Khalani POV
“Lucas, are you completely out of your mind?”
The words rip out of my throat before I even hit the bottom of the concrete stairs. My boots slam against the wet tarmac of the car park.
On the ground, Lucas is sprawling like a run-over dog.
“Answer me, you absolute i***t!”
He does not answer. He just groans, his fingers clutching at the gravel.
His family runs some pathetic, no-name little Pack in the middle of nowhere. They have no backing. They have no power. Yet this absolute peasant thought he could use his pheromones to corner Penelope? He thought he could actually lay his hands on her?
He must have a death wish.
Before I can even reach him, Julian moves.
His heavy boot cracks right into Lucas’s ribs. The sound of fracturing bone echoes across the empty tarmac.
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