The Lycan King and His Dark Temptation by Luna Nova

Chapter 71

---- VALERIA Iclose the bathroom door and hear Aldric sighing in frustration outside.

Eventually, he leaves and lets me be alone.

He entered the room on the second floor, climbing through the window from the forest in his lycan form.

Thear him searching for clothes and changing.

The door to the room opens and closes.

He's going to settle matters with the Alpha's family, who will no longer be the Alpha of this pack.

Tbegin removing my wet clothes, processing everything that happened.

I swallow the knot in my throat at the thought of Edward and close my eyes in pain, holding his memory deep in my chest.

My hands reach into the inner pocket of my dress, and this is the main reason I pushed Aldric away.

I felt the power of the relic the moment I opened my eyes again and hid it from him.

I didn't remember things clearly enough to explain if he asked.

My mind is full of blanks, just like every time I woke up from those strange episodes, but now there was a witnessCeline.

Fear gripped me.

Fear of what I was becoming, fear of knowing the truth.

Would that Alpha now blackmail me? Would she be my enemy or my ally? I got my answer soon enough.

of the bathroom, now in dry clothes, I found her slipping through

back from

Celine...

okay, she said, breathing with relief as she lingered

dont have much

don't want His Highness to sense me

The relic...

still have

know where you hid

Here.

my new dress and placed

Thank the Goddess.

died of a heart attack today, I don't think

need to

the King the truth, even if

bodies disappearedthere's no evidence you did

die claiming

moment, I interrupted her, not even surprised anymore to know I had killed again without even

T see...

Its better that way.

asks, youll say you reached the basement because the

was nearby, and when you called out that youd found an altar,

fear of the enemies, and you

everything will be

handle the rest, she added seriously, and I

started to leave, but I grabbed her arm