~Aiden I sat on the cold floor, my back pressed against the wall, trying to steady myself as the room spun endlessly around me. The world tilted in slow, nauseating circles, my head throbbing in rhythm with my pulse. I sucked in a breath, then another, forcing my lungs to work properly even as my body trembled. I had already sensed it coming. Lucian’s rage wasn’t subtle. It never was. Even before I heard the chaos outside the door, before the snarls and the sickening sounds of bodies hitting walls, I could already feel his rage in the air…thick, electric, suffocating. The two wolves who had been foolish enough to find Nadia’s scent tempting. The door didn’t stand a chance. Lucian tore it open with such terrifying ease that it barely felt like it had ever been locked. The wood cracked

