Chapter 27
Every muscle in Lucien’s body was flexed tight and not by his choosing. The wolf had bitten him, nearly ripped his throat out, but the reaction he was having now was far worse than the wound on his neck. He tried fighting the sensation with magic, but the pain radiating up and down his body would not be ignored.
Charlie reappeared just then with Rick after leaving only minutes ago. Charlie was saying something first to Eve and the others, and then to him. Lucien tried to tell him that he couldn’t hear him over the loud ringing in his ears, but every time he opened his mouth to speak, blood filled the space, making him choke.
Whatever was going on was bad. People were fleeing to the door, screaming and crying. Lucien guessed by the way the building had shook that a bomb had ex
