The Lycan King and His Dark Temptation Novel

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1 WILL KEEP YOU ALL SAFE VALERIA Hearing that heart-wrenching scream from my little pup, I felt the world collapse around me.

Iran at a dizzying speed despite the aches in my body.

Lately, I havent been feeling wellI think its the stress and the looming disasters ahead.

Dodging trees, with my lycan always at my heels, I find Sigrid sobbing, sitting beside the well.

"sigrid, calm down, my love, calm down!" I immediately lunged toward her, pulling her into my chest, kneeling on the damp grass.

She was trembling uncontrollably, her skin ice cold.

She buried herself against me, clinging to me in despair.

Goddess, what has happened to my daughter in the single hour Pve been away from her? "Mama, mama..." She only calls for me and cries in a way that shatters my heart.

AIL can do is stroke her hair and try to reassure her.

"Aldric..." I sense him approaching.

He wraps both of us in his arms, sitting on the ground and holding us close with his powerful, protective embrace.

His rough hand gently strokes Sigrids short hair.

She tries to ---- speak but chokes on her sobs.

"calm down, little pup, you're safe now.

Youre home, baby, youre home." "pa...

pa..." she hiccups, finally lifting her face, flushed, her eyes swollen, her expression filled with anguish and pain.

That...

that Goddesswhat the hell did she do to my daughter?! "Sigrid, you did it! You made it back!" Zareks voice cuts through as he rushes in with the rest of the family, all of them deeply worried about her.

"YOUR PARENTS, THE SELENIAS...

THEYRE ALL DAMNED, EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM!" 'SIGRID!!" Aldric roars as she collapses in our arms.

Panic floods me, and my magic surges wildly, rushing into her body.

Sigrid had been screaming at Zarek with a burning hatred I had never seen in her before.

Now, shes unconsciousshes fainted.

Everyone, calm down.

Breathe, Vale, I'll check on her with you, just stay calm," my mother kneels beside me, with Quinn helping her.

Here, outside the palace lands, her vision isnt as sharp.

Her magic and mine flow into Sigrids body, coursing through her veins, searching every corner of her mind.

---- For heaven's sakeher mind is a complete mess! "she passed out from the shock.

Shes under immense stress, and so are you, Valeria.

You need to calm down, my daughter..." "How do you expect me to stay calm when I leave my daughter for less than an hour, and she gets kidnapped from my side?!" "Baby, breathe, breathe...

shes safe now.

Shes strong, and shes with us," Aldric intervenes.

I apologize to my motherI know she only wants to help, but the helplessness is suffocating me.

Aldric tries to hide it, but hes far worse.

He thinks I dont notice, but I know him too wellhe blames himself for not protecting her, for letting something like this happen right under our noses.

Finally, he lifts her in his arms, and we take her back to the palace.

Im still shaking from pure nerves, my stomach twisting, waves of pain assaulting my abdomen.

Its just the stress of the moment, I tell myself, as I keep holding my breath, I just hope my little pup is okay, though something deep inside tells me things wont be that simple.