Chapter Sixteen

The ground shook. Montai’s howls could be heard throughout the entire palace. The hairs on his back rising as he barred back his teeth trying to hold back his fangs. His eyes only seeing red and a faint shadowy figure of Lelani before him. Faint blurred movements of her trying to get him to calm down followed by soft mumors that couldn’t be made out due to the ringing in his ears.

A brief moment of him holding his ears shaking his head trying to block all the sound. Before another roar escaped his throat followed by the smashing of the small nightstand table next to the bed.

“Montai please, calm down.”

Lelani’s voice finally broke through the madness that was filling his head. His skull felt as though it was about to burst. Eyes red and wide. “DO NOT TELL ME TO CALM DOWN. This vampire Lannister had spent more time with my wife than I have? He thinks he has the right to address you without speaking to me? He’s created a war and spilled blood because he wants you by his side. I want his esophagus dangling from my Lycan jaws. I want his body shaking on the floor from shock before it falls still and he takes his final breath. THAT’S WHAT I WANT!!”

Lelani was at a loss. She saw a different beast within Montai. A monster ready for a kill. Any kill. She saw the drool from just the thought of killing another hanging from his mouth. The heaving of his chest as he grew excited thinking about it. Montai was going mad.

She took a few steps towards him watching as he stepped back with each step she took forward. Until his back was against the wall and he was trapped with nowhere to go. Lelani went to graze the side of his cheek with the back of her hand when she noticed his flinch. Followed by a low growl in his stomach before he pulled away. A small quick pain in her chest. Like someone poking it with a needle when she heard him say don’t touch me.

Her eyebrows drawing together and she titled her head to the side confused and hurt by his response. A reaction Montai caught almost instantly. “I.. If you touch me then I won’t be mad anymore. You make my heart stop and my mind falls at ease. I don’t want that right now.”

Though she knew he meant well Lelani couldn’t grasp the point in being angry. Throwing her hands up in defeat she turned rolling her eyes as she did so. The small act sending rage through Montai once more. Running up behind her grabbing her wrist and twirling her around. His right hand grasping her left arm as he pulled her close. Their lips inches apart.

“Don’t you dare Lelani. You don’t get to do that. You don’t get to walk away and roll your eyes after everything you just told me. After everything, I just found out. I loathe this Lannister. I despise him to my core. His lust for you makes my blood boil and teeth grind. I want him dead and you tell me the only way to stop him is for you to..”

He fell silent a knot in his throat as he tried to control his anger. However, Montai could feel it. His insides churning into something different. Not the Lycan beasts but something different. A ravenous monster-like feeling inside him, and he was doing his best to contain it. His grey eyes snapping shut tightly only open to reveal completely red pupils. His fur on the back of his neck growing through slightly. Followed by the fur along his happy trail. He snapped his neck giving it a quick pop before grabbing Lelani by the neck and pushing her against the wall. One hand clutching her throat in a deadly aroused way while the other hand ran down her side.

“I want this man dead and you tell me the only way to stop him is to..” Montai couldn’t finish his sentence. Snarling as he clutched at her neck tighter. Lifting her slightly so that her feet dangled off the floor. He wasn’t trying to hurt her. If anything right at this moment he wanted to take her right here right now. Fuck her raw and never let her go. Montai was finding this new monster hard to control. Looking at her with hurt eyes clutching releasing her only enough so she didn’t have to struggle for air.

“This whole time you knew… You knew it would come to this and yet you said nothing. Came back into my life to fill the emptiness in my chest only to give me options with bleak endings. By the gods, I never knew a woman could be so wicked.”

In his final words, he released his grip on her neck dropping down to his knees. A small whimper escaping his mouth like that of a wounded puppy. Wrapping his massive arms around her small waist. Pulling her close so he could lean his head on her stomach.

“My love for you is endless Lelani. I wanted to give you a child. To give you children. I wanted you to come back to a home. A peaceful place full of wonder and hope for something better. For centuries I have waited for you. Only dreams of past memories of you were able to get me by. The faint smell of your scent. The soft sound of your voice. I promised your family I would keep you safe. Though we couldn’t save all your people we could save you. After all this time you have came back to me. You’ve caused love to grow within me every day and now… I can’t just.. There must be another way.”

This entire time Lelani had said little to nothing. Only asking him to calm down once in this entire moment they shared together. To be honest she wasn’t sure what to say. The only thing that would come to her mind was the truth, and the truth was the last thing Montai wanted to hear. So she said nothing.

Simply letting the tears collect in her eyes until she could hold them no longer. A few more blinks and the side of her cheeks were two streams of tears. Montai hugging her closely as he whimpered into his stomach. If only there was another way. For a moment she simply placed her hand on top of Montai’s head running her fingers through it delicately.

However, once moments passed she spoke in a quiet broken dry-like tone. “It has to be done.” And with that, she pushed Montai off of her. Running past him down the hallway towards the garden where she vanished along nature to cry silently to herself.