Chapter 20.Inside a dark cold cell, a red-haired woman bound in shackles of iron and lay on the cold floor helplessly and tired. She looked tired and done with life itself. The Hawthorne necklace on her neck flashed a dull light as her body continued to be assaulted with ith great magnitude of pain. The Vampire king has no mercy and that is reflected in his actions of leaving the potency of the Hawthorne necklace active on her neck. She quietly moaned in pain but she couldn't leave the spot or tear the necklace away from her neck because of her tied limbs.“ You will pay for your sins!” She spat out blood as the last words of Decanal invaded her head.“ I will kill you with my own hands!” Diana's voice cursed in her head as the Hawthorne continued to inflict her with pain both mentally and physically. She couldn't distinguish between the first Decanal and the current one in her head.It was all her, Kiona Crosset's doing. Three hundred years ago, She had killed the first Decanal by
Chapter 21.“ fuck!” Howard cussed out loudly immediately he shifted to his human form. He had watched the process in his head but his wolf was in control of everything. He didn't expect her to fight his mark, the wound wasn't healing as more blood gushed out of the wound. He quickly carried with bothering to wear his clothes back as he headed to the direction of the pack hospital.The Alpha had given him an ultimatum a day before. He asked him to mark Diana within two days or he would have her mated to another willing person. He doesn't want her to end up with another man, seeing her with another man might break him so he makes a selfish decision to mark her against her will even though he promised to wait till she is ready.He had tried to do it himself but his conscience kept on judging her so had to involve his wolf instead. The wolf would only follow instincts since both of them have deep affection for Diana. The wolf would do it without batting an eyelid. But he had not expect
Chapter 22.Three years ago.Diana's eyes struggled to remain close as she watched the retreating figure of her mate. She felt herself getting weaker as the seal of Decanal became weaker. The malevolent part of her wolf threatened to come out to heal her fully but she was using all her strength to prevent the seal from breaking. If that part of Decanal were to be set free, she would succumb to the uncontrollable bloodthirsty part of Decanal once again and she may end up on a killing spree.Her fur spread out as her wolf's poison ran through her to combat the burning effect of the silver. Her golden eyes became duller by the moment before turning to a faint orange.A loud growl reverberated through the forest as her entire body became covered in her fur. She grunted in pain before vomiting dark blood expelling the silver from her body, She could hardly feel the seal anymore. Her eyes had become red, her hands were now bigger claws and her black night fur was turning white starting fr
Chapter 23.Three years ago.A week later, The Alpha woke up but was still weak from the poison that had spread throughout his entire body. His left eye was now permanently blind due to being destroyed by the poison. He could have lost his life but Kiona was there to save him with her magic.He struggled to sit up on his recovery bed while Kiona fed him some potion that he grimaced immediately after each spoon left his mouth. The door to the room barged open and Howard who was now looking better stomped in while holding a letter with a royal seal on it. The Alpha was inviting him to a council meeting. He had waged a war against the king of another race without the knowledge and consent of his king. His crimes were much more than treason as he had also threatened the safety of his pack by breaking the seal on Decanal which made her succumb to blood lust, killing more than fifty wolves in the process. It was only normal if the Alpha king summoned him.He tore the letter after reading
Chapter 24.Three years ago.The rain poured with a mad rage and thunder accompanied it with an equal measure. Kiona's hands were raised to the sky and words of chants and spells left her mouth in a matching rhythm with the words of the sky. All the wolves of the Redmoon pack were in the middle of a revolution against their Alpha who was holding them hostages against the king's order.After surrounding the pack house with the green substance that activates her spell, the magic powder becomes a wolfsbane that prevents the wolves of the king from entering and the wolves of the Redmoon pack from leaving. It was chaos but the witch wasn't bothered. Alpha Leonard remained in his office following her orders, the green powder was on his entrance also preventing the raging wolves from entering his office. Howard was doing his best to keep the wolves under control but it was hard when he also harbored the same intentions towards his Alpha and the witch who kept performing her spell without a
Chapter 25.The iron bars of the prison suddenly get kicked in, breaking with the impact of the kick of the vampire king. With one fluid movement, he grabbed her by her neck and had her pinned against the wall, the Hawthorne necklace glowed after his contact with it but he didn't care. He had her in a chokehold and the effect of the Hawthorne pierced her entire body with fresh hot pain that burned her like molten lava. At this point, she has lost her will to live. She just wants to die and be free from the wrath of the vampire king.“ Tell me why Diana is in a coma. Why?!” He roared at her, almost deafening her with the volume of his voice. She could only shake in response. She doesn't have an answer to his questions and she couldn't even think of one.“ I don't know. I don't know ” She cried, her throat hoarse from all the crying she had done before. In her entire three hundred years of existence, she has never been in pain so much. Not even when Decanal murdered her entire coven in
