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,

my heartbeat

magic whirl

Snap out of it!”

she whispers in

trying to breathe through

hurt anyone… because of me he

the coven?” I

fear in her eyes as my own eyes glimmer

every right!” she hisses, as my

coven, because you will not be making it out of here alive!” I hiss. A blast of power throws

power burning through

wants her blood spread across the

a spell of slumber,

Her flutter shut, and she slumps to the side.

yes

don’ can become… need o

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

you didn’t hurt him, you killed him.” I snarl as I walk towards her. Each

around us, wanting to eat

are blazing with an inferno of

She killed him…

her dead.

care what anyone thinks. I am going to kill

a quick, easy chivalrous

her insane to the point she’ll beg

begs for it, I will not let her go,

is pounding as I begin to chant

turns ashen as she backs

magic!” She shouts, a glimmer

carved that symbol into his chest.” I

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

together every blood moon…

he is my mate…

night…

Marking one another…

My first pregnancy…

Our wedding…

Our children…

Our love…

sadness, excitement

as we travelled on the

my cheeks as his

was never meant to be…

gone, forever.

us, brings us snacks and pizza, and always makes

was always

eyes sting, as a picture of him on his knees before her

truly treated his girls like queens.

training Tatum, that serious, responsible

he loved, getting to bond with

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

him, we

of

It’s all gone.

Because of her.

snap open, my aura

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

in agony as a fresh wave of pain and clarity hits me.

is

fire begin to claw closer to her, as she keeps chanting, trying to

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

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

her power flickers around her hands as she tries to pull at the tendrils, only for them to

kill you so

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

the spell hasn’t come into effect,

whisper, making her