Lucian´s POV
The silence of the night weighed on me like a slab of stone. I had lain in bed for hours, but sleep refused to come. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw her face. Not the woman I rejected. Not the weak, broken Luna who left my pack.
But the creature that rose before me in that meeting.
Elise.
The image of her implacable calm, her absolute control, her power sweeping through the room and reducing the Alphas to trembling prey… it wouldn’t leave me.
I clenched my jaw.
I couldn’t allow it.
I couldn’t allow myself to doubt.
I got up abruptly, feeling my muscles tense with frustration. I left my room and made my way down the hallway toward the chamber where my allies were gathered. I needed to see them. I needed to reassure them that the situation was under control.
Or at le
