The Lycan King and His Dark Temptation Novel

---- Under the moonlight, from the forest, | saw her standing there, turning toward me before stepping inside. Every inch of her body was perfect, beautiful, ethereal. Those red eyes met mine across the distance. She, up high... and me, on the rough ground. She, like a glowing star... and me, the broken wolf who couldn't touch her and had to settle for longing. "Victoria, I'm so, so sorry..." | reached out with my words like a silent plea to her mind.

My chest tightened, and my fists clenched hard enough to break my bones. | took a step forward, waiting... For anything: a curse, her anger, her hate... but what | got was. worse. Indifference. She turned and stepped inside her room, closing the balcony doors behind her. | don't know how long | stood there. ---- Seconds... minutes... hours... Tonight, | could have broken free from my chains for good, but instead, | chose to stay buried in my own world of slavery.

Jk VICTORIA | dragged myself along the wall, my back aching and my head throbbing Everything hurt, but nothing more than my heart. Tears streamed down my face, my eyes locked on the darkness. My mind was a total mess. Someone was crying in the middle of the night. Choked sobs, rough, deep, and full of sadness. It took me a while to realize it was me. had never cried like this before-so full of disappointment. And again...

because of the same man | lowered my head and curled my knees up to my chest, hugging them. ---- Biting my bottom lip so | wouldn't wake up Rousse and worry him. Then | heard it. The howl of a lycan in the distance. A heartbreaking, lonely sound... a call to my soul. It carried sadness and despair. But it only made me cry harder, and it closed my heart even more. | wouldn't give him the chance to hurt me again. | would go back home and forget it all... forget him.

| wouldn't let him use me as the target for his hatred toward vampires. Whatever happened here wasn't my fault. «| want to go back... right now... It hurts, it hurts so much...» Where can | find a clue to get back home? How do you escape a love that's destroying you? 1