The Lycan King and His Dark Temptation Novel

---- The personal seal of House Vlad, something only he could cast as Zarek's trusted general No matter who brought him back, this "undead" would always belong to the Vlads deep down. And so, the night passed in that godforsaken land Marius was like a child with his new toys, even giving them orders, foolishly thinking they obeyed him No trace of compassion for his fellow men, slaughtered by werewolves during the war.

Rousse just watched from the side, irritated, while further off, his underling Edgar huffed through his role as gravedigger and tomb raider. Digging holes with nothing but a shovel. Rousse missed his woman. He sighed at the moon, worried about Meridiana. He should've resisted the madness of those two. But even though he could've stood his ground with Victoria, in the end, Meridiana disarmed him. He'd make her pay for her defiance later.

---- In the middle of his thoughts, he felt the tug in his soul-Miss Vlad was calling Victoria needed him somewhere to bring her in "I'll be back in a while. Keep going," he said quickly, vanishing into the forest. Marius watched his broad back disappear, full of mockery and hidden plans. "Hey, why the hell do I have to do all the hard work and he just supervises?" Edgar stomped over, pissed off. "You wanna bring it up when he gets back?" Marius replied with a smirk.

"| could fight him now that I've got my powers back..." "Shhh, shut up," Marius stood and looked toward the place where Rousse had disappeared. Besides, the undead were standing there, seemingly lost... but who knew if they were listening? "| told you, no one can know we've broken the restrictions. That's our greatest advantage!" Edgar sighed and nodded. ---- He was Marius's cousin, but he seemed more like his servant.

Even so, he admitted that was the only reason he'd survived the past disaster. "You believe that nonsense that witch screamed when she woke up? Monsters and all that..." Edgar asked. "I don't know. But we need to side with the winning team-and that's still unclear," Marius answered in his mind. He couldn't stop plotting his future.

That little witch girl had been left in the care of the old women from her group, but Marius had quickly seen her as his ticket out of the warding spells on the territory. Neither Victoria, nor Rousse, nor that blind one were around, she'd been left under his watch. First thing he did when the woman regained a little strength was force her to recite the enchantment.

She passed out as soon as she finished-still too weak-but Marius got what he wanted And where there was a first attempt, there was a second. That's how Edgar was freed too.