LUKAN The sound of the engine faded as I stepped out of the car. After the meeting with Beta Ronan, I figured that going back home was better than staying around. As I entered the private elevator avoiding the stairs , my thoughts were already racing back to the meeting with Beta Ronan. The proposal was absurd. Marriage? To one of his daughters? He thought he could bind me to his weak Pack with a pretty face and a name on paper. He didn't know me at all. Rules and foolish proposals weren't for me. The elevator opened directly into my penthouse. The silence was deafening. Beautiful expensive room stretched out before me and the silence. It was better, at least , I tried not to think of Merida often. But there was something else. She was waiting for me. I heard her before I

