INICIAR SESIÓNClara’s POV Fire raged around me, engulfing the trees and Lucan’s people. Screams from the pack echoed through the smoky forest. I pumped my legs as hard as I could and glared into the fire to see if anyone was trapped.The Council was here for me.I should’ve been running far away from here.But I couldn’t get myself to leave while there were innocent people burning in the woods, all because The Council didn’t care who lived and who died in war. They would search the ends of this fucking earth until they captured me again.Still, the promise of horrors and terror forced me to keep moving. I could’ve turned myself in and stopped this entire thing, but they would do worse to me this time compared to what they had done last time.Lucan didn’t know half the shit they put me through, and I refused to ever tell him. If he found out about it, he would hate me for who they had forced me to become, the tests they promised to run, the sterilization.All for what? I didn’t know.“Please, someo
Lucan's POV One Alpha.I told Clara that I tried hard to lead like himwith authority and respectbut I lied.I stared down at Julian lying on my desk, his body covered in deep claw marks and his clothes soaked in blood. With drenched hands, I picked up his carcass and handed it to Draven, who snatched him from me and scrunched up his nose.“Get him out of my office before someone spots him here,” I said.“You owe me,” he said, then glanced out the door crack and sprinted down the hallway.After I slammed my office door, I ran a blood-covered hand through my hair and swept all the ruined exams and papers off my desk and into a trash bag, cleaning my school office as well as I could before someone saw.I was no One Alpha. I was an alpha who would do anything to protect his mate.Even kill.Once everything was clean, I ran my hands through my hair and paced back and forth in my office, glancing out the window to see Draven disappear into the forest. My stomach was in knots, and I couldn’
Clara’s POV Glancing among the warriors training on a cleared field in the forest, I looked for Lucan. I hadn’t seen him since this morning when the chancellor pulled him away to talk. From the moment I saw the chancellor standing at the door, I knew something wasn’t right.And now that Lucan hadn’t even tried to contact me since class, I was worried.What if something had happened to him? What if the chancellor found out about Professor Vance’s and my little sexcapades in the classroom, in his office, and even in his bed? What if he had spent all day clearing his office because the chancellor fired him?My stomach twisted and turned.But then Lucan would’ve come back to his pack, wouldn’t he? He wasn’t here.“We’re going to start with a run around the property,” Milo said, gaze focused on me. Though he hadn’t said merely a couple words to me after Lucan marked me, Milo actually gave me a warm-ish smileif I could even call it thatand nodded to the woods. “Try to keep up, pup.”The en
Lucan's POV Thank the Goddess. Julian didn’t show for my class today. I waited for the entire hour for him to waltz in and interrupt me, glare at me from across the classroom like he knew all my secrets, and spill the wolf secret to the humans around us. I didn’t expect anything less from a Council member. Everyone knew that once a human found out about wolveseven if he or she was mated to oneThe Council required us to kill them before they shifted or told someone else. And, fuck, if the entire class found out, that would be a lot of blood on my pack’s hands. We would need to take care of them somehow because one of them would be bound to spill our secrets to the entire world. Clara was different though. She always had been. Even my pack members recognized it. After I dismissed class, Clara stayed behind while Jasmine and Levi lingered by the door. I wasn’t taking any more chances, not with Julian walking around this campus with that shit-eating grin on his face and those
Clara’s POV “Hey, girl,” Jasmine said, plopping down beside Levi and me in lecture the next morning. She tossed her silky brown hair over her shoulder and wiggled her brows at me. “I heard what happened last night.”My cheeks flushed, and I rubbed my sweaty palms together. “You did?”“Of course!” Jasmine smacked my shoulder. “What do you think this is? Everyone in the entire pack knows that you marked Alpha Vance last night. When an alpha marks someone and vice versa, everyone in the entire pack can feel it.”I scrunched my nose. “You could feel it?”“Yeah, like sexually,” Levi said, wiggling his eyebrows at me.Jasmine rolled her eyes. “No. There’s like a different aura that falls over the land.”“Levi, you really need to find yourself someone.” I shook my head. “If Lucan heard you”“He’d probably rip my balls off.”Leaning closer to me, Jasmine grabbed my hand. “You know what this means though?! Soon, you’ll be having pups and having a cute little alpha family to raise in our pack.
Lucan's POV I shivered.Pleasure rushed through every part of my body from my neck, where Clara’s canines were lodged; to my parted lips, breathing in her lovely scent; to my hands that were now grasping on to her hips so tightly that I thought I would break her.“Clara,” I whispered, her name rolling off my tongue.It wasn’t