The Lycan King and His Dark Temptation by Luna Nova

Chapter 166

---- VALERIA I started patting down my clothesthis couldnt be happening.

I couldnt have lost it during the fight, or worse, when I recklessly chased after those vampires.

Ilooked around the ground in desperation, and then I sawit, a few feet away from where I stood.

The heart no longer had the shape of a ruby; it had melted into a dark pool, the same color as the lagoonconcentrated, powerful blood.

Ipushed myself up with trembling legs, battered and on the brink of collapse, holding on purely through adrenaline and the will to survive.

I knelt before that blood and beggedsomething I had never done before watching my mate fight like a beast against our enemy, trying to keep him from reaching us.

"Please, my ancestors, I beg you, Juno, mother, please.

Gabrielle, I summon you, powerful Selenia, help me in this moment of need, help me!" The words poured from my heart as tears and drops of my blood fell onto the small pool forming before me.

surface began to bubble,

here, Selenia Gabrielle, I call you,

daughter Valeria needs

now, Gabrielle, now!" At some point, I switched languages, speaking in the ancient tongue of the altars, the words flowing into

my eyes and recited the ancestral chantmy prayers, over

all Ihad left, and I clung to hope with tooth and

eyes when I

awe to see what had

the shape of a woman, sculpted from the blood, as if that

intensely,

strange, her

to ask, anda smile appeared on those

toward the fight, leaving me there,

the ground before