LUCIAN
‘What?” Leah’s question echo in my head. She’s still watching me, waiting.
Fuck, I should say it right now. Just rip it out of my chest and hand it to her.
You’re the only hybrid to ever exist. Everything that happened with your old pack, the arranged marriage, was a set-up to get you here.
But the words stick, lodged in my throat like barbed wire.
“Say it,” Fenrir growls in the back of my mind. “She deserves to know.”
“I know,” I snap at him.
“Then why are you staring at her like an i***t?" He snaps back.
Because I’m not ready. The second I tell her, there’s no undoing it. The truth will hit her like a blade in the ribs, and she’ll see me as exactly what I am, a selfish bastard who played the long game to get what he wanted. And right now, I can’t stand the thought of h
