Kayla POV Everything had happened so fast. Moments before, we had returned from the Forsaken realm, victorious in battle. Now, Ace was falling to the ground, his eyes bleeding, after hearing the words of the dark priestess. I caught him just before he hit the ground and cried out in pain at the sight of his injured eyes. "I see the world brighter when you are around me," his words echoed in my ears as I remembered what he used to say to me. "Ace!" I screamed his name, my fingers trembling as I touched the blood in his eyes. "What have you done to him?" I demanded of the Dark Priestess. A sly smirk hid beneath her veil as she pointed at me. "You cursed him with the darkness in your heart," she stated, then turned to the Alpha King and Luna Queen. "If you allow her to live, the princes

