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

but the thunder of my heartbeat is

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

of it!” Aunty Red

your weakness,” she whispers in my ear.

trying to breathe through

hurt anyone… because

head of the coven?” I ask, my eyes snapping open, but I already

her eyes as my own eyes glimmer orange.

she hisses, as my aura

out of here alive!” I hiss. A blast of

a different kind of power

wants her blood spread across the rubble of this destruction.

whispering a spell of

and she slumps to

yes

don’ can become… need o see the monster

Sephora hisses, looking between me and Aunty Red, unease

him, you killed him.” I snarl as I walk towards her. Each step I take pushes through her barriers, my own power raging around me.

wanting to eat all in

eyes are blazing with an inferno of pain

She killed him…

her

what anyone thinks. I am going to kill her.

a quick, easy chivalrous death.

point

it, I will not let her go, not until

to chant the spell that is perfect for this situation.

as she backs away.

magic!” She shouts, a glimmer of panic in her

that symbol into his chest.” I

of Chris flood my mind; his words, his promises, his love, all the memories of the past,

be together every

is my

first night… 2

Marking one another…

My first pregnancy…

Our wedding…

Our children…

Our love…

sadness, excitement and amusement

as we travelled on the path of life together.

down my cheeks as his final words

never meant to

gone, forever. 1

family nights where he teases us,

having any magic, he was always there for her, never afraid to stand before her and tell her she

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

truly treated his

serious, responsible side of him…

a boy’s night out, which he loved, getting to bond with his

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

we

any more warm embraces, no more of his comfort, his

It’s all gone.

Because of her.

eyes snap open, my aura bursting like an

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

I scream in agony as a fresh wave

is

to claw closer to her, as she keeps chanting,

in death, he is my strength, because he never wanted me to fall weak!” I scream, as I raise my hand making a grabbing motion. Dark tendrils of fire mimic my movement,

the tendril wraps tighter around her neck, choking her, burning her and torturing her

around her hands as she tries to pull at

won’t kill you so fast,”

fingers on her head. I whisper a spell,

come into effect, but she knows what this

making her struggle violently.