CHAPTER 37 – THE CONFRONTATION
Elena POV
As soon as Lucian left the healer's cottage, the air around the packhouse got tense, like a storm was about to break the sky. I could feel it: a pulse in the ground under my feet and an electric tremor.
Damian was here.
And Lucian was aware.
The pack did too. They kept looking back and forth between the Alpha, who was barely holding himself together, and the line of trees. He looked at me once, just once, and in that brief moment, I saw everything: fear, possessiveness, heartbreak, and determination.
And love.
"Stay inside," he said in a low, rough voice. "Elena... please."
He had never said please like that before. Not as an Alpha. Not like a man. Not as someone who had just bled for me a few hours ago.
But before I could answer, before I
