<h4>Chapter 196: Chapter 196</h4>


    [SAMANTHA’s Point of View]


    Richard was messing with my husband’s head.


    And I would never let him!


    "You both need to stay here and not go anywhere unless I give you permission, do you understand?!" I whispered gently to my children as I held both their shoulders and made them focus on me. I felt their trembling, but I saw in their eyes that they tried to fight the fear, knowing that I had to help their father down the hallway before Richard said anything more that would make my husband lose control and make foolish decisions. “I will help your dad and you stay hidden where the shadow werewolves won’t find you.”


    “We will stay here no matter what.” It was Devon who answered with determination on his face as he held his sister’s shoulders with sharp, brave eyes. “I will look after Diana, Mom. Don’t worry.”


    I stared at Devon’s eyes, hesitating to go. But that determination in his eyes told me that I could trust him. He would never let anything bad happen to his twin sister, so I felt confident that I could go help Dominic against Bet, who wasughing like a crazy while ring at my husband, who was clutching his head after that old bastard revealed a ridiculous revtion that no one would ever believe.


    The former Alpha of the Silver Crescent pack died in thest war against the wild hybrids on the other side of the mountain ranges, where the borders of the Silver Crescent territory lie. They said they never found the body, but a limb was found, and it had the n ring his father had.


    Everyone assumed he was dead after he disappeared for five years. There was a funeral, and I watched how devastated Dominic was. I wasn’t sure if he was close with his father. His father was cruel to him, I had heard. But I saw the pain in Dominic’s eyes that day. He grieved for his father. And hearing that the former Silver Crescent Alpha was still alive, I knew it would hurt Dominic more than anything else.


    I had to stop Richard Bete. I would kill him!


    Dominic fought hard, and I marveled at how he dealt with the giant shadow werewolves that were summoned back from the dead. Richard was cornered. And I couldn’t believe he would use that lie on Dominic, thinking he could escape from his imminent death.


    I would never let him leave this ce alive! He will pay for what he did to Lena, to the people of the Silver Crescent pack, and to my family!


    He will pay it with his life!


    “Samantha! I told you not to—”


    “I can’t watch you being tormented like this!” I said softly, almost a whisper, to my husband as soon as Inded in front of him, ring at the old man. “The kids are safely hidden. Devon will take care of his twin sister.”


    “Samantha, you know this is dangerous!” he snarled at me, baring his teeth in pain.


    “I know,” I answered softly, my eyes pleading as I nced back at my husband with teary eyes. “And I can’t let you fight alone, Dominic. I am here.”


    I saw how his eyes widened a little as the pain on his face gradually disappeared and was reced with surprise and awe—I wasn’t sure what he was feeling because I felt waves of emotion that I had never felt before in him through the mate bond.


    There was only one way to find out what would happen, so I sliced my palm, swung it, and sttered the blood on the altar. I didn’t know what would happen next or if it would work even without my twin’s blood, but I had to try. I had to know if I was enough to make this work!


    The souls surrounding the ce howled as they tasted the blood that had been ruling thesends for centuries. I sensed their thirst. Their hunger. They wanted more. They wanted me!


    To my disappointment, nothing happened to the altar. It didn’t open or reveal something.


    My blood wasn’t enough, and it terrified me more than anything.


    But what shocked us all was Killian’s sudden appearance! After he left the cave, I failed to feel his presence again, and I hoped deep within me that he went back to the Silver Crescent pack house to his mate—to Brianne. But he went back for us all! He went back and smashed something on the floor.


    “Killian! How?!” I asked in disbelief as I saw the w rolling on the floor. It wasn’t just any w! It was Dominic’s father’s w! How did he get it?!


    Killian, who was still in pain from the wound that was poisoned with silver, answered me through his gritted teeth as he panted, still catching his breath and leaning against the altar.


    “I found this on the man who was with him, standing in the shadows!” Killian snarled and shot a lethal re at the unconscious man lying on the floor. “I have a feeling they are going to do something with this.”


    “Alpha of the MoonStone Pack!” Richard Bete couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw Killian. “How can you resist the darkness in you!? You should be obeying my orders!”


    “F*ck you, Bet!” Killian spat on the old man. “You will end here, you *sshole! I will end your miserable life here and make you pay for what you did!”


    “Not if I kill you first!”


