The Lycan King and his Dark Temptation (Valeria) novel Chapter 240

NARRATOR

Footsteps echoed over the damp earth as the storm had finally subsided.

The forest was destroyed and lifeless, blackened in a radius of nearly a kilometer from the battleground.

Fortunately, they had moved far enough from the mansion; otherwise, Sigrid would have been exposed.

"I think explanations are unnecessary," Sigrid stood before them, ready to be brief and to the point.

This encounter with her ancestors was more bitter than sweet.

"Mr. Vlad has probably already explained our deal to you..."

"I… I’m sorry. I was too impulsive," Renata admitted, and that was one of the few apologies she’d ever given in her life.

"I don’t forgive you," Sigrid snapped back harshly, "especially for what you did to Silas. We’re only having this 'friendly' conversation because you saved him in the end."

Renata frowned but didn’t argue.

After all, Silas had been the first to attack her, but she understood he was only defending the woman he loved. This whole mess was fueled by love and jealousy.

"You know, don’t you?" Sigrid added suddenly.

After exposing herself like that, it was impossible for Renata not to have figured it out.

The Selenia princess merely nodded, letting out a sigh.

"Good. If you’ve figured it out, that makes things easier for me." Sigrid felt as though a weight had been lifted from her heart.

At last, everything would be simpler.

"I’m here to help, not to threaten..."

"I know, and we want to support you," Renata quickly replied, seeing the relief deep in Sigrid’s eyes.

How disastrous must the future be for the Goddess to make such a decision?

"Then I’ll get straight to the point. It seems you have a war brewing over your throne. Lucrecia Silver is plotting in the shadows to overthrow your crown. Families like the Vlads are backing her—it’s obvious."

She exposed her great-great-grandfather without mincing words.

"And I think you’ve noticed the peculiarities of my elemental. That’s Lucrecia’s doing. She’s scheming very dark things with elementals, which you supposedly forbid from being enslaved."

She attacked the crown’s incompetence without mercy.

Renata couldn’t argue. Fighting against slavery, when everyone was desperate to have descendants, was even more complicated than holding onto the throne.

For now, she focused on Lucrecia’s experiments. That deranged witch was extremely dangerous and had too many followers.

And Sigrid didn’t refuse. Pride wouldn’t win this war.

She lowered her head to accept what was offered.

"Sigrid," she said before drinking, and they understood it was her real name.

Her exhausted magic began to stir and bubble like a volcano on the verge of eruption.

She ruthlessly locked away Electra’s spirit, took control of every corner of her body, and armored herself with powerful dark magic.

She would challenge Morgana De la Croix, become the lady of the estate, and the owner of the Risorgimento Book.

In this life, Electra would no longer be second best, and to Drusilla’s sins, she added laying a hand on her Silas.

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Alessandre saw her, determined to do whatever it took, and his heart filled with shame—that a young descendant had more courage than he, an ancient and powerful vampire.

If Sigrid took possession of half the witches, then he would claim the head of the Vlad family, and together they could take down Lucrecia Silver, without Renata, the future Selenia queen, even being involved or implicated.

But to do that, Alessandre would have to make the hardest decision of all.

For the vampires to accept him as the new lord of Clan Vlad, he had to kill the current lord—his father.