DARIUS'S POV
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This was a nightmare!
A cursed, infuriating nightmare.
I stomped through the forest, my boots sinking into the mud, my wolf snarling inside me.
Lila was gone.
Vanished.
Like smoke slipping through my fingers. And that half-breed, Asher Wolfe, was with her. Mocking me. Stealing what was mine.
Damn it!
My blood burned, my chest tight with rage. I’d torn through that valley, ripped apart every cave, every shadow, and found nothing.
Not a trace of her blue eyes, her omega scent. The Lycan Queen, they called her. My key to power. My destiny.
And I’d lost her.
I kicked a tree, the bark splintering under my boot. Pain shot through my foot, but I didn’t care.
It was nothing compared to the fire in my veins, the hunger for her power. If I could just get my hands on