    It was toote for all of us to anticipate what happened next.


    Olivia appeared unexpectedly out of thin air. Her phantom form danced through the smoke that suddenly billowed in front of us with a silver de in her hand. Her face shed before my eyes, and the point of her de pointed to my chest. Any second and I would have died from it, but Killian got between us first before the de reached me and stabbed him on the shoulder instead, making him scream from the excruciating pain as the silver started to pierce and burn his flesh.


    “Killian!”


    Dominic lunged at Olivia, but she disappeared once again, hiding among the shadows. I was so shocked that I couldn’t move as I watched Killian kneel in front of me with the de still pierced through his shoulder.


    “Killian, no!”


    I caught him before he fell on the floor.  His face was so pale as he looked at me with his eyes almost half closed as he whispered, “When your mother saved me, she brought the... she brought the...”


    “What are you walking about, Killian!” I cried in panic and horror as I saw the wound look like it was rotting, and dark veins started to spread around his shoulder. “Why did you do that?!”


    The next thing that happened filled me with even more terror when I heard my baby girl, Diana, scream from the top of the mezzanine floor. My eyes widened when I saw Olivia standing behind my little girl, with her ws pointed at Diana’s neck and threatening to hurt her. My body trembled. Cold sweat filled my forehead, and I could barely breathe. I thought I was going to faint, but I couldn’t. I wouldn’t!


    “You let my father go, and I won’t hurt these little pup!” Olivia yelled. Her voice sounded like it was from the underground, and it gave chills that went deep into my bones. “The soluble keys don’t work! Your blood doesn’t work! Maybe I can just kill both of them!”


    Dominic had his focus fixed on Olivia, and at a speed that couldn’t be seen even with a werewolf’s eyes, he jumped at Olivia and managed to drag her away from my little girl. Olivia screamed in pain when Dominic stabbed her with his w on her side, but she grabbed him by the neck and stabbed him as well with her w.


    “Dominic!”


    All I could do was scream! Everything happened so fast that my brain couldn’t keep up,” I croaked to him, with tears streaming down my face. Then, I lunged up to the mezzanine floor, where I found Devon unconscious on the floor and Diana crying while hiding behind a column.


    “Mommy!” She ran to me crying, her arms spreading to wrap around my neck, and I embraced her back as I shook Devon gently, trying to wake him up after I confirmed that he was fine and still breathing.


    “Oh, Diana, I am so sorry, I am so sorry, sweetheart!” I cried as I held her tight. “Mommy’s not going anywhere!”


    “Mom! Dad’s in trouble! Please help him!” Diana cried as well as she pointed her little finger at Dominic, who was thrown against the wall. The impact destroyed it. I saw how Dominic wasn’t able to move for seconds as Olivia started to strut towards him, ready to kill my husband.


    I couldn’t leave the kids. But my husband was in danger! I never wanted him to get killed!


    “Mom, save Dad!” Diana cried with fear.


    “G*dd*mnit!” I cried, leaving Diana, who kneeled in front of her brother with terrified eyes as she watched me go after Olivia. Olivia must have felt my presence and immediately jumped away from my husband, whom I found groaning on top of therge chunks of debris underneath him.


    “Why can’t you just die, Olivia? Look what you did to yourself! You are no longer a she-wolf! You are a wraith! You made yourself a monster!”


    “YOU F*CKING DID IT TO ME, SAMANTHA!” she screamed back, her eyes wide with rage. “You took everything away from me! So will kill everyonewho is important to you!”


    I nced at my husband and saw that the wound caused by Olivia’s ws started to cken, and dark veins started to spread on his side. Poison!


    Rage started to burn in my chest as my eyes turned liquid gold, my power surfacing as I felt it surge all over me, spreading like wildfire all over my body. I curled my hands into fists as I red at Olivia, baring my razor teeth at her. All I wanted was to end her! She and her father, who was a huge threat to all of us! To all the people who lived on this continent!


    With the wolf w ne that was in my pocket, I slit my forearm with it and bright warm light streamed from the opening of the wound. Everyone present in the grand hall stared at the light and marveled at its terrifying beauty and warmth. The power was so strong that I started to get overwhelmed by it, and I threw my head backward, hearing my mother’s voice in my head.


    “The blood of the Primordial wolf can break all curses.”


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