The Lycan King and His Dark Temptation by Luna Nova

---- 244, INFILTRATING THE ENEMY NARRATOR "There was a war in this fortress, and a lot of bodies were buried ... we've got plenty of material." "But still, you can't do it alone. You'll have to tell the Lord..." "No!" Meridiana suddenly interrupted. "You can't tell the Lord anything, he won't believe you!" "Why not? I'm his mate. Even though he's grateful to those elders, Dracomir listens to me, he might..." "You can't," Meridiana reached for her anxiously.

"I don't know why, but I saw it in that girl's memories... if you speak to the Lord against that family, he won't believe you... he... there's something... I don't know..." Victoria fell silent, her chest tight. Of course she believed Meridiana. She had felt it herself. She understood Dracomir's gratefulness, but a man as sharp as he was... it was like he was blind when it came to those people. Celia slaughtered her maids left and right, and he brushed it off as childish antics.

that. He was just, even with his grudge against vampires. But with that man and his family, the rules didn't apply. They had done something to her mate to control him. "Fine. We're on our own," she sighed with determination.

clearing. "You can't bring back your kind, and Meridiana will be drained from extracting that powerful magic. We need more allies." "Don't trust them, Victoria!

tried to make me believe. Still, we'll use him the same way they planned to use us." Rousse started to understand Victoria's plan. "Remember, Rousse, the puppeteer never tells all his secrets to his students. Let them do some of the dirty work for us," she

when the general noticed his little witch had gone too quiet. Her eyes were fixed on a far-off section of the fortress. "What is it?" he gave her hand a gentle squeeze. "Someone's in pain... walking the line between life and death..." Meridiana was far too sensitive to that. She couldn't ignore the sound of a soul's