LUCIAN It had been two days since Ella and I saw each other in the woods, but I still hadn’t gotten over how I felt when our skin touched. That, and the way the pack meeting made me feel. At first, I had brushed it off as nothing and focused on the physical part of it because most of the conflicts we had were always settled by combat. But as I walked home that evening, I felt something else stir within me. If I was already facing these internal conflicts before even taking over the leadership of the pack, I didn’t want to find out how difficult it would be to lead the others. “I have my work cut out for me,” I muttered with a sigh, then stopped in my tracks. I was standing in the middle of the school’s empty hallway. I wasn’t sure how I had gotten here, but the last thing I remembered

