The Lycan King and His Dark Temptation by Luna Nova

Chapter 785

---- 422, THE MOST POWERFUL DUCHY, NARRATOR The news of Duke Thesios death during a hunt, supposedly devoured by wild wolves, spread like wildfire across the neighboring duchies and beyond.

Greedy eyes immediately turned toward the poor widow, left with little support from Thesios army but with an abundance of gold and land ripe for the taking.

It was like stealing candy from a childshe hadn't even had time to conceive an heir, so the crown wouldnt interfere, no matter how much she protested.

Ovidio Pensival wasted no time reaching out to Thesios general, enticing him with all kinds of promises to sway him to his side.

The man was fairly new, having only recently risen to his position after the previous generals death.

His loyalty lay more with money than with the woman who had climbed into his former masters bed.

within, with the general himself opening the city walls for Ovidio

didnt realize

had warned Elliot the night before Thesios execution, and by then, every hidden alley, tavern, and crevice

morning, the cemetery behind the

the earth still fresh, his widow mourning in anguish, when the sharp neighing of horses

live!" The general, sporting a thick mustache, dismounted from his dappled horse, striding forward

a

gaze locked onto Brenda, who "trembled" in

This is treason! How dare you