For a long minute, Elias didn’t move, but I noted the rise and fall of his chest, and how rapidly it increased.
I watched my mate, not daring to touch him just yet, not until I knew that he was in complete control of himself. The last thing I wanted was to do something that would put his lycan in control. It was hard enough to deal with wolves that were out of control… a lycan would be much worse.
“Did they hurt you?” he asked finally, after a moment of silence.
I shook my head. “No one touched me.”
“Did they try?”
I debated lying, but I had a feeling that he already knew the truth.
“Someone wanted to throw something, but the General caught it. He made them go away.”
He let out a shaky exhale before finally turning to me.
His face was devoid of those black lines that I’d come to ac
