All Chapters of The Lycan King Who Claimed Me: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

"Finally." The voice inside my head whispered again."I've been waiting for you." I froze. It was not the Shadow King, Elyra, or even the Fourth Guardian. It was the voice of a woman. A voice that sounded exactly like mine. I pressed my hands against my temples. "Who are you?" There was no response. The Moon Crown pulsed thrice. The Fourth Guardian lowered its enormous head."Don't listen to it." My gaze swung toward the creature."You know who that is." The Guardian hesitated a while before finally responding. That terrified me more than anything else."You know.""I know what it wants.""What?" Its golden eyes focused on the Crown."To return." I felt a cold shiver pass through me."Return from where?""From you." The words barely left its mind before the Crown erupted with silver light. I screame and the chamber disappeared. I saw myself someplace else. A palace, a

The Seal shattered and the explosion threw me backward. I hit the sanctuary floor hard enough to knock the breath from my lungs. I couldn't hear nothing for several seconds. Then I started hearing the heartbeat. It was slow, heavy and ancient. I pushed myself up. The air was filled with dust. The Shadow King stood several feet away, staring at the broken Seal. He was no longer smiling, instead, he looked afraid."Mother?" The word came out from my mouth before I could stop it. The woman behind the broken Seal raised her head. Silver hair fell around her face and her features were just as I remembered them. She had my mother's face, her eyes, and my mother's voice. But something was wrong. Her eyes glowed crimson. The same crimson th Shadow King's eyes glowed. She reached through the broken Seal."Aria..." I took a step forward. The Shadow King immediately moved between us."Don't."

"Your war is over,"The ancient queen's voice carried across Moonfall."But yours," Her silver eyes landed on me,"is only beginning." No one moved. Not Kael. Not Rowan. Not Selene. Not even Veyron. The battlefield, once charged with chaos and clashing steel, was deathly silent. I narrowed my gaze on the woman who sat upon the throne. She looked impossibly calm as if she had been expecting this. My mother remained on her knees."Mother," I began but the ancient queen's gaze snapped to her."You have failed me." My mother's face fell."I know.""You allowed the Heart Power to consume you.""I tried to stop it," she whispered."You tried to control it." My mother's gaze dropped to the floor."Yes." The ancient queen turned her attention to me."That is the difference." I stepped forward."What difference?" The queen smiled."You don't need to control the Heart.""I don't understand.""You need t

The sky turned black. For a few seconds, no one moved. The woman standing over the portal watched me with a strange calmness in her expression, as if she'd already won. 'My sister.' The word felt foreign on my tongue. I was an only child. Always had been. Yet here stood a woman with my mother's face, an army at her back, declaring that I was her sister. Kael stepped forward. "Aria, don't listen to her." I continued to watch the woman, my eyes narrowing. "Is it true?" My mother said nothing."Mother?" Her expression twisted into something painful."Aria..." I stepped closer. "Do I have a sister?" A tense silence stretched between us. That was answer enough. My heart constricted in my chest. "You knew." My mother looked down at the ground. "I knew she survived." The woman's smile was wide. "Survived?" she said, nearly laughing. "That's what she calls it?" My mother finally met her gaze. "You were

The door opened completely and darkness waited on the other side. It wasn't ordinary darkness. It moved, it breath and it watched. Lyssara tightened her grip around my hand."Do you feel that?""Yes.""What is it?""I don't know." The First Moon Queen stood behind us."You will." The darkness faded away to reveal a huge chamber. At the center of it all floated a heart-shaped crystal. It was huge. Half of it was silver, while the other half was black. Chains of light wrapped around it. Every beat sent a wave of energy through the chamber. Lyssara stared at it."The Original Heart." The First Moon Queen nodded."The source from which every Moon Queen inherited her power." I took a step forward. The Heart pulsed again and so did something inside of me. I gasped. It wanted me to go to it."Don't." Lyssara grabbed my arm."Something is wrong." I turned to her."What is it?""The black side."