The Lycan Princess and the Temptation of Sin by Moonlight Muse

Chapter 137

The Lycan Princess and the Temptation of Sin Chapter 137

My Beliefs

A/N: This chapter may contain some distressing content, I will place a ***** before and after the content, I deem the most distressing part.

ALERIC.

I close my eyes, the fire witch’s anguish cries. filling my ears. It’s not a melody… but a stabbing noise that is making me restless.

He was a casualty just like Quade…

The number of dead is rising and I’m losing count.

But he was a necessity… the plan is in motion and the blame needs to be focused on Royce. 1

Who killed Chris and how?

Even though I don’t know the answer to those questions, something makes me wonder if Apophis has got someone else working for him…

I don’t know who he has but if he has someone doing his bidding, then it is a cold reminder that if I fail, he can and will easily replace me. 7

He won’t need me and will cast me aside

with ease.

What am I doing anyway?

What is the purpose of it all?

To be powerful…

I don’t feel it. I feel as if I’m destroying everything I worked for in life. 4

The agonising pain in my neck ever since she marked me has numbed my mind and senses. It’s not healing, and I can feel my link to Apophis ebbing away. 7

His words the moment she marked me ring in my head.

‘No! It cannot be! Fool! Stop!’ 6

Something about her marking me hit him and since then I am alone, with only his command, telling me what I need to carry out.

Foolish…

I am indeed foolish… 1

I scoff quietly, resting my head back as I stare at the ceiling of the room I am held in.

The commotion is ongoing, but my mind is a storm of thoughts.

Royce’s rage… the look in his eyes… the hatred…

I’ve always been jealous of him, the way he doesn’t care what others think of him, the way he is always better at things without trying. I would practice for hours to perfect something, whether that be a subject or something in training, but he wouldn’t even try, and he’d nail it.

How do you compete with that?

I saw the way Dad’s interest shifted to him when he realised he was a born protégée, but it wasn’t jealousy back then… it was fear…

Fear that Dad will start to hurt him how he hurt me. I was still his big brother, even if he was stronger. It was my duty to protect him … and so I used to tell him I’m better, that I am the future Alpha, that he can relax and enjoy life. 13

Whilst at the same time I’d try harder to be better, to keep Dad’s attention on me… it didn’t fully work… but when he realised that Royce lacked the drive and passion for power and learning, he then started extracting his blood and began experimenting on me with it. 2

They hurt… It hurt… but I would lie and say it didn’t, so he thought he was succeeding… because if he realised he’s failing… he’d hurt him again… 3

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(FLASHBACK – TWELVE YEARS AGO)

“It’s not working!” Dad snarls, and I remain silent as I stand there with several wires connected to my body.

“It will father, I feel stronger already,” I lie. How do I tell him that my body is rejecting Royce’s blood? 1

but clearly not

let’s try something. Last week I checked something on Royce… I want to see what you can tolerate in comparison. Perhaps he is the one I need to work on…”

fear that is beginning to eat at me inside.

his eyes makes me wonder when he

motioning for

where I am able to tolerate heat. It is

retrieve Royce. He

I should be the one dealing with this. After all you only want

son.” Dad nods in approval. 4

hooks me up to the machines and I stand there trying not to feel afraid. Preparing for

becomes too much, let me know,” he shakes his head as if disappointed in

one

like how he pitched us against one. another, we’re

there for one another and protect one another… but Dad sees

to constantly compete, as if only one of us can succeed.

deep breath, focusing on my

with Mom, Royce, and

focus on

of electricity stabs into the

trying to steady my breathing, but

Fuck!

body screams for reprieve, but

Royce going

for

Do this for…

It hurts…

rip myself apart to get rid of the pain I’m feeling, but I’m bound to the

it worth it?

to

Blood.

taste blood

to

I can’t… because

better than this… but if I die, then he will feel

the way I

that

one day, someone will protect

think I blacked out because

can barely move. My heart is beating irregularly and the taste of blood in my

Ric!” Royce’s

room until I spot the silhouette outside of

ask, but my voice comes out

come on, let’s sneak out. I want to go to

I don’t want to.”

need to live Aleric… despite everything, don’t be such a loser,

Royce! You only care for yourself anyway! I have better things to focus on like training to be the alpha of this pack!

have the

bloody buzzkill,” his moody

down and I

I murmur. “Of course, he tried this when Mother wasn’t

body in too much agony to do anything.

It’ll get easier…

Someday…

(END OF FLASHBACK)

and torture soon made me bitter… and the love I had

won’t deny

the life he had, but…

only to realise that my brother is the Solaris King

he still

didn’t need

myself, and that

would make his daughter fall for me! But then

times worse is the fact that he even took my mate…

be around for long…

obvious she resents me… and that only angers

Apophis… and his wrath is hanging over me like a dark, gloomy

be a fool, but I also know I may have bitten

at the

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