Lucian’s POV
“Lucian, are you…okay?” Aria’s voice caught me off guard.
I glanced toward the bushes again where my men were hidden, lying in wait for Darius. Even though it had been a false alarm earlier, I’d instructed them to remain on high alert. Darius was unpredictable—a bastard who could infiltrate my pack at any moment. Right now, they were taking shifts, watching, waiting in the dark. That’s what I’d been focused on—the subtle movement of the leaves, the soft rustle to my right… and then my left.
That’s why I was here.
The real mystery was how Aria even knew where to find me. She’d said someone strange pulled her here, but I suspected something deeper. Just yesterday, I realized her wolf wasn’t gone—it had been dominant and suppressed all this time.
Now, that wolf was getting r
