JADE
When we are outside the building, I pull back, freeing myself from his hold.
“They didn’t harm me, Lukas. You can’t just go around burning people alive,” I snap, parking my hand at my waist to stop it from trembling.
“Do you have any idea what you are?” he snaps likewise, his eyes ablaze with anger and something else I can't quite place.
“A means to an end—“
“Mine, Jade. Body and soul,” his voice drops to a dulcet, our wolves clashing within us from the unbearable heat pull, “And do you f*****g know what that means?”
My bottom lip quivers, but I quickly suck on it, keeping it tucked between my teeth. If I didn’t know any better, I would have confused my heart with hope. Hope that one day my second chance mate will fall for me completely.
But someone who wears the crown for th