Chapter 26..“ Little one? How? How did you get here?” He gasped seeing both of them in his dreams. She came to him herself instead of him penetrating her dreams himself. She looked different from what she normally looked like in her dreams. She had grown in the past three years and now she has revealed her present appearance to him in his dream, but her wonderful smile was still plastered on her face.“ I had thought I wouldn't hear you call me little one again” She blushed as she moved closer to him. She reached out to touch his face as he stared at her still dumbstruck. He couldn't believe it, she came to him. Even though it was through a dream, he was happy to see her.“ So perfect” She muttered trailing her fingers on his face, from his cheekbones to his lips. She nodded and smiled. “ Even without my memories, you remained the most perfect man I ever laid my eyes on”He grabbed her fingers and dragged her closer to him, engulfing her in a big hug. He was close to tears holding
Chapter 27.“ Little one, close your eyes,” He told her and she obeyed immediately. He also closed his eyes and searched for the memory of the very first time he met her in his mind, he placed his left arm on her forehead and opened up his mind to her, giving back to her, the memories he had taken from her. He allowed her to see everything from his perspective instead of hers, the information would be lost if he just returned it to her like that, he prays it works.FlashbackDarryl suddenly stopped in the middle of the woods, something catching his attention. He sniffed the air, and he couldn't deny it, there was an incredibly sweet smell that calmed his racing mind. He tried to dismiss it and continue searching for the vampire, but the scent was pulling him in. It was as if he were under a spell, and he found himself running toward it, leading him to a young lady curled up in a ball, sleeping on the grass.Seeing her lying there in such cold weather struck his heart. He couldn't fee
Epilogue.A month later“ You look less grumpy today Your Highness, finally happy your mate is with you?” Kingston teased the vampire king who was grinning from ear to ear inside the council room. He and Diana got married a week after her freedom. The day was the happiest day of his life, he couldn't hold back his tears as she walked down the aisle. Even Maurice teased him for a while because he was too emotional on his wedding day. The wedding took place at his main palace with the Alpha king and Luna queen present. Cassie, Dyrr's human counterpart had been there also to see Decanal briefly. Cassie hardly talked and Diana was a little bit socially awkward herself so they didn't even say hi to each other.He and his Queen went back to his mansion and they started living their happily ever after. It has been nothing but a blissful journey so far, he even missed her so much even though he had only left the mansion for just half an hour to attend the council meeting.It was now time for
Chapter 45.“ Watch out” Diana's head whipped towards the direction of the voice, She felt herself getting whipped around as the hands of her mate caught the spear in no time. Before she could react to his actions, he threw it straight to where it came from and continued kissing his mate.Unlike him, Howard couldn't dodge the spear nor could he catch the weapon with his hands before it landed on his chest straight to his heart. He hated him so much but he hated himself for being weaker than him. He stared at them with hurt and regret swimming through his eyes as he spat out blood. He tried not to howl out in pain as the silver burned through his chest, He even caught Darryl's smirk towards him before he took his last breath. The royal wolves took his body out of the hall.“ So I can't kill my brother but you can kill him?” Diana asked furrowing her eyebrows, he only smiled at her the type that he knew always melted her inside any time he flashed her one of those.“ Your brother commi
Chapter 44.“ No” Leonard growled out angrily unable to believe his ears. Decanal and Diana communicate with each other? Since all this while and he had no idea? How the hell was that possible? He looked at her half-shift form which reminded him of that night three years ago. When she looked at him with the most vengeful glare ever.“ You will choose him over me? Your brother?” His hold facade was breaking as he looked at his sister with a hurtful expression. If Diana didn't know better, she would have fallen for it but she knew him way too much to know how manipulative he can be.“ Of course, with all your crimes against us, you think I'll choose you?” Diana tsked her tongue as she circled him with a predator smile, her claws itching for a single swing of beheading.“ His kind killed our parents! They separated you from us making you grow up with that abusive man! Diana wake up!” He growled trying to attack Darryl but Diana had him under her hold by wrapping her hands around his nec
