by spreading them out, the wolves can keep an eye on them. They will also see the pack life and our hospitality and start to like it, and we will gain their loyalty once they make friends. It will be needed if we are to fight together.

I distributed the vampires around the town, some in the pack house, some in a house with a family and some in the spare houses. I made sure that there are at least two slaves in each house to take care of their needs.

Next, I called Mikhail and took all the details of the delivery and distributed the food. Then I matched it with my reports and made sure that all the houses had enough food for the duration of at least next two weeks. I mailed the details to Mikhail and told him to forward it to the wolves in-charge of the delivery.

After I was done, I popped in Nik's office and told him that I'm going to the pack house.

"Good morning, Luna." A girl in her late teens greeted me with a wide smile at the pack house.

"Good afternoon." I said and she flushed. "It's fine. It's only five past noon." I chuckled and walked in. "Are you free today?"

"I have nothing to do. Which I realise bit sad, now that I said it out loud." She said with a sheepish smile.

I laughed. "Let me make you happy then. I have lots of work and I need help. I enlist you my secretary for the day."

"Evaline Bowmen at your service, Luna." She bowed and chuckled. I liked her instantly. "But please call me Eva."

"Then you must call me Avalyn." I grinned at her and she nodded. "First task, show me the kitchen."

"Follow me." She said and walked in front of me. "Clear my path, Luna coming through." She yelled and all the teens who were yelling and running around paused and greeted me with big smiles and bowed.