After I died, Alpha collapsed.

ess, mated and marrie

pire nor werewolf; he was not

Kaelen killed hi

ned every drop of my ma

Kaelen came seeking my heart to ens

r lesson? Tell her to offer up her heart,

h, he fell to his knees before my grav

pte

, I was Elara, a pureb

a phantom, a spirit tet

no body temperatur

over the only thing I had lef

s depletion of his magic, Lucian was trapped i

en two worlds, ac

f-breed, a walking symbol of the Princess who ha

onster, a hairless, scentless anoma

he was my

watched the elder vampires kick him into the mud simply

ary, resting silently on a slab of mag

hispered, his voice echoi

mune to the biting chill, and curl his ti

s and began to ch

ewolf bloodline-flared in his palms. He would press his glowing hands

throwing myself over him. "Lucia

rough his trembling shoulder

d briefly regain a soft, pale hue, and

rever trapped in a child's shell. He was five hundred years old, yet he sacrificed

the crook of my freezing neck. "I can't hold on much lo

om tears that vanished before they even hit

ing daily routine was

father, was coming. He wanted to t