The Lycan King and His Dark Temptation Novel

---- "Marius, did you find something?" A woman ran up to him. Her dull brown hair and deep eye bags spoke volumes. "Sorry, Sophie..." "And who are they?" she asked, stopping to evaluate us the moment she saw us. She looked us up and down, not even trying to hide her slightly hostile curiosity. "Sophie, manners. They're friends." "They're not here to ask for food, are they?" . "Sophie! "It's okay, we don't want to be a burden," | jumped in before he could grab her arm.

"Marius, what happened?" Another man came from deeper inside the cave-like place. A black-haired one. "| found them. They took on a wolf soldier and killed him," he explained. ---- The man, Edgar, instantly looked intrigued. "They're going to bring trouble down here, aren't they? You shouldn't have saved them!" "Take them inside, I'll be right there," Marius told Edgar in a rough tone, grabbing the woman's arm. He gave her a stem look that made her shut up instantly.

| watched him stay behind, whispering something to her Her angry eyes met mine for a second before she followed Edgar. | didn't like her attitude. | guess it was the same harsh world making her so distrustful. sek That night, we met Marius's group. A bunch of vampires that had banded together-not out of family ties-but just to survive. "It's not much, but please eat something." Marius handed us some bowls with a few spoonfuls of black liquid that nearly made me gag. ---- "m not hungry, really.

Keep it for yourselves," | told him as politely as | could "Sorry, it's all we have." "Marius, for the love of the Goddess, you don't have to apologize," | said, even embarrassed, finally taking the soup. | brought it to my lips and drank it without breathing. We all sat and talked around a fire. They were slurping down what they called broth like it was gold. Something about it reminded me of the rats in the alley.

"| don't need to eat," | heard Rousse's voice and, honestly, | envied him for it. They looked at him curiously, but no one dared to ask what he was. "Don't bring up that damn bitch who abandoned us," that woman, Sophie, suddenly said to me, venom seeping from her teeth. "Sophie, that's enough!"