Lucien

rongest Lycan alive-no one came close, and no one dared to challenge me. Years ago,

just to avoid paying it. As a Lycan, I didn't even need an army to raze his pack to the ground; I could slaughter him and his guards

essness seized my wolf, Guru. He clawed at my chest,

it me-the

themselves at me for years, but I had never cared for them; my only focus was conquest. Yet the pull was

ing her into the shadows and claiming her right then and there. It had

need to keep her forever took root in my soul. When she insisted she had business to

never slaughtered when I was in a good mood, so I returne

ouncil had summoned me. Ordinarily, I would have slaughtered the messenger, but my s

my reputation for mercy-less destruction. As they babbled on, my mind drifted constantly ba

weak chatter, I stood up and

e of your daughters. A virgin of Alpha blood to serve as a sacrifice for my father's

reak her slowly. And when I am done with her, I will come back for your oth

ore to say to weaklings. My word is final. I have been far too

ng for a reply

ot in the woods, waiting for her arrival. But as the

o agitation. *Was somet

I was just about to shift and hunt her down

hattered-snapping clean in half as if her v

ding her scent? Had someone taken her? She hadn't seemed

cing my study like a caged beast

ery neighboring pack immediately. Search for a female beari

pha. However... Alpha Vincenzo has just arrived at t

hall. Vincenzo stood trembling near the entrance alongside a girl draped in

aching out to grip her slender neck, forcin

ma

t clear what you are to me," I growled, watching her shudder violently under m

ted over her pale face, her bowed shoulders, and the quiet defiance hidden beneath her terror. A strange, suffoc

this girl was ent