The Lycan Princess and the Temptation of Sin by Moonlight Muse

Chapter 155

71. The Darkness Within

A/N: Contains slightly dark content.

RAIHANA.

It is a trap, the poison in the air, the side of the building caving in to trap us here. The only thing that she isn’t counting on, is the fact that I’m not alone.

Aunty Red had seen us duelling and came to my assistance.

Just as Sephora brought down the wall trying to trap me alone, Aunty Red had managed to jump in before the walls came down. 2

Sephora now stands there, magic tingling at her fingertips, a smirk of confidence on her face.

“You heard the High Witch Magdalene! Raihana is your new leader.” Scarlett warns, her voice a menacing snarl as she clutches her waist. 1

Sephora sent several shards of crystal at her when the wall came down, simultaneously releasing a wolfsbane poison in the air.

If it wasn’t for her rapid healing ability, Aunty

Red wouldn’t have even been able to stand after that crystal shard pierced through her hip. to play, and she is Sephora is here to win, not proving that through her merciless attacks. If it wasn’t for the poison that I have inhaled, she would have been mine already.

“A hybrid as the ruler of the coven? One who is not of pure blood?! That’s madness!” She scoffs, laughing as if she had just heard a funny joke.

“Clearly it isn’t Hecate’s command that you are obeying right now,” I say coldly. The witches under the command don’t look happy with what they are doing, but Sephora… well, it’s an entirely different case with her.

She tenses, her gaze flicking to Scarlett before she looks at me.

“We are but our Goddess’s pawns. What she wishes for is a duty we must obey! Like she’d bless you to be the next High Witch!” she sneers, sending another wave of power at me.

I deflect it, my eyes burning with rage.

She may have weakened my werewolf side, but she didn’t think this through… I am not only a werewolf, meaning I can function pretty well… I just need a little tim

“Stop dodging!” She snarls as I move my head to the side, letting another blast she sends my way rush past me.

“Then up your game, Sephora! You want what I have, then show me you are worthy of it,” I taunt coldly.

“You are the daughter of Endora! An outcast! A traitor! A Dark Witch! How can the coven allow you to be chosen instead of me?!” She hisses.” When he is in charge, I will rule as his ally as the head of the coven! Why was I not chosen?!”

“Because you are irrational, stupid, and power- hungry,” I say coldly, deflecting another attack, as she starts chanting again, her voice angrier and more powerful. 2

I just need a little time… just enough to gather enough power…

I glance at Aunty Red as she clutches her waist. She has protected me but in return…

I look at the large pool of blood beneath her, my stomach churning.

I need to end this fast.

Sephora’s eyes blaze as she runs at me. Streams of her power travel across the ground and wrap around me before she throws me to the ground.

She grabs my jaw, as I try to focus on my powers, almost there…

I can feel my energy returning, despite the wolfsbane clinging to the air.

“Well, this irrational, stupid and power-hungry witch was able to kill your Alpha without batting an eyelid,” she whispers tauntingly into my ear. 2

My heart thuds as my mind goes blank, her words ringing in my mind.

Chris.

I look into her eyes. She’s smiling, an amused glint in her eyes.

She killed my baby… 8

The numbness vanishes as fast as it came and, with it, excruciating pain wraps around my heart.

The painful reminder that he is no longer here returns with ruthless, cold-blooded vengeance. chris…”

I breathe, my heart

“Chris… You kille thumping.

“Do you have another Alpha, Serafina? Yes, Chris, your mate,” she taunts, smirking at the look on my face.

head back as she begins chanting, louder, powerful magic swirls around

still, but the thunder of my heartbeat

I ask, as I feel her magic whirl around us, but

Snap out of it!” Aunty Red shouts.

was your weakness,” she whispers in my ear.

my eyes, trying to breathe through

because

wanted to weaken me so you could become the head of the coven?”

flicker of fear in her

hisses, as my aura

it out of here alive!” I hiss. A blast of power throws

power burning through

wants her blood spread across the

spell of slumber,

Her flutter shut, and she slumps to the

yes

you don’ can become… need o see the

hisses, looking between me and Aunty Red, unease flitting across her

you what happens when you hurt one of my loved ones… Oh wait, you didn’t hurt him, you killed him.” I snarl as I walk towards her. Each step I take pushes through her barriers,

us, wanting

an inferno of

She killed him…

want her dead.

thinks. I am going to

quick, easy chivalrous death.

insane to the point she’ll beg for death itself.

it, I will not let her go, not until I have driven her

chant the spell that is perfect for this situation.

as she backs

a glimmer of panic

when you carved that symbol into his

eyes, my head spinning as memories of Chris flood my mind; his words, his promises, his love, all the memories of the past, burn through my mind. Watching my life like

him we’ll be together

he is

night…

Marking one another…

My first pregnancy…

Our wedding…

Our children…

Our love…

sadness, excitement

as we travelled on the path

his final words echo in

never

gone, forever. 1

family nights where he teases us, brings us snacks and pizza, and always makes me happy…

spiral. Despite not having any magic, he was always there for her, never afraid to stand before her and tell her she could do

sting, as a picture of him on his knees before her telling her she had this, without

treated his girls like queens.

that serious,

boy’s night out, which he

three of us with the utmost level of love and made us feel like we were

we were.

no more of his comfort, his scent,

It’s all gone.

Because of her.

aura bursting like an erupting

thinking of yourself and this position, you didn’t only take away my mate! You took away someone’s father!

friend!” I scream in agony as a fresh wave

truly is gone.

fire begin to claw closer to her, as she keeps chanting, trying to push them away, but she forgets, I am

raise my hand making a grabbing motion. Dark tendrils of fire mimic my movement, wrapping around her arms and throat.

leaves her lips, but it’s cut off when the tendril wraps tighter around her neck, choking her, burning her and torturing her at the same time.

she tries to pull at the tendrils, only

won’t kill you so fast,” I whisper.

over to her, I place my fingers on her head. I whisper a spell, and with each word I speak, her face becomes

the spell hasn’t come into effect, but she knows what this

I whisper, making her