Ash’s POV
I cut through Lucien’s protectors as a hurricane of straw and sticks slashing the village. My True Alpha nature had exploded, unbound and unfocused, ripping through me like wildfire that devoured all within its reach. For every enemy I carved down, for every wall I broke in pieces, I was that much closer to where I knew Lena lay behind rock and spells.
"Get out of my way!" I growled at any who dared try to slow me down. Some of them were my own coerced troops, wolves that I was driving through coercion they could not deny. I hardly noticed as they fell before my claws, rarely heeded their deaths. They were obstacles. Inconveniences. Nothing but obstacles in my way.
The first, fundamental truth that had struck me when I stopped fighting being who and what I truly am was the con