Chapter 43.After hours of going on and on in never-ending ecstasy and pleasure, Decanal finally returned the control to Diana who was already exhausted. She blushed slightly as she curled into her mate's open arms. He wrapped his cold arms around her and pulled her closer to him. He placed a kiss on her forehead muttering “ I love you” to her and she nodded with a smile on her face before mouthing it back at him. Her throat was already raw from all the screams and moans.“ I think I should start going” She croaked out to him still feeling the ache between her legs. Her heat was not over but all the many rounds of sex should calm down her body for a while.“ No, little one. Stay with me” He said sniffing her hair and breathing in her scent like a starved animal. “ I will take you back before dawn. Just stay” He muttered, his tone vulnerable as his kingly pride and brave front slipped away revealing a man who had missed his mate so much.His blue eyes stared into her hazel eyes showin
Chapter 42.The first thing Decanal did was stand up and unlock the door. She dragged Diana's wrecked body out of the room after masking her scent so every unmated wolf within their range wouldn't go crazy. She was the only wolf who could do such and she prided herself in her abilities.“ Diana?” Howard said immediately he heard the door open. He stood up and took a look at her but Decanal wasn't up for him. “ You smell different” He purred sniffing the air before he could touch her, Decanal attacked him. She knocked him out flat with just a swing of her fist. She let out her claws and cut her pinky finger. The one she broke earlier to scare Diana, a dark liquid poured out instead of blood, her poison. She placed little on Howard's mouth, not enough to kill him but enough to keep him out the whole night and also give him temporary amnesia.She sat down, ignoring the way her body screamed out in pain at every movement she made. If there was one reason why she begged Diana to take cont
Chapter 41.“ Where the fuck have you been?” Howard asked immediately as he sighted Diana from afar. Diana felt her instinct go wild at the sight of him, her gums hurt as her canine threatened to come out. She took a deep breath before talking to her wolf.“ Decanal No!”“ Why? I can just kill him now and move forward to your brother later” The wolf whined inside her head. She was slowly regretting that she returned Decanal to her body. Although she felt like she was complete again she still felt weird sharing her consciousness with another being.“ You promised” Diana hissed.“ Alright, I won't do anything but I can't promise not to do anything if he manages to make you angry”She walked towards the house while having an internal banter with her other half. It's hard to maintain your cool when all your wolf thinks about is homicide. Howard stared at her waiting for an answer but she said nothing.“ I asked you a question” He barked grabbing her wrist tightly and dragging her closer
Chapter 40“ Strange?” Diana furrowed her eyebrows in confusion.“ Sorry, don't mind me. You didn't visit me ever since you woke up even when you moved into the pack house,” He said staring at her from head to toe. He sniffed the air a little but he couldn't get anything strange from her. Maybe Brittany was lying to him. There was no way Diana could have known about him hiding the portrait of her wolf in that storage room. Even if she regained her lost memories, she couldn't have known the exact location of Decanal.“ Only because your Beta had locked me inside his house like a prisoner. Did you know? That he locked your little sister in a house like some bird in a cage?” She asked with a defensive tone. He sighed and punched in the passcode for his door. She entered after him, he took a seat on his chair while she sat on the chair opposite him.“ He is your mate. He knows the best for you” He simply said without sparing her a glance.“ Even when he doesn't treat me well? He marked me
Chapter 39.“My bad, you cuss a lot these days don't you think?” Decanal's light airy tone said jokingly. Diana could only huff in response. If she doesn't need Decanal to put an end to her brother's sorry ass, she would have just given up on looking for the disrespectful wolf.“ There is a trap waiting for you, Now turn to your left,” Decanal said in a weird high-pitched voice that sounded like Brittany's. Each time, Diana thought her wolf was weird Decanal kept on surprising her by surpassing Diana's expectations. How had they coped with being in one body before?Wait Trap?“ Your little goody shoe friend is a shapeshifter” Decanal informed her as she turned left. It was when she continued walking that realized that she was heading towards her brother's office.“ Little goody shoes? Shapeshifter? Can you be straightforward for once?” Diana grunted while faking a smile to greet a wolf pup that said hi to her.“ Calm down little one” Darryl's soothing voice returned and she let out a
Chapter 38..“ Touch her with your filthy hands and you will lose them faster than you can say 'it' ” Darryl's cold voice slithered through the entire hall and a small smile made its way up to Diana's face at the sound of her mate's voice. Her body trembled violently in want but she calmed herself down, that wasn't the time to lust him. There was a big issue on the ground that she needed to solve.Leonard's face morphed into pure anger as he searched for the direction of the voice. He kicked his Beta who was still clutching his chest in pain out of his way to look for wherever the vampire king was hiding. Diana threw the banquet away and folded her arms watching her brother's rage multiplied by ten folds.“ Show your face, you wretched creature” Leonard growled, his eyes turning pitch black instead of the normal golden color peculiar to when his wolf fights for dominance. Black veins grew in vines around his neck and his skin became deathly pale. Diana gasped in shock at his appeara