Alpha Ryan walked into his home, tired from another long day. The pack was suffering, he could feel their pain almost as if it pierced his flesh. The raku was a sickness none of the healers could cure, and yet it sprang up from nowhere and was threatening to destroy his entire pack. And his father! Lucien drew in a breath and tried not to think of his father, of how the raku was ravaging the old male, destroying his only family before his very eyes, and yet he could do nothing! He, the most powerful male in the pack, the Alpha! And yet he was helpless against this sickness.
The thought of his helplessness annoyed him and drove him to become crueler, more hardened the thought of Clara too.
A cold smile curved on his lips as he thought of Clara, the female who had been his mate. She had
