Lucas’s breathing grew heavier with every page he read and turned. The secrets contained in this book were so dark that they made him dizzy. He, who had witnessed so much cruelty and sometimes inflicted it on his enemies, was made to tremble by Merlia’s handwriting, which exposed his father’s atrocities as an alpha. And all of it had happened while Lucas was still in his father’s pack, right under his nose, and he had been too naive—or too indifferent—to realize these practices.

I know I’m not an ordinary werewolf. That’s why Alpha wanted me, wanted offspring from me. But he was clever enough not to defile me right away....