Chapter123: Cutting the Thread

ALANA   It felt like all the blood in my body had been drained when I saw him staring back at me.   Did he see how my body is rejecting his blood and scent? Did he see how difficult it was for me to drink his blood even when he knows that I am his mate?   But he also knows your real identity, Alana. He knows that you are from the clan of his enemy and this is fate's way of saying that you will never be together, the small voice in my head said, rendering me helpless for the next seconds.   He looked into my eyes pleadingly and shook his head at me. “Please stop it now,” I read his mouth. “I don’t want to see you suffering anymore.”   I shook my head too in reply and took the vial in my shaking hands while not cutting off our gaze. No, I will never surrender. I will win this contest no matter what!   In a heartbeat, I opened my mouth and drank the blood in the vial feeling the liquid scalding my throat.   “Alana, no!” William screamed from the tower and jumped down towards me but the gu