ASH
I am still standing in the middle of all of the slaughtered shifters, my lungs burning with exhaustion, my hands and arms covered with blood, and I have a rested feeling growing in my chest. Selena was besieged then, encircled by the very people she had been manipulating and deceiving. At one end, Lucien approached, barely holding back his Lycan appearance. The other was bounded by the two sisters, and their combined output served as a barrier. And back then, there was Lena in the center of it all. My Lena, my mate, and the one I had become obsessively invested in.
Before I shouted her name, before she looked back at me, for a moment – a brutal, perfect, and pure moment – I was whole. I saw clearly what I had become, who Selena had twisted me into. The monster in the mirror had appea
