Louisa's POV
"What?!" I couldn't believe what I had heard.
Pregnant? I'm pregnant with Lucas' child?!
But, I have to tell Darren that I...
Then, I heard a wave of hysterical laughter coming from Derek.
"The prophet's true! The advent child! The Dark King rises! He who has Lycan, witch, and vampire's blood will marry his mother and be the tyrannic ruler in the Kingdom!"
Every single word was like a knife, stabbing my heart.
Was it a vicious curse? Or just some disturbing nonsense coming from a madman?
Then, before I realized it, my ankle was grabbed fast by Derek. I tried to move back, but I couldn't.
Frost started to spread all the way up from my feet at a fast rate.
I didn't know what happened before my whole legs were sealed in frigid ice.
"No! Stop it!" I saw Vincent and Will trying to pull Derek away from me. But they ended up pulling the remaining of his legs off his body.
More sparkling ice was climbing up my torso, spreading across my upper arms.
"No... Don't do it... Let her go! Brother!" Darren tried to stop Derek, but he couldn't.
"I have to end this, brother! For once in my life, I have to do the right thing!" Derek shouted.
The last thing I saw was the fanatic chilliness in Derek's eyes.
Then, my vision was blocked by snow and ice.
Lucas's POV
"Where the fuck did the sun go?" I lifted my head and saw the sun was completely blocked by a fucking dark round plate-shaped shadow.
Now the fucking sun was turning into a fucking orange circle. I really need to fuck someone right now in case the whole world starts to burn.
But it turned out the world wasn't going to burn.
Instead, it started to snow, with fucking bone-chilling north wind and everything.
I stretched out my hand and saw the fucking snowflakes melting inside my palm.
It's fucking real deal. Real snow.
I hate snow more than anything else in the world and it is fucking snowing in the mid of summer.
"The Dark Prince keeps riding, to a place where snow is awaiting," the tuna head druid mumbled. "It's just like the prophecy."
"Stop blabbing about the prophecy. Does the prophecy tell you that I will smash you into a paste and put you inside a can?" I said.
The tuna head covered his head and said, "Sorry, Sir. I won't say anything anymore."
Lucian pointed at the front and said, "Luke, the warehouse."
I looked up and saw a fucking dilapidated shack.
The snow and wind were getting strong, slowly turning into a blizzard.
And the center of the blizzard was that fucking shack.
I jumped off my horse and kicked the fucking door open, getting into the shack.
Everything inside the shack was covered in heavy snow and ice.
I kept moving forward and finally managed to get to the inner part of the shack.
Then, I saw it.
A fucking humanoid popsicle standing right there like a fucking statue.
And I saw him.
Derek.
Well, technically speaking, I saw only half of him.
His legs were completely missing.
His younger brother Darren was lying next to him. They were covered by snow and I couldn't tell if they were still alive.
Vampire Vincent and his son Will were trying to break the humanoid popsicle.
Alex and his fucking boyfriend Colt were helping them.
A bunch of fucking idiots. Element ice can't be broken by force.
But wait a minute.
All the mother fuckers are here except my woman, which means that...
My woman was trapped inside that fucking humanoid popsicle?!
"Vincent, what happened?" Lucian asked.
"Derek frost Louisa with ice. We can't get her out," Vincent said.
"Give my mom back to me!" Will shouted and jumped at Derek, but he was caught and stopped by Vincent.
I walked next to Derek and looked down at him.
He was still alive, but he wasn't going to stay alive for long.
He saw my boots and then he suddenly looked up at me.
His hair and eyelashes were covered by ice.
Tears came out of his eyes and immediately froze into ice.
"Master..." he said in a trembling voice.
I saw the empty void in his left chest, where his heart used to be.
He ripped off his heart to eliminate my imprint.
Fucking piece of trash. He can't survive for one minute without me.
"I'm not your master anymore," I stared at him and said in a cold voice. "What have you done to my woman?"
He said in a broken voice, "Master... I have to do it... She's pregnant right now... Her son will become a tyrant and kill every single Gifted One in this kingdom..."
"Can you blame someone for doing that?" I said.
Derek crawled to me and said, "I haven't killed her, Master... I have just preserved her with element ice... I know she's your mate... If I kill her, you'll soon be dead..."
"Isn't that what you want?! Killing me?!" I bent over and shouted at him while putting my hands in my pockets.
Derek stretched out his arms and said, "No... Master... I was wrong... I knew you wanted to protect me... I was so stupid to believe those traveling druids... They told me horrible things about you... And I shouldn't have believed them... All I wanted to do was to stay with my brother... Master..."
"Did you help those fucking traveling druids to assassinate me and abduct my Beta's wife?" I asked relentlessly.
Derek replied in despair, "I didn't want to do it... Alpha Dire asked me to do it... He's the Red Queen's bastard son and he wanted to murder you, Lycidas, Zackery, and Zabel to get back at you for the death of his mother! He bribed your Gamma Kylo to take away your army and let Kylo's sister Josephine create chaos in your camp. So they can come back to kill all of you at your wedding!"
"Dire wants to kill Lycidas? He was the one who sheltered him while the Red Queen wanted to kill him!" I said.
"The Red Queen never wanted to kill Lycidas... He's her grandson and she wanted to protect him... As well as her granddaughter Louisa... It was Alpha Dire who abducted Lycidas and Louisa. King Duko managed to take Louisa away and send her back to Alpha Jacob of the Crimson Pack. But he couldn't save Lycidas at that time... Lycidas later managed to run away from Alpha Dire and sneaked to the north... And then he met you... Master, I'm not lying to you... I'm telling the truth..."