The Lycan King and His Dark Temptation by Luna Nova

Chapter 546

---- If he ever discovered magic ran through my veins, my head would roll on the very first day.

---- Rossella proposed it as casually as discussing the weather, making me immediately suspect a trapbut then I saw it.

The dark marks on her chest.

A death sentence.

I didnt respond right away.

I looked around at this tiny cell, the place that had been my entire world for the past ten years.

The place where I had lost myself.

Where I had been forced to do so many degrading things just to survive.

Even when I had wanted to die, they hadnt allowed me to do so in peace.

Now, she was offering me a new life.

But more importantly, she was offering me my daughter.

This time, I had to protect her.

No one would take her away from me.

I stood up on unsteady legs, my body weak and frail.

She reached out to steady me, but I shoved her away in disgust.

It didnt matter that I was the filthy one and she the refined lady.

After a few seconds, I nodded.

speak clearly, but my determination

you accepted," she sighed

speak to the head of the sanatorium today to arrange your

need at least a month of training before presenting yourself at the Duchy."

I had just accepted

or my damnation.

the Duke not recognize his own wife?

supposed to be the healthy twin, the Elemental twinand I

and utterly insane laugh tore from my throat, muffled

badly I wanted to

suppose its what I deserve," she continued,

the very least, I hope it brings

here to ask you for one last

Iimmediately stopped laughing.

take my place

knows I have a twin

to the Duke who controls all those

to my feet so fast that the chains tore open fresh

to the floor as I lunged at her like

behind the gag, my eyes bulging with rage, my nails just inches from her throat, desperate to tear into her, to

Rossella didnt move.

stared at me, standing tall, dignified,

YOU TOLD FATHER I HAD MAGIC, AND BECAUSE OF YOU, I WAS LOCKED UP IN HERE LIKE

"Shes alive.

like that, it was as

her face, searching for lies in

lied to you about that

birth, and I raised her as my own daughteryours and the Dukes." My lips trembled uncontrollably as salty

thought I could never cry again, that all my self-pity had long since

I was wrong.