The Lycan King and His Dark Temptation Novel

---- They hid in the swamps, deep in the abandoned ruins, fearing the wrath of the crown.

Then she discovered she was pregnant.

But she didnt want the childof course, she didnt want to carry the offspring of that damned man.

She did everything to rid herself of it, but like a parasite, that life clung to her.

I saw a baby being born from pure suffering, from a violent birth.

Brown hair, brown eyesinnocent, unaware.

Black marks tattooed her skin, then vanished, absorbed into her flesh.

Magic.

The baby was a magical creatureand her mother despised her even more for it.

She had been just an elemental.

Which meant he had lied about that too.

He was a filthy supernatural being.

The babys cries echoed through the abandoned house.

The grandmother didnt know what to do with the starving child.

She needed her mothershe couldnt keep rejecting her own baby! But where had she gone? She was still weakshe shouldnt have left her bed.

Then she saw it.

The attic ladder had been pulled down.

A terrible premonition twisted in her heart.

---- 1 saw it all, as if I were climbing those steps myself to check.

Fear clenched around me.

Thunder rumbled outside the enormous circular window, the storm raging over the wooded lands.

The atticdark, just like now.

I didnt want to see.

I didnt want to see...

The old woman's scream ripped through the mansion, shaking the walls as she found her daughters body hanging from the high attic beam.

Her white nightgown swayed in the breeze rushing through the wide-open window, rain pouring in torrents outside.

BAM! The wooden shutters banged open and closed with violent force» BAM! Tjolted awake, gasping was I back in reality? Or still trapped in that vision? BAM! BAM! The window behind me banged again, rattling violently just like that day.

Kneeling, gripping the jewelry box in my cold hands, my whole body trembled.

My scalp prickled as if someone was watching me from behindwith malice.

No.

No, no, I didnt want to turn around.

I had to leave.

I had to get out of this place filled with ghosts and pain.

---- I turned my head just slightly, just enough to glance over my shoulder And saw it.

A distorted shadow on the floor.

A body hanging in the air.

swaying forward and back.

Forward and back.

The sound of a rope twisting...