KIERAN’S POV As soon as Sera and Lucian left the theater, my wolf instincts had been clawing at me, an unrelenting, restless pull in my chest that I couldn’t ignore. At first, I fought against it. I’d just had one altercation with Sera, and I knew she’d be livid if I gave in to the need to follow her and make sure she was okay when she was still on her stupid f*****g date with Lucian. But Ashar was very rarely agitated, and his emotions saturated through mine to the point that I could barely think past the frenzy. Finally, I reached out to the security team that was always watching Sera—and they told me they’d lost her. She’d gone into Aurum, there’d been a rogue attack, and she’d never come out. My blood ran cold even as a surge of heat blasted through me. I let Ashar

