MasukSarah’s POVThe vampire council authenticated the bloodline with my father, where he told them he wouldn’t be King anymore. That since finding me, he wished to live his remaining time at the Moonhaven temple, where he could be reached for counsel but nothing more.He saw that I was crowned Queen and
“She has been here with you?” he asked in his booming voice.“Of course,” Nyssandra said, “Why would she want to be with you when she has us.” She leaned over and hugged my mother. They laughed. My father frowned at them not amused. He walked over and touched my face. “You are just as beautiful as y
Sarah’s POVHeld tightly against Sebastian’s side, we walked back to my mother’s cottage.“Your father is going to be overwhelmed with you and Naevia.”I leaned my head against his chest. “That is why I wanted him to see her first. That was more of a shock. I’m more like a prize.”He spun me around
Sebastian’s POVWhen Nyssandra opened the door, sunlight poured down on us, and the King and I shielded our eyes as we walked onto a sandy beach. Waves broke and hurried over to greet us. As my eyes adjusted, the thread pulled me forward, blood burning painfully now.The King was rubbing his chest a
Sebastian’s POV I walked the garden grounds, grass curling beneath my toes. I ran a hand through my hair. I was unable to sleep, yet again. Her golden eyes haunted me. I dreamt of her every night for years. It couldn’t be a dream. She had to be out there, and I would find her.The moon was high ton
Sarah’s POV Broken-hearted and alone, it took me seven days to travel to the far end of my father’s vampire kingdom, to the ancient Moonhaven temple. The Oracle would understand my grief and take me to my mother. I knew I could present myself to my father and have him do the blood test to confirm m
It didn’t take much before he blinked up at me with black eyes again. Those eyes were intoxicating. It meant primal power, primal need. He stood and lay me against smooth rock and began to pump inside me, building heat, core tightening around him. Opened wider for him, he lifted a leg and drove hard
Sarah’s POV “Leave.”He violently shook.“Please.” He ground out a desperate plea.I touched his face. “No.”He glared down at me, eyes black as night. That look of raw steel would have scared many. I knew his heart. He would never hurt me. I ran my hand over his body again.His head fell back, and
Sebastian’s POV I’d lost all control, again, the young man from my youth—crazed, frantic, surviving off primal instinct.It had been hundreds of years since letting that part of me lose. Sarah was driving me to the brink of complete self-destruction. I had slipped into a blood rage for days, and I
Sebastian’s POVI was in emotional chaos, not knowing how to handle my feelings for Sarah, the political issues raging around her, and how my King, my friend, was about to use her.My fangs sank into my wrist, and I swallowed. Feeding on myself was the only way to quell the rage within.Blood coated







