The Lycan King and His Dark Temptation by Luna Nova

Chapter 457

---- Then she kept piling on tasks, pushing him along like a strict drill sergeant.

My grumpy, silver-haired mate glared at her with icy ---- hostility.

But when he looked at me, I smiledand he relaxed alittle.

Tf you harm my woman, !ll do the same to you as Im about to do to that chicken.

Dont forget it.

His low warning made my stomach flip.

Mérida shouted after him, cursing him for being rude, for disrespecting his elders.

T laughed, but a pang of nostalgia hit my chest.

I swallowed the lump in my throat and stood, determined to keep myself busy.

How can I help? I asked when she reentered the house.

Come, come, dear, help me peel the potatoes for the stew.

her

rustic, but tidy everything

boy to work scrubbing the potsmy hands cant handle

the sack, she said, handing me a pot and

I spent the next while peeling potatoes,

real grandmother had looked

sneak away from Grandmother Gabrielles magic lessons to secretly

asked a few

my relationship with Silas but she didnt press too much, and

The afternoon passed.

for the first time since coming to this world, I felt

a breakbefore

dripping from

heaved, the thick stench of death

few feet awaythe

that had rolled to rest at

in his hand still dripped crimson, pooling onto

dimly lit hall

Clan Vlad leader of the vampire

by his own