Sweat trickled down Diana’s cracked lips. Instinctively, she licked the meager drop of liquid to quench the clawing thirst. Her thick jacket had long been discarded along with all the extra cotton cloth that was attached to her. What was left around her body was enough to wrap her up from the blazing sun until her eyes were the only visible part of her body.Diana’s artistry for clothing design was put to the test when she did her best to minimize the possibility of heatstroke. She wondered how many hours she was here in this desert, but she was pretty sure that the sun was supposed to be showing a sign that it was about to set—yet not a bit of change happened!Diana badly wanted to use a spell to summon water like Tuviga, but she did not want to waste her power anymore! She needed to leave here!The moment she felt that inexplainable pain that seeped to resonate even to her wolf, Diana used her magic energy to find the eye of the spell’s formation rather than exhaust herself by splur

As soon as the gigantic scorpions appeared, Diana increased the energy output of the Scepter of Fate.She had come this far. There was no way in hell that she would let Shananel take this round!Determination burned in Diana’s eyes as she took a step forward. The tip of the Scepter of Fate was merely three inches away from the pebbles in the small pond.As cracks littered on the surface of the pebble, the entire desert started to tremble as if an earthquake ensued. This was a sign for Diana to keep moving forward… to keep attacking the eye of the array.Not minding the incoming pincers that hovered over her, Diana raced against time. Slowly, shadows loomed over her as the heavy stench of the scorpion’s mouth blew over Diana.Screech!Diana chose to finish it quickly rather than disrupting the flow right now or it would only backfire and she would have to start from scratch. She did not have the reserve for that. And definitely, she did not have the luxury of time to restart. Diana had

“Please, I beg you…” Alpha Adrian laid Talia gently beside Soleyah. His eyes were staring at Diana as if she was his last saving straw amid the malevolent storm brewing in his heart. “Please, save her. I can pay the price! No matter what the price is, just save her.”Adrian, as an alpha who had participated in the massive witch hunt years ago, knew of the greatest spells of the witches that would enable them to create miracles in exchange for something. He had heard of a witch pulling someone from death’s grasp in exchange for the vitality of that dead person’s loved one’s vitality.With this, Adrian still held on hope in front of Diana—the last known witch he knew aside from Talia.Being the recipient of such hopeful eyes, Diana felt that something was blocking her throat, preventing her from telling Adrian the cruel truth that hope was nearly impossible in this moment. But Diana could not say it, because she herself wanted desperately to hold onto hope no matter how tiny it was.Dia

Two silhouettes lingered amid the darkness. The moon was now covered with clouds, leaving nothing but sheer darkness between the two. Although they were alone outside, there were hundreds of pairs of ears listening attentively inside the heated hut—giving the two the so-called privacy on the surface.Diana and Talia did not care. After all, there was no conspiracy between them, but brewing emotions accumulated for two lifetimes.Diana’s head throbbed ever since she saw Talia’s toothy grin. Like a fog being dissipated in front of her, the veil slowly disappeared. The faceless ‘witch friend’ in Diana’s memory finally had a face.It was Talia.It was her all along.“Why?” So many words left unsaid. No matter how much Diana wanted to express her swirling pit of emotions, she could only come up with one question: why?Why tell her now?Did she also forget about Diana?Was

It was not only Diana who noticed it. Talia, whose perception ability was recovered, heard it too.The two witches, who could sense the slightest snap of a twig beyond any alpha’s sharp senses, froze and looked sharply at one direction with a second interval between them. The rear wolves, especially Jaxon and Liam who were keeping an eye on the ladies, noticed the sudden change of posture immediately.‘What is wrong?’ asked Alpha Liam through the mind-like between him and his mate.Talia’s emotions were immediately ‘felt’ by her six mates. Her emotions were that strong to be able to bypass the isolation spell she cast on herself to temporarily block the bond while they were still in a dire situation. Though her nervousness only lasted a couple of seconds, it did not prevent her mates from knowing her feelings.It was safe to say that after Talia almost crossed the gates of hell, the six domineering alphas of the Night P