FAZER LOGINLucan's POV “Find Clara,” my wolf growled, lashing out inside of me to break free from my control. He seized inside my body, throwing and shoving at my insides. “Find mate now. We need her. We need to protect her.”I crumpled Clara’s note in my hand and cut my claws into the thin paper, fury rushing through my entire being. Teeth lengthening into sharp canines, fingernails extending into deadly claws, my wolf ached for control.If I gave it to him, he’d make senseless fucking choices. He wasn’t in the right mind, but hell, neither was I. Our mate was gone. And I might’ve known the real reason why she left, but I still couldn’t stop thinking about how she left me.After I waited years for her.My heart was breaking, shattering, fucking destroying me.Clara left me, and I wasn’t doing a thing about it. I was just wallowing in my self-pity.Someone knocked on my office door, then pushed it open. Mom grasped on to the handle for dear life as she stepped into the room. Her torso was wrapp
Clara’s POV Thiago stared at me and followed me toward the doctor’s office in the middle of this pack house that was way too large for me to honestly keep it straight. I walked with my shoulders pushed back and my head held high.“Please, don’t do this,” my wolf said to me. “Think about mate.”Truth was that I wasn’t confident that this was the right choice. I knew that being here was the wrong one. I knew that all Thiago wanted was power and domination over the entire world, but… he promised me that Lucan would be taken care of, and he had kept half his promise already.He had the medication ready and sent it to Lucan’s pack.Even before college, Thiago always kept his promises.Good or bad.When we reached the doctor’s office, I stopped at the door, reality setting in for the first time today. This was the plan I had made with Julian, but now that I was trapped in this pack house and had traded my life away, I didn’t want to be here. I didn’t want to give up this part of myself tha
Lucan's POV Forty minutes after I gathered all the people gravely injured from the attack into the pack house, I stood at the door and watched impatiently as the pack doctors healed them. Most of my pack warriors were down for the count, which meant we wouldn’t have a strong pack to find and attack The Council.Even Draven’s pack was injured.Beta Milo thrust open the door behind me, holding Mom in his arms. My eyes widened, and I took my mother from him and placed her on a bed next to other warriors, so she could be healed.When I knew she was settled, I glanced out the door to find Clara. “Where is she? Where’s Clara?” I asked Milo.Beta Milo looked away and refused to make eye contact with me. My stomach turned and twisted, and I balled my hands into fists so tightly that my claws sank right through the skin on my palms.“I tried to stay,” Beta Milo reasoned, head hung down in guilt. “I tried so fucking hard. You can ask your mother. I wanted to shift and run after her, capture he
Clara’s POV With Lucan’s mother in his arms, Beta Milo stopped in the middle of the lawn, about to escape, and turned around to face me. I struggled in Thiago’s grip, desperately trying to get away even though I knew it was useless.From the moment I woke up in the cell, I knew I wouldn’t be able to leave.Especially not this easily.“Go!” I shouted at them, hearing the other warriors running down the steps toward us.If they made it down here, then they would torture Milo and Lucan’s mother. And I couldn’t live with myself to see them hurt or hurting. It was all my fault that they were here. It was my fault that they were captured and in pain.I couldn’t let anyone else be punished for my wrongdoings.Beta Milo placed Lucan’s mother down on the lawn, growling and about to shift. I balled my hands into fists, being dragged backward and farther into the building by Thiago.“Don’t fight!” I growled at him. “Leave! Get her to safety! Now!”For a moment, Beta Milo tried to shift into his
Clara’s POV When I woke up, my head rested in Mrs. Vance’s lap. I blinked my eyes open and stared up at the woman who looked like she had been beaten and tortured for the past day by The Council. I didn’t know how much time had passed, but she looked so bad.All because of me.“Where are we?” I whispered, my voice hoarse and my throat dry.I hesitantly sat up and held a hand to my head, grunting. Milo sat in the corner of a cell with his head against a stone wall and his body stripped of all clothes. His skin was coated in a thin layer of dried blood.“In their prison,” Milo said.Chest tightening, I glanced over at Mrs. Vance, who had tears on her cheeks.“My son has been waiting for you for years,” she said, a tear sliding down her wrinkled face. She gently grasped my hand with her trembling one. “That first day he saw you, he came home with a huge smile on his face. I have never seen him that happy before.”Everything seemed so disoriented. I didn’t know what was happening or wher
Lucan's POV Amid the fire and fight, I picked up Clara’s scent. I killed The Council member in front of me and raced through the woods and warring packs, desperate to find her finally.“Alpha,” Jasmine called from the woods, clutching her waist and stumbling through the trees toward me. Blood gushed from her wound and poured down her chin from her bloody nose. She lifted an arm and pointed behind her. “Clara went that way.”“Get to the hospital,” I said, hurrying past her and toward the direction she had pointed.I sniffed the air and picked her scent back up. My legs moved faster than even I could keep up with, and I transformed into my beast to run even faster because she couldn’t be gone. I wouldn’t fucking allow those bastards to take her.But the faster I moved, the less and less Council members got in my way. They were running back, retreating almost. My wolves waited for my orders, and I found myself stopping at the outskirts of the fire.“They’re clearing out,” one of my warr







