The Lycan King and his Dark Temptation novel Chapter 93

VALERIA

In the midst of my tears, I suddenly felt disoriented.

Something dense filled my nostrils, a sharp pain pierced my head, and dizziness overtook me.

I stood up, wiping my tears, and looked around. I couldn’t see anything—an opaque, white fog surrounded me, obscuring even the light of the moon.

What was I doing here?

I felt a bit confused, but my body tensed when I saw a woman emerge from the fog.

"Sophia." I instinctively went on guard.

She had been my best friend, but she betrayed me with my Alpha, Dorian. I saw them together—yes, but when?

"Did you come to celebrate your victory? To laugh at having deceived me while sleeping with Dorian?"

"No, I actually came to return this deformed thing that came out of your womb," she said, and I noticed the bundle in her hands.

The white cloths were soaked with blood.

My heart raced with panic. I didn’t want her to unwrap what she was holding—I had a terrible feeling that knowing the truth would break me beyond repair.

"Take it. This thing is your baby. You were bleeding to death, and I pulled it out from between your legs," she said, and I glanced down at myself.

My dress was drenched in blood. Suddenly, a dull pain spread through my belly.

"Take it now, or I’ll throw it on the ground!"

"NO!" I screamed as she actually flung it onto the grass. I froze, staring at what she had dropped. I didn’t want to describe it—it was too horrifying. It didn’t even look like a baby.

I collapsed to my knees, reaching out my trembling hands, tears streaming once more.

My heart shattered into pieces as I gathered the tiny body, trying to wrap it in the warmth of the bloodstained cloth.

I cradled it against my chest, wailing in anguish.

The sorrow was so overwhelming that I wished I could die right then and there.

Through the chaos in my mind, her mocking laughter and taunting words pierced through.

"Always so pathetic, drowning in tears over everything. That’s why you ended up disgusting Dorian. Honestly, who would want to have a child with you?"

I raised my gaze, filled with fury, and locked eyes with her smug, cynical expression as she stood just a few steps away.

"What’s that? Save that furious look for your Dorian. He should be arriving soon to take that creature out of your hands. What a disgrace it would be for anyone to see the monster you gave birth to!"

"No one is taking my child from me, you wretched bitch! NO ONE!" I screamed, my voice consumed by the darkness flooding my heart.

I carefully set the small bundle under a bush for protection while she laughed behind me, taunting me, asking what I was going to do.

She kept calling me Dorian’s pet, a weak omega who couldn’t even protect her own child.

"She defended us. It seems she was also walking in the woods. I ran to get help, but she... I fear it may be too late. That creature attacked her..."

I didn’t think twice. Terror and fury overwhelmed me, the same emotions I felt when my family was mutilated.

"I smell her ahead, but I also smell blood. Everything’s a blur—run, Aldric, run!" Azarot roared desperately in my mind. My skin turned to fur, my human feet to animal paws. I sprinted at full speed and then I saw it.

Through the dense fog and an atmosphere drenched in malice, a creature of darkness—an assassin vampire—was strangling a woman, holding her high in the air by her neck.

Her feet trembled, suspended in the void as she was strangled, her back to me.

Blood trickled down her claw-scarred arms, and her black hair whipped in the wind.

She wore the same dress as my Valeria. My mate, right before my eyes, was being murdered.

Blinded by rage, I let out a deafening roar that shook the night and charged toward the cliff, cutting through the fog.

I would not let history repeat itself. I would save Valeria no matter what and rip that damn vampire’s heart from her chest.

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VALERIA

A furious roar tore through the night, breaking my focus on Sophia for a moment. It had to be Dorian—that bastard was coming to finish me and my child, to erase the evidence of our existence.

But this time, it wouldn’t be me who fell off that cliff and died.