The Lycan King and His Dark Temptation Novel

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TAKE OF MY LIFE ELLIOT "ROSELLA!" I roared with even more urgency, a sinister premonition assaulting my senses.

Iran toward her scent and then...

that suffocating, intense smell of iron.

Before I reached her, I saw her stepping out from the shadow of the trees her pale skin, trembling lips, and disheveled hair.

My eyes dropped, stunned.

Her hands...

her hands clutched the hilt of a weapon, buried deep in her chest.

"NOOOO!" I bellowed, rushing toward her.

She tried to take steps toward me, staggering, stumbling forward.

I caught her midair in my arms; the coldness of her skin clenched my fears.

I lifted her immediately, afraid to touch her chest, feeling her life slipping away with each breath.

Isat on the ground, near the precipice, my back to the forest.

"No, no, Rosella, you can't do this to me, you can't! Damn it!" My fingers reached for that damned weapon.

When did this happen? How could I be so careless? "L..

I'm sorry..." "Don't talk, don't talk, baby, damn it, no, no..." I bent over her dirt- streaked face, my salty tears wetting her skin.

I shut my eyes tight, desperate.

---- So many times, I had wished for her death, and now that I held her in my arms, dying, about to be freed from my chains, I refused it with every fiber of my being.

I felt like I was dying with hersomething inside me fought harder than ever to break free.

Asharp pain exploded in my mind.

"Feed my female...

feed my female...

blood...

blood...

my blood..." An otherworldly, furious voice roared over and over inside my head.

Iknewit was my wolf.

I knew it.

But I lacked the knowledge to release him.

No one had ever taught me, and now I needed him more than ever.

"Rossella, Rossella, look at me, baby, look at me.

Don't close your eyes.

Don't you dare close them!" Her hand fell lifelessly onto the grass, her eyelids shutting completely.

Thad to save herno matter what.

I took the risk, even if someone saw me, and followed my instincts.

My canines elongated in my mouth.

I tore open the veins in my wrist, and immediately, the powerful life force flowed.

With my other hand, I pried open her mouth, forcing her chin with my fingers.

Ibrought the medicine to her pale lips.

"Drink, Rosella, come on, Duchess, dont you say you love me, that you ll obey me in everything? I command you to liveyour Duke commands you to live..." Ipressed my forehead to hers.

---- Blood dripped into her mouth, slipping down her tongue, but she wasnt swallowingshe wasntand my sensitive hearing caught the dwindling beat of her heart.

I spoke to her over and over, massaging her throat with my fingers to help her.

As the seconds passed, my entire body trembled with the tension in my muscles, the unbearable pain in my soul.

I lifted my gazethe mist cleared slightly, revealing the eternal darkness of this realm, a place where I would never truly belong.

Moonlight bathed us.

They said supernatural beings came from that Goddessthe elementals despised her.

For the first time, maddened, I begged her to let Rosella live, that I would never again wish for her death, that I would never wish her harm despite her past mistakes.

A faint movement beneath my fingers snapped my attention back to her pale, paper-white face.

She began to swallow my bloodsupernatural, mixed with elemental.

"That's it, baby, take more.

Come on, Rossella, dont give up, dont give up, Little Duchess." Her lips closed over my vein, her tongue caressed my wound, sending shivers down my spine.

I felt strange as I fed her.

Despite the desperate situation, I couldn't stop my body from reacting slightly.