LUCIAN
Being at this event was a means to an end. I sought one thing: a distraction. After the conversation I had with Kade, I still couldn’t get her off my mind.
It was mental torture—every time I closed my eyes, I had flashes from the moments we’d lean against her locker and make her squirm, to the day the bond was activated and the rejection played on a loop.
It felt like someone had flipped a switch in my head and disconnected the means to turn it off. Since our last encounter, my waking thoughts were filled with Ella.
I slept and couldn’t think about anything but Miss Harper punching the air under the guise of training.
The party and tournament were a gathering of wolves from all the other packs. It was the only time we could be in one place and not feel agitated toward one anoth
