LUCIAN

It had been two days since Ella and I saw each other in the woods, but I still hadn’t gotten over how I felt when our skin touched.

That, and the way the pack meeting made me feel. At first, I had brushed it off as nothing and focused on the physical part of it because most of the conflicts we had were always settled by combat.

But as I walked home that evening, I felt something else stir within me. If I was already facing these internal conflicts before even taking over the leadership of the pack, I didn’t want to find out how difficult it would be...