Julian’s POV
Theo was gone for a long time. It made me wonder where the messenger was. Was he out of the pack territory like the healer? My pack members were starting to go missing and I was not finding it funny anymore. Someone needed to be held responsible. Asher was the big fish who commissioned the smaller fish. The tree of violence needed to be cut from the root, that I knew, but cutting off its branches would do us some good. It would prevent the spreading of the violence further. I was ready to take the risk seeing as my pack members were going to be hurt the most. I had Ophelia, whom Asher wanted back, not because he loved her, but because he wanted someone he could control.
I was not going to allow him take her no matter what, even if it meant dying while protecting her. She was
