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.

began to bubble, as

you here, Selenia Gabrielle, I call you, in this hour of

daughter Valeria

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

my eyes and recited the ancestral chantmy prayers, over and

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

tear-filled eyes when I

looked up in awe to see what had formed from

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

gazed at me intensely, gently

felt strange, her features

I dared to ask, anda smile

walked toward the

at the