Alaric
I spent the night with my only contracted Luna.
The thought lingered heavily in my mind as the cold water poured over my shoulders.
I stood beneath the shower, unmoving, letting the stream run down my face and chest as if it could wash away the memory of the night before. My hands pressed against the tiled wall, fingers curling slowly as annoyance simmered beneath my skin.
What unsettled me the most was not what had happened.
It was the fact that I had lost control.
Control was something I had spent my entire life mastering. Every decision I made, every alliance I built, every move I took for the pack—it was all calculated. I don't want to lose control—especially not to myself and the people around me.
I could remember when I was a child, my father had lost th
