[Arissa’s POV]I lifted my hands to block my eyes as the too bright of light that was encasing me threatened to blind me. Despite my attempts at breaking free, I found that the light was a physical thing. A thing so powerful it made escaping impossible.Squinting I found Ivan’s horrified gaze as my body began to feel like it was being ripped to pieces. What the hell was going on exactly? ‘A trap.’ Rosario growled. ‘We let them trick us!’At her words, my heart clenched painfully. Shit, I was careless and now I couldn’t do anything except watch the world around me disappear. When the light finally began to subside, I found myself standing in the middle of a large round room. Surrounding me were more of the cloaked bastards that had attacked the Baculum tribe's compound."Who are you?" I snarled, attempting to attack but finding that I was unable to move. "LET ME GO AND FIGHT YOU COWARDS!"Maybe trying to instigate a fight wasn’t the best of ideas, but just the feel of being helpless

[Arissa’s POV]I opened and closed my eyes, entertaining myself with the dead children that disappeared and reappeared with each blink. Playing this game was the only thing keeping me sane as pain and exhaustion rushed through me.Letting out a sigh, I looked around until my eyes came to rest on my mother and father as they stood in the corner together."Enjoying this?" I called. "I bet you are right, mother."In a flash, she was suddenly in front of me, causing a yelp of shock to escape me."You deserve this." She purred, lifting a clawed hand and gripping my chin. "You ruined everything.""Yeah, yeah," I hissed, jerking my head away. "I’ve been hearing that pretty fucking often these days."Wincing at the feeling of my skin being pierced, I continued to stare into my mother’s hollow eyes. If I had known that she was going to haunt me like this, I would have left the bitch alive. At least when she was still warm and breathing, she wasn’t up my ass like this."Could you get the hell o

[Ivan’s POV]Heat pressing strongly against my skin was the first thing to break the darkness that was encompassing me. It wasn’t necessarily too hot, but it was extremely uncomfortable and made it impossible to ignore.Opening my eyes, I stared above me at what looked like the roof of a cave, but flared occasionally from fire that was snaking its way through it."What the hell?" I growled, slowly sitting up and taking in my surroundings. "Where am I?"As I took everything in, images of Arissa’s horror-filled face flashed across my mind, reminding me of the events that led up to this.Dammit! That bitch that cursed Arissa managed to play quite the trick on me. All the memories were now rolling in like waves from the earth beneath my feet opening up like a giant mouth to eat me, unable to avoid being swallowed up by it.What the hell was I supposed to do now? No matter how you twisted it, I was trapped here and escaping the way I entered just wasn’t an option. However, as I continued t

[Arissa’s POV]"Hans!" I gasped. "It isn’t what you think!"Instead of responding, Hans continued to take everything in with a blank expression. It was fucking maddening not being able to tell exactly what he was thinking, but would Ivan’s most trusted men be any less?Snapping my gaze from Hans, I found ghostly Ivan standing in his corner again, watching everything unfold in amusement. Snarling, I bared my teeth in warning."What is it?" Hans asked, snapping my attention back to him. "You look like you’ve seen a ghost, Luna.""Something like that." I growled."Pardon?""Hans, what happened?" Igor called, suddenly appearing.Fuck, was everyone going to show up and see this?"Uh..." Igor gasped, immediately locating Christine. "Why?""The jinns." I responded quickly. However, I didn’t expect either of them to believe me. Hell, if I didn’t watch it happen, I wouldn't have either. "They’re not gone.""But you killed the caster of the curse." Hans countered, frowning.I prepared to respon

[Arissa’s POV]"Repeat that." I said, trying to remain calm. "I think I misheard you."I watched as Nazhoni froze, causing a look of panic to cross Igor’s face. By the way Nazhoni’s expression was growing more and more tense, I knew that I didn’t. Those bastards were clearly conspiring against us this whole fucking time, and now that Ivan wasn’t around, they were taking action."Now, Luna," Igor tried as I began to shake with rage. "Try to remain calm. We’ll figure this out.""Figure it out." I growled, narrowing my gaze. "They are not only trying to take over what belongs to Ivan, but now they’re trying to have anyone who could vouch for him or me killed." Even though I knew that Igor and the others weren’t my enemies, I couldn’t control the anger that was finally boiling over after months of trying to hold it all in. "Not to mention they currently have my children hidden somewhere! I don’t even know if they’re okay and you’re telling me to try to remain calm?"Feeling a sudden burst