LUCIAN
I thought I could handle it.
I had charged out of the house the second I felt my bond with Katherine snap in my soul: without even giving my brain time to process the horror, I headed straight for the Lone Moon border at a breakneck pace. I ignored everything. I ignored my responsibilities as Alpha, I ignored the tearing physical agony that the brutal rupture of the bond inflicted on every fiber of my body, and I ignored the desperate radio demands from my high-ranking warriors asking me what the f**k I was doing.
The harder I ran, the more my lungs burned as I tried to catch her scent, and the more a single, unshakeable conviction solidified in my chest: I had to bring her home. And I would make it happen.
Kat was Kat, after all. I knew she loved me—or at least, that she had lo
