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.

to bubble, as if simmering

Gabrielle, I call you, in this hour of

your daughter Valeria needs

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

recited the ancestral chantmy prayers,

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

my tear-filled eyes when I

up in awe to see what had formed from the

shape of a woman, sculpted from the blood, as if that vital liquid was solidifying into a human

me intensely, gently caressing my

felt strange, her features

ask, anda smile appeared

then walked toward the fight, leaving me

down at the ground before