In the span of a single second, every man in that courtyard was down on the ground, clutching at wounds that looked like they had been done by a wolf, and the whole place filled with nothing but howls of agony. Colin stood right in the middle of the chaos, casually wiping the blood off his face like it was nothing, and only after he had wiped his hands clean did he finally start walking toward me. When he saw that I wasn't moving at all, a flash of hurt crossed his eyes. "I... didn't scare you, did I?" No, he didn't scare me. He absolutely blew me away. I had always known he was strong, but I never realized just how strong. And yet, someone this powerful, for the sake of love, hadn't hesitated to saddle himself with the deadliest weakness of all. If I actually got hurt there, then he

