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I nervously glanced at Adrian past the bushes and trees that I had tried to hide behind. Lucinda stood in front of me. Broken down, but looking much better now that she had been given some treatment. Everyone had started to return to their homes while a search group was sent to hunt down Leila. Alpha Griffin was in no state to even walk. An ambulance had been brought in to carry him to the pack hospital.

“What’s up?” Lucinda asked impatiently, tiredness covering her face, “I wanna go back and take a fucking nap. What do you want?”

My attention returned to her. I could feel Adrian’s eyes pinned on us.

Folding my arms over my chest, I straightened my back to prepare myself, and then stated, “You heard what Leila said about my wolf, didn’t you?”

Lucinda was silent for a mere second, but then smirked, and leaned back against the bark of a tree. Though it was more because she was perhaps getting tired of standing rather than attitude.

“I heard.”

My worst fear. Though it was not like I was