The Lycan King and His Dark Temptation by Luna Nova

Chapter 233

---- Istumbled back, opening my eyes in shock and fear, trying to regain my balance, but I felt myself losing it.

Strong arms caught me, my back colliding with a firm chest, preventing my fall.

Yet, I didnt have time to recover.

Gabrielle! Quinns roar echoed, and I saw, as if in slow motion, how he held my mothers nearly unconscious body.

Blood trickled from her nose and lips, her skin as pale as a corpse.

Mom! I tried to get up.

Wait, baby, Valeria, do you feel anything? The baby? Aldric immediately embraced me, his face filled with deep concern as he touched my belly.

What happened? Tm fine, love, Im fine.

Mom...

she took the attack for me.

I pulled away from his arms to run toward Quinn, who was laying her down on the couch cushions.

Tm fine, Quinn...

Im fine, she whispered weakly, wiping the blood from the corner of her mouth with a trembling hand.

let me clean you

my dress and leaned over her,

received a small electric shock, leaving

you take the full attack? Mom, it was

couldnt let anything happen to you or the baby,

Valeria? Whats happening with Celine?

to my feet, holding

I had seen and more or less what

Gabrielle concluded after a

the vampire camp and says one of

see in her mind was confusion and her wolfs

Something is wrong...

despite having most of her

she can enter the castle now, it only means one thingZarek is letting her in, and that ancient being doesnt

what? I repeated, everyone waiting for

tension in the

puts her right in the crosshairs

figure outif they saw her enter the

enchanting her to help

her to control that powerful vampire, Quinn concluded, his voice filled with

to go

never have let her

from my mother to Aldric, emotions warring in