Lucian
Dexter stirred uneasily inside me. A growl escaped my lungs and vibrated through my chest. Asher. The little boy whose father I had allowed to be killed in that sacred pack.
Why is this happening?
Why is my pack crumbling to pieces? I am failing so much as an alpha and I hate it. The reins of control and orderliness that I once held felt misplaced. Nothing feels right anymore.
Each moment I try to fix something or face a challenge, another complex one surfaces and threatens to break me. This has started happening ever since Maddox and his daughter arrived, and after that moment I rejected Fiona.
My rejected mate wants to destroy me, and so does the man whom I have trusted for an alliance. My eyes darted around the commotion, but Maddox wasn’t anywhere in sight.
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