Chapter 145. The Impact of Love

Alison’s POV

Pain. It was sharp, searing, and all-consuming.

I barely registered the sound of my own scream as my wolf form collapsed onto the cold, hard ground, my leg pulsing with agony from where Priya’s blade had torn into me. My body trembled violently, the silver of my fur now stained with crimson.

“Alison!” Xander’s desperate voice echoed through the ruins, panic laced in every syllable.

I forced myself to lift my head, but my vision blurred. Through the haze of pain, I saw Priya, her twisted smile sending a chill down my spine.

She wasn’t done.

Her lips moved swiftly, chanting, her voice dripping with venom as she sent a surge of dark magic toward me.

A force so powerful rushed at me that my breath hitched, this was meant to end me.

But before it could, Simone stepped forward.

“No, you don’t!” she hissed, raising her hands.

A surge of bright light erupted from her fingertips, colliding with Priya’s dark spell