The Lycan King and His Dark Temptation by Luna Nova

---- She left the witch at the edge, then walked out through the front like she was just going for a stroll. One of the patrolling warriors approached and asked if everything was okay. Celia kept up her act, saying she was just out looking for her servant. But when she turned around, the soldier's whispered words made her blood run cold. "You mean the same servant who's bleeding out under your tent?" "What?" She turned pale, facing him.

She recognized him-the man who had spoken against the vampire and to whom the Lord had tossed a beheaded corpse. He stared deeply into her. Celia was shaking with fear... he knew. This soldier knew about her crime. "I don't know what you're talking about... stop being insolent!" "I'm talking about that, Miss," he said, pointing toward a spot in the grass. ---- The she-wolf followed his finger and instantly turned pale.

hide it from the Lord and the Beta," he said suddenly,

imagined hearing something so valuable during his patrol. So in the darkness, he carried the witch's barely alive body. Celia stayed behind and even made sure she was seen by some soldiers as she "searched" for her slave. ---- ceed "That spoiled brat couldn't even finish the

her-and who would care about a simple witch anyway? Only, that opportunist had no idea he was being watched in the dark. Someone had witnessed his crime. Rousse followed in silence. Meridiana had recognized the girl's magical

a threatening shadow move behind him. "Identify yourself..." He