DARREN’S POV
I caught her before she hit the floor.
My arms moved before my brain told them to - pure instinct. She folded into my chest and I pulled her against me. The moment I did, every single thing in my body went still.
That had never happened to me before.
I had been in battles. I had stood in rooms full of chaos, noise and danger and kept my head completely clear. I was trained for it, built for it - every Lycan prince was.
Stillness under pressure was the first thing our father had ever taught us. But this was different. This was not the stillness of discipline. This was the stillness of something finding what it had been looking for without knowing it was searching.
My Lycan settled inside me. He’d never gone still for anyone. He growled protectively inside me.
She fit per
