All Chapters of The Cripple and The King (Complete): Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

The house Lucien had led me towards was an old, Victorian type house. It looked like a haunted house I'd seen in movies Logan and I would watch on Spring Break. The curtains were drawn, and there were more than enough wind chimes ringing on the front doorstep. The wood looked carved out of, evidence of a hobby gone wrong. The lawn was unkempt and dry, the grass stalks sagging sadly. The porch steps were in desperate need of a fix and the whole house creaked with every gust of wind.

 "It's raining.""Again?""Yeah...again." Cindy slammed the cream blinds close and plopped on the couch next to me.

Lucien was going to be very mad at me.No, scratch that. He wouldn't be mad. He would be furious.

A few weeks after the whole Lucinda ordeal, once the pack had once again settled down, I found myself sitting in the grassy fields by Lucinda's vacated house with Jasmine, Cindy, Louis, and Everest. Lucien, along with the other buffer men of the pack, were clearing through Lucinda's house, looking for any other pieces of evidence we can use against the Rogue King...or Dhoom. I still wasn't sure what to call him.I didn't think the pack was completely off guard, especially with Tania, Wren, and Benedict in urgent care. Luckily,

Fire.That was all that I could feel. Just this burning, constant fire in my soul, charring my insides, kicking my back, the air knocking out of my lungs.It was well past midnight. Cindy was sleeping on the couch beside me. I couldn't fall asleep. The constant beeps and boops of the machines by