Dane
Like a maze the woods stretched with shadows and moonlight, with cold wind that bit and stung as I made my way through the trees, still feeling the thrum of my pulse at Thomas's oily excuse for a midnight run. I'd let him go, for now, but my thoughts had shifted the moment I felt the guard's mind-link: Lusia's near the woods, Alpha. Alone. I fled toward the woods, the stone walls of the castle blurring behind me, propelled by a nameless fear. She had been missing from the very room where I had left her so that I could seem to be sleeping peacefully; a thought that carved through me like an arrow was the fear of what could have happened to her.
And here she stood. I motioned for my guards to fade back, leaving only the two of us behind in the clearing, where she'd been basking in the
