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.

throws her head back as she begins

still, but the thunder of my heartbeat is ringing in my

whirl around us, but I can’t do

of it!” Aunty Red shouts.

your weakness,” she whispers in my ear.

trying to

because of

coven?” I ask, my

the flicker of fear in her eyes as my own eyes

as

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

power burning through my veins.

her blood spread across the rubble

at Aunty Red, whispering a spell of slumber,

shut, and she slumps to

yes

don’ can become… need o

doing?!” Sephora hisses, looking between me and Aunty Red, unease flitting across her face. 2

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, my own power raging

us, wanting to eat all in its wake.

are blazing with an inferno of pain

She killed him…

her

what anyone thinks. I

not just a quick,

insane to the point she’ll beg for death

she begs for it, I will not let her go, not until

as I begin to chant the spell that is perfect

as she backs away.

shouts, a glimmer of

did you… when you carved that symbol

words, his promises, his love, all

together every blood moon… 2

out he is my mate…

first night…

Marking one another…

My first pregnancy…

Our wedding…

Our children…

Our love…

excitement and

we travelled on the path of life together.

trickle down my cheeks as his final words echo

never

forever. 1

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

not having any magic, he was always there for her, never afraid to stand before her and tell

him on his knees before her telling

treated his girls

Tatum, that serious, responsible

he loved, getting to bond

have favourites because he treated all three of us with the utmost level of love and made us feel like we were the most precious things on this

him, we were.

any more warm embraces, no more of his comfort,

It’s all gone.

Because of her.

open, my aura bursting like

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

a fresh wave of pain and clarity hits me.

is gone.

as she keeps chanting, trying to push them away,

raise my hand making a grabbing motion.

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

power flickers around her hands as she tries

won’t kill you so fast,”

I whisper a spell,

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

whisper, making her