All Chapters of The Pure-Hearted Princess and the Kiss of Darkness: Chapter 161 - Chapter 170

~ KATALEYA ~It’s too intense, the power around me is excruciating, tearing into my skin, the pain making my eyes sear and it’s too much… I’m falling deeper into the depths of wherever this is.The Goddess’s scream of rage claws inside of my head and it’s as if it’s about to burst. The crawlers’ screams keep intensifying until my ears are ringing and then everything mutes out.I can’t breathe, and my body soon becomes numb. The pain is too intense to focus on anymore. I’m falling quickly, spiralling and falling, and the pain suddenly disappears and all I can feel is an empty dark blanket all around me.I think I’m floating in nothingness. I can’t see anything… I’m not sure if my eyes are open or shut.Where am I?Where is this place?My body isn’t hurting anymore, but I also can’t move at all. Is this the afterlife?Is there really no heaven? Is it just… emptiness?‘Heaven? You will never enter heaven, not after what you did.’The Goddess, she’s still here, but I can’t feel the power o

~ KATALEYA ~“So where to now, Luna?” Jose asks. We had just finished grabbing some supplies we needed.“Call me Kataleya, please, Jose.”“I’ll try when we are alone, but it feels wrong,” he replies apologetically from the driver’s seat. I wish it didn’t make him uncomfortable, but if it does, then I can’t force him, not for my preference. I offer him a gentle smile.“Then call me Luna if it’s what you prefer. I don’t mind.”He gives me a small smile and nod. “Thank you, Luna. So, you said there was another stop?”“Yes, to the bank, please. Enrique’s mother has a safe deposit box there, and I thought since we’re out here anyway, why not stop by.”We had emptied what could be salvaged from the packhouse, and that meant everything that belonged to Enrique’s family. It is all now stored at the villa. We found the key to the safe deposit box, and I know she left the jewels to me, but if there is anything that Enrique is ok with me selling, it could help towards the steep costs of rebuildin

~ ENRIQUE ~I look up as the scene unfolds.“You’re insane, Madre! What are you even saying?!” Carlos shouts.“I did what I had to! He needs to die for his family’s sins! Remember, I told you; you have a purpose, and you must always be ready for it? This is it! To end them!”“Yes! I thought you meant that about being the best Delta I can be to Enrique! He’s been nothing but good to me – to us. Have you gone mad, Madre?”“Are you going to defy your madre’s wish?! His family has done nothing but destroy us for centuries! We will get revenge!” she hisses.Carlos flinches, his heart thudding loudly in the room. I glance at the man who sits on the ground, his eyes full of sadness and regret. Signs that he is not a traitor, but I mask my relief as I continue to observe the scene before me.“I need to go to him!” Carlos runs towards the door, but he then convulses, falling to his knees. “What have you done to me?”“Nothing that will harm you. Now listen to what I need to share with you,” she

~ KATALEYA ~“Has everyone eaten?” I ask Azura quietly.She looks back at me and shakes her head. “Not everyone,” she says. Her face is pale, but her eyes still look vibrant even without an ounce of makeup.Today was Rayhan’s funeral.So many came to pay their respects to one of the most influential alphas of our time. Someone who has helped thousands.I’ll never forget Mama Mari’s unwavering strength as she kept her head high, her shoulders squared as she comforted her daughters. Nor the way Sienna broke down at her Dad’s empty coffin, sobbing. Or the way Heaven and Alessandra ran to hug her, not caring about anything else but to comfort their friend as she begged him to come back to her.I’ve never seen Alessandra so visibly upset as I did today or the way Sienna shouted at them to stop the funeral, pleading that he couldn’t be dead.She refused to take part in the burial as we lowered an empty coffin into the ground. Her screams of anguish still chill me. I couldn’t go to her. She d

~ ENRIQUE ~Four weeks have passed since the final person was laid to rest that night. We close that chapter and move on to a new day, a day that will become a week, and a week to a month, but those days will always hold the reminder of the past.The packhouse is complete, and we have decided to make the villa our home. It’s the only place that now has any remnant of my parents and Hugo left, especially with the destruction of the packhouse. I just wish I spent a little time memorising those halls.It was Kataleya’s idea to make the villa our home. We’re going to renovate, make it more ideal for our needs, but we have got quarters at the packhouse too.Things are working well; Haala offered her help, and I offered her a rank among our people and promised her safety. Jose and Marie marked one another and have moved together into the new beta quarters of the packhouse. They’re happy and clearly in love, and I realise with some irony that both my friends have ended up with women I once sa