The Lycan King's Secret Baby (Freya and Jaxon)

Chapter 25

Jaxon held me until I had calmed down. I wasn’t sure how long that took but by the time I finally left his embrace, Cressida was nowhere to be found and it was jut Kiara and the doctor. I felt spent and it felt like all the energy had been leeched out of me and I was nothing but a walking shell of myself.

My headache had returned although not in the same capacity as earlier and I felt weirdly nauseous. I assumed it was because of how much I had cried. I turned to my daughter and opened my arms for her and she wasted no time in leaping into my arms. I grunted from the force of her weight but I still held her close.

“Are you okay?” she asked with a little sniffle and I couldn’t help but feel bad at how worried she must have been to see me pass out like that.

“I am perfectly fine.” I assured her and then as if on cue my eyes met the doctor and she had an expression on her face that had my–hackles rising. I pulled back from Kiara and brushed her hair out of her face. “Why don’t you go wait for me in your room? I’ll be right there.”

She hesitated as if she wanted to say not but then she nodded and walked right out. Jaxon was staring at me in concern and confusion but I ignored him. Once Kiara was out, I turned to the doctor. She seemed to understand my silent cue because she cleared her throat and stood to her feet.

“I noticed something when I was looking over you,” she began slowly as if she was unsure of what to say. “I don’t even know how to explain it because I have never seen it before in my life but I think you’re nesting because you’re about to shift.”

I was utterly confused because I had never heard the term nesting in my life and also because I didn’t think it was possible for me to shift at twenty two. I had heard of late shifters at eighteen but nothing above that. Shifting late was very dangerous and had the capacities to kill you. I turned to Jaxon but he didn’t look as confused as I did. If anything, he looked a little terrified and I had a feeling he knew what nesting was.

“What’s nesting?” I asked more to him than to the doctor and she knew that because she stayed silent.

“It’s a lycan term,” he began slowly. “Typically when nesting, a female is pregnant and trying to find a suitable place to deliver. A place that she feels warm and protected if that makes any sense. I’ve never heard of a wolf nesting and much less when they want to shift. Pam, are you sure she’s nesting?”

Pam- the doctor sighed. “That’s the only explanation I could find. I think internally she realizes that shifting this late could be hazardous and she’s trying to feel safe. I don’t really understand it either but from the tests I ran, that’s what I saw Her blood pressure is going up and her temperature is sky high. Her bones are brittle and they’re going to start breaking anytime soon.”

I knew she wasn’t trying to scare me but the more she spoke, the more terrified I got. I wanted to ask if there was a way to stop it. I wanted to remain wolf less. It was a better option than dying due to shifting so late in life.

“Can it be stopped?” Jaxon asked voicing my fears and Pam gave him a sympathetic look and a soft smile. “What can we do to make it easier for her?”

“The best you can do is wait it out. I’ll be here the entire time to offer medical assistance the best I can but it is going to be painful and brutal to watch. My advice is that she is taken somewhere

spacious and warm and away from people. We don’t hope for anything bad to happen but we always have to be prepared.”

Jaxon was quiet and immobile for a full minute and then as if a switch was flipped in him, he started to move. He picked me up

up and I wanted to protest but I fell silent because I knew he was trying his best to do the right thing.

He walked right out of the room and I could see Pam following closely behind us as he walked down the stairs, and towards the basements. There were some guards at the entrance and they looked shocked to see him carrying me.

“You’re dismissed,” he told them without missing a beat. “I don’t want anyone around here until I say so. Is that clear?”

They answered immediately and dashed off as if someone lit a fire to their behind. Jaxon didn’t even wait to see if his order was being followed, he just led me through the hall and then towards a pair of double doors. They weren’t locked so he turned the knob with me still in his hands and my mouth fell open when I took in the room

in front of me.

“It belonged to my mother,” he explained as we walked in. “This is where she hested when she was pregnant.

with me.” Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.

The room was almost as large as the ball I had seen the other day. It had a massive bed that was almost twice the size of a normal bed and the floor was covered in what looked like warm grey rugs. There were large teddy

bears around the room and flower pots lined the windows. It was obvious that someone took care of the room because there was not a speck of dust to be seen.

On the drawers were rows and rows of pictures and I knew without a doubt that they were of Jaxbn’s mother. As soon as he put me down, I walked over to one and I picked it up. She was truly beautiful with pin straight black

hair, a soft smile and warm brown eyes.

“She’s beautiful,” I said softly and I turned back to Jaxon. “How did she die?”

“She was murdend,” he offered no further explanation and I knew he didn’t want to talk about it so I decided to

let the subject slide.

As I walked around the room, I couldn’t help but feel a sense of attachment to it. I tried to fight it because it was. his mother’s nest and I didn’t want to intrude but something about it felt right and I couldn’t place my finger on it. I don’t know if it was the smell of the flowers, or the warmness of the room but it felt perfect.

I was about to say just as much when I felt a searing pain go through my spine. I let out a silent scream and fell to the ground trying to rid myself of the pain. It felt like someone had taken a hot iron and dropped it directly on my spine.

“I think it’s starting.” Pam said as she rushed over to me.

She placed a warm cloth on my forehead and I didn’t even have the time to think about where she got it from, I just wanted the pain to end. It felt like an electric burn and like I was being repeatedly run over by a truck and the worst part was that it wasn’t in one particular spot. It was at my back and in my hands. It was all over my entire body and I just wanted it to stor

“Please,” I managed out, “Please, make it stop.”

I could feel Jaxon’s hands in mine as if he was trying to keep me anchored and I appreciated him for it but the last thing I needed was comfort. I needed the pain to stop and if he couldn’t do that then wanted him as far away from me as possible. I knew it was selfish but I couldn’t bring myself to care.

“Why is this happening now?” I asked in the midst of my pain because I couldn’t understand what suddenly triggered the need to shift after so many years of having a dormant wolf.

“The truth,” Pam began slowly. “When Jaxon marked you, he triggered your wolf. I’ve seen it happen a few times with wolves who are mated to lycans. It triggers something in their wolf so it can be an equal to their lycan counterpart. It’s worse for you because you have never shifted before.”

I let out a groan as another rush of pain hit me. “I’m going to die and it is all your fault.”

“You can yell at me after you’ve shifted,” Jaxon mused as he pressed a ki*s to my forehead, “I just need you to get through this.”

I was about to say something that rhymed with ‘ick‘ when another searing pain rushed through my entire body. and it felt like all my bones were being simultaneously broken. I let out an ear splitting scream and for a moment I wondered if those in the castle could hear me.

My ears rang and the pain seemed to last forever. I didn’t understand what was happening but Pam did because she sighed and looked me square in the eye.

-7

“The shifting has officially begun.”