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.

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

remain still, but the thunder of my

feel her magic whirl around us, but I can’t

it!” Aunty

was your weakness,” she

to

who never hurt anyone… because

weaken me so you could become the head of the coven?” I ask, my eyes snapping open,

the flicker of fear in her eyes

hisses, as my aura rages around

not be making it out of here

kind of power burning through my

across the

Aunty Red, whispering a spell of slumber, my eyes burning orange.

shut, and she slumps to

yes

don’ can become… need o see the monster

Sephora hisses, looking between

him, you killed him.” I snarl as I walk towards her. Each

around us, wanting to eat all

with an

She killed him…

her dead.

what anyone thinks. I am

a quick, easy

point she’ll beg for death itself. 1

even when she begs for it, I will not let her go, not until I have driven her beyond the

as I begin to chant the spell that is

as she

you’re using dark magic!” She shouts, a glimmer of panic in

that symbol into

close my 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 it is a movie reel…

we’ll be together every blood

he is my

night…

Marking one another…

My first pregnancy…

Our wedding…

Our children…

Our love…

sadness, excitement and amusement

we travelled on the path of

as his final

never

gone, forever. 1

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

helping Heaven when her powers begin to spiral. Despite not having any magic, he was always there

of him on his knees before her telling her she had

his

training Tatum, that serious,

which he loved, getting

all three of us with the utmost level of love and made

we were.

of his comfort,

It’s all gone.

Because of her.

eyes snap open, my aura bursting

yourself and this position, you didn’t only take away my

fresh

truly is

her, as she keeps chanting, trying to push them away, but she forgets,

fall weak!” I scream, as I raise

lips, but it’s cut off when the tendril wraps tighter around her neck, choking her, burning her and

power flickers around her hands as she tries to pull at the

so fast,”

I whisper a spell,

hasn’t come into effect, but she knows what this is.

whisper, making her struggle