LUCAS’ POV
I left before dawn, slipping from the den like a shadow. Selene was sleeping when I stepped away from her feverish, restless, her body still healing from wounds that should never have happened. I told myself it was better that she didn’t wake. Better that she didn’t ask where I was going. Better that she didn’t see the part of me that hardened every time Steven’s name crossed my mind.
I hated what he had done to her, I hated the fact that he had acted without letting me know. This was something that we had planned to do together but it wasn’t supposed to happen now, it was supposed to happen on the day she broke her mate bond. Now he had risked my plan, he had risked everything and almost ruined it and all for what? Dante didn’t even come, his plan didn’t work as well as he th
