The Lycan King and His Dark Temptation by Luna Nova

Chapter 581

---- realize shes missing any second," the other one ordered, and they started lifting me.

Out of pure survival instinctthe same way I had once fought to protect myself in the pastI raked my nails across his face, aiming for his eyes, carving deep gashes into his skin.

Aaahh!" "You idiot, scream louder so everyone knows were here!" "That bitch clawed my whole damn face!" Enraged, he struck me across the cheek so hard that blood spilled from my mouth, dizziness spinning my world.

The back of my head throbbed from the earlier impact, a hot trickle of blood sliding down my neck, soaking into the collar of my dress.

They hoisted me up between the two of them, and no matter how much I thrashed, I was no match for their strength.

Even in my desperation, I searched for that strange power inside me the energy that had exploded in my worst moments of despair.

But nothing came.

Just like back thenwhen I needed it most and it failed me while I was abused in the sanatorium.

I didnt know where they were taking me.

nocturnal creatures

The shadows thinned.

We reached a clearing.

of a river

register it before they threw me onto the ground like asack of

I whimpered against the filthy gag, my swollen lips

of them said, and footsteps approached where my face was pressed

vision, and then a rough hand

of nausea through me, but I swallowed it down, forcing my eyes shut to stop

still tried to raise them, desperate to strike, to do somethingthough

"Hello, Duchess.

meet again." Topened my eyes, and there he

head, struggling, but his iron grip

"Thats right, its me.

you remember,"

was himthe laborer who had tried to intimidate