The 5-time Rejected Gamma & the Lycan King novel Chapter 230

Before Lucianne could protest, Ken smiled wider and said, “It was a joke, Lucy. Lighten up. Go help your mother. She’s in the living room arranging the cookie jars.”

Lucianne was not going to leave until he did. She knew Ken. In her schooling years, guys have come over to the packhouse for tutoring sessions since she did well in science and mathematics, and Ken was strict with all of them even though Lucianne assured him that they were just classmates, nothing more. Now, Ken was going to meet her fiancé. There was no telling how he would behave when he met Xandar.

Xandar, Juan and Hale were waiting patientlybehind the father-and-daughter pair, being careful not to interrupt them. They heard the last part of the conversation, which did not ease Xandar’s anxiety at all. Juan went to his father first, and the two shook hands like formal acquaintances rather than embrace each other like father and son. Ken then hit Juan at the back of his head with his palm, as if it was for disobeying him.

Juan knew exactly what that was for. Ken had been complaining non-stop about Juan giving Xandar his blessing to propose to Lucianne BEFORE Ken gave his own. And Ken didn’t even want to get started on the fact that Lucianne was already marked BEFORE he met the idiot who did it!

When Janice ran out of questions to ask after two hours, Lucianne talked animatedly about her dates with Xandar. She only told Ken and Janice overtexts and short mind-links before, so she was  elaborating further now. The sight of their adopted daughter glowing when she mentioned that Xandar bought her all those books made Janice smile wider, and made Ken scowl less. And when Lucianne got out her phone to show them the reading wonderland that Xandar built for her in his villa, the ice in Ken’s heart thawed a little more.

When Ken asked about their infiltration in Wu Bi Corp, Lucianne, Xandar, Juan and Hale all knew they were walking on eggshells from here. Juan and Lucianne agreed to share the details with their parents face-to-face, and they were to do it together. Since Ken was softest to Lucianne, she took the lead. Lucianne tried to water down the severity of her situation but to no avail.

She couldn’t lhe about it since Ken would just see right through her. And Ken threw sharp glares at Xandar and Juan when Lucianne reached the part of the rogues pinning her to the wall before Jake tried to mark her by force. Janice had to hold her mate’s hand when Lucianne reached the part of the Oleander.

Lucianne tried to lighten the mood by speaking cheerfully about how the Queen’s Authority could be emitted in her human form but was strongest when she brought her animal forward to combine its strength with her own. But even the mention of the Queen’s Authority didn’t seem to make Ken any less enraged. If looks could kill, Xandar and Juan would have died right then and there. « When Lucianne finished the story, even she held her breath to wait for Ken to say something.