Chapter 179
Damien’s POV
I did not expect to see what we did, when the wall of fire dropped. Rain was surprised as well. Judging by Rain’s conversation with Matt and Lillian, we should have been transported outside a barrier. Not inside the Black Magic Coven’s compound. That wasn’t what was surprising me though.
My mate was not only no longer a captive of the Coven, she was now releasing carnage on her former capturers. The feeling coming from my mate was rage. To say
my mate was angry was an understatement. Even covered in the blood of her enemies she was still the most beautiful female I had ever seen.
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I wanted nothing more than to call out her name and rush to her, to grab her up in my arms and crush my mouth to hers. I decided I would wait till she was done with the Coven first. I would never deny her this, we were coming here to kill all these beings anyway.
Starlight, Alora in her Kitsune form, was standing a few feet from a cluster of Coven members. Under her and them were seven rotating blood red mandalas, they looked almost rose like with Starlight at the center. What was interesting was that the Coven members inside the glowing red mandalas were no longer moving.
Not even to toss spells at Starlight as the others were doing. Then they started screaming as ropes of dark red came out of them, and were absorbed into the
mandalas. The Coven members screamed until they could scream no more. Their bodies fell to the ground, looking like dried up husks.
“Oh shit” Darien said in a startled voice next to me, briefly drawing Alora’s attention to us.
“What did she just do?” Kian asked, there was shock and a touch of fear in his voice.
“Blood Harvest.” Kass, Asher, and Nathan answered him in unison. My thought after they said this was, ‘So this is what it looks like.’
“What the fuck is Blood Harvest?” Galen asked.
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“It’s a spell that allows only those with Royal Vampire blood to drain their enemies dry without having to stick their fangs in their enemies throat. Only those of direct lineage to the ruling Vampire Royal family are allowed to have knowledge of this spell. Although it would be stupid to assume the other families wouldn’t have the knowledge, they probably do, they just don’t broadcast that they know.” Victor said.
This surprised me, although it shouldn’t. “Wait…how do you know about it?” Kass asked him.
“Did you forget my mother is your father’s second cousin on his mothers side?” Victor asked her.
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“Oh shit, that means you have Royal blood too.” Bella said.
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Their conversation faded into the background as I looked at Starlight. Only after her last enemy was vanquished, leaving just the sobbing Sarah alive, did her attention return to us. Her gaze locked with mine, and she sauntered over. She looked like a naughty child who had gotten her hand caught in the cooking jar.
However she knew you wouldn’t yell at her for it, you would just think she was adorable and mischievous.
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Then she was right there in front of me, for the first time since she had been ripped from my side, by the bitch sobbing for mercy on the ground not too far from us.. Her smile was loving, her eyes warm pools of her love, then her words broke my last shred of control. I grabbed her up against my chest and kissed her, I kissed her
hard, putting everything I had felt and was feeling in that kiss.
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She melted against me, and kissed me back and opened our link. Our emotions flooded each other, and only magnified the depth of our feelings for each other. It took a lot for me to gain enough control to part our mouths, but that was all I could do. I still could not let her go, I rested my forehead against her crown, our breathing was heavy, coming out in pants at first.
“Starlight.” I said, my voice hoarse.
Starlight smiled and shook her tail, which was still half soaked in blood. Then we were surrounded by everyone. I looked at everyone, saw the longing in their expressions as they looked at my mate. Reluctantly, very reluctantly, I released my mate from my arms. She turned around and a second later stumbled back into me a bit as she was tackled with hugs from her family and friends.
They all started talking at once, I couldn’t separate it all out, but somehow my Starlight did. She talked to every one of them, there were tears and a few sobs. Everyone had missed her and had been worried about her. None of them seemed to care about the fact that she was covered in blood and gore.
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“So um…does anyone else want an explanation on what happened here?” Darien asked. “Also…why is that skank Sarah still alive?*
My mate transformed back into her human fona and the blood seemed to be a little less stark against her dark skin, but her shirt and shorts had been made of båg
colors. So the red of the blood was still very stark but instead of on her fur it was her clothes. Her clothes also seemed torn in places, making me angry at how that could have happened.
I could also now smell the scent of gun oil on her, judging from the patterns of those tears in her clothes, she had been shot. On one of her inner thighs over where an artery would be, was a tear and there seemed to be a trail of blood down her leg. Sniffing a bit, the scent of her blood hit me like a punch in the face.
She had said Sarah had made potshots at her, she didn’t tell me Sarah had hit an artery. I couldn’t stop the snarl that was ripped from my chest. Alora looked at me, and frowned. I looked in Sarah’s direction and my rage at her built, the ground beneath us started to tremble and the air around us started to heat up.
“Damien?” Alora said my name as a question.
“You said she took potshots at you.” I growled out. “You didn’t tell me she struck an artery.”
She instantly looked guilty, I felt her guilt through our bond, she had hid it on purpose. I growled at her, not able to actually voice how I felt about that, but she could feel it. Zane was not happy either, he was very upset. However we both knew why she had done it. Alora never really thought of herself, she was always thinking of others.
“I was only trying to protect you, my love.” She said, and she placed her hands on my chest and rubbed them up and down, trying to sooth me.
I crushed her to me and buried my nose in her hair, and just breathed her in. “Tell me…why is Sarah still alive?” I asked her, needing to not focus on how close to
death my mate had come, and that I hadn’t been there at that moment.
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“The Moon Goddess had decided on a retribution for Sarah, as for her wolf Lilith, she had other plans. She’s gifting Sarah’s wolf to a being that is deserving of Lilith and her spécialness.” She told me.
I was confused, but I figured it was only a matter of time before everything became clear. I let Alora go after holding her for a moment longer. She looked at our new people and walked over to them. Rain had a nervous look on her face, and Matt was rubbing his hands up and down her upper arms in a soothing gesture. Matt was also whispering something to Rain.
Alora stood in front of Rain and smiled. “You must be the Alpha of my new sister Clan, Clan Alpha Rain Soulfire.” Her voice was warm and welcoming.
Rain looked at her wide eyed, a bit of worship in her expression as she nodded. “Well then, let’s give you and your Clan your final name.” Alora said. “Give me your
hand.” Alora demanded, then she transformed into Selena.
The expression written all over Rain’s face, as she looked at the silver scars that were all over Selena’s skin, was of surprise. Rain gave Selena her hand. “Do you Clan Alpha Soulfire, swear by your blood, you and your Clan’s loyalty to my Clan and I as a sister Clan?” Selena asked in her echoing voice filled with thousands of tiny ringing bells.
Rain looked up at her, her expression serious. “I swear by my blood my Clan’s and my loyalty to you and your Clan as our sister Clan.” Rain’s voice was gentle, and
pure.
With the oath sworn, Selena cut a line across Rain’s palm with her claw, and then one across her own. Then Selena brought both bloody lines together, and I felt the power of that connection, felt the new lives that now belonged to our Clan, as a sister Clan. Rain gasped and looked at Selena in astonishment, probably feeling the
difference in her power almost immediately.
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Then as Selena, my mate walked over to Sarah. Selena stood over Sarah, Sarah couldn’t crawl away, there seemed to be something wrong with her legs. When I looked at her knees, I saw they were broken. The look of fear Sarah was giving my mate told me she was the one who had done it. She must have been interrupted
while dealing with her and broke them to keep her from getting away while she dealt with the Coven members.
*Sarah, you don’t deserve your wolf, but the Moon Goddess said there was someone who does, someone who would appreciate her. There is also a mate waiting for both your wolf and this female, one she has found deserving of having his soul bonded with Lilith.” She said in an echoing voice.
“W..wh..wh..what are you g..g..going to do?” Sarah asked, trembling and stuttering in her fear.
“First, I’m going to strip you of your wolf, then, I’m going to send you to your mother and father.” Selena told her. The coldness I could hear in her voice, and feel through our bond let me know just how little mercy she had left for her half sister.
When Selena started to say a spell in an ancient language that was nearly dead, Sarah started to scream. Awful screams, like her soul was being ripped apart. A silver vapor of a wolf looked like it was literally being ripped from Sarah. When the vaporous wolf was separated, and just hanging in the air like a ghost, Sarah collapsed back to the ground, whimpering in pain.
Then Selena turned and approached the old Witch standing next to Rain. She didn’t ask, she just shoved the wolf into the Witch. The Witch and Rain both looked really startled, then the Witch started to glow with bright moonlight. Her soul and that of the wolf melded together in that moonlight. A red string appeared, and I
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could sense that the red string was attached to the male that had fathered Rain. 5
When the glow of the moonlight settled, the Witch had seemed to go back in time. She was no longer an elderly Witch, she was now a young Werewolf Witch Hybrid. She looked in her twenties, her long hair no longer white, but a platinum blond. Her eyes were now an Icy almost white blue, surrounded by a ring of pale
silver.
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“Treat her well Lillian, Lilith has been through a lot.” Selena told her, then turned back to Sarah. “Now, it’s time for the rest of you to join your parents.”
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Fire surrounded Sarah, a black hole opened above her. Sarah screamed as she was burned to death, her soul screaming as it was dragged into the black hole.
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