The Lycan King and His Dark Temptation Novel

---- 116. IT'S TIME TO CHOOSE AIDAN 1 Iclenched my teeth, shutting out his presence and Theo's damn presence too. I don't know how many hours I spent out there, almost naked under the storm... just thinking... Ineeded to feel her warmth again, to remember our bond, to search for that blackberry scent her body used to have... and now only reeked of death. Iwalked back through the halls like a ghost, like I had so many nights before.

Hiding my presence, I stood in front of her bedroom door-the one she hardly let me into anymore. Ever since she woke up, I could feel her growing cold, detached Isabella wouldn't let me touch her. She was always finding excuses to avoid me. It's not like I wanted to do anything extreme-I knew she was weak -I just wanted to sleep beside her, holding hands like we used to... like a real couple. "Mmmnn aayy..." I tensed at the low, painful moans.

Treached for the doorknob but froze when I heard the conversation happening inside Bella's room. ---- "gis, you can't keep going like this, I can't stand seeing you suffer like this... I'm telling Dad, we have to do that spell..." "No... no, Lisa... don't you dare... I'll never forgive you if you do that..." she gasped, her breathing erratic. Thad never heard her like that... so agonized. She had hidden those symptoms from me... "Nyx is good... You can't lock her away!

I don't want to live like this!" My soul clenched as I understood her words. "You won't be able to hold on much longer, the Goddess is calling you... Bella, you no longer belong in this world, we need to steal that woman's spirit!" Bella kept telling her no, saying she regretted calling her. I stood there, paralyzed in the dark. I knew exactly what Lisa, Bella's sister, meant. Of course I'd thought the same thing the first time I saw Nyx and realized the nature of her possession magic.

But after feeling her... knowing what she means to Theo... even to Viad and me... I couldn't do it. Tcouldn't do that to her. ---- Not even to save Bella. I turned and walked away from those rooms that were suffocating me, dragging me deeper into a hole Thad barely taken a few steps when I sensed someone following me to my room. "T now you were listening," Lisa's voice rang out behind me, but I didn't turn around.

"That foreign witch might be powerful, but with my father, Vincent's magic, mine, and of course yours-we can trap her spirit inside Bella forever..." "Do you really think that's what your sister would want?" I turned to face her coldly. "To live forever with another woman's presence trapped in her mind? Carrying the guilt of having stolen her life?" With every word I spoke, more and more rage burned inside me. It was so cruel that fate was forcing me to choose.

"Did you ever ask my sister if she wanted to be frozen in time just to please your selfishness?" she took a step forward, throwing everything back at me. "suffering all these years, those scars eating her from the inside..."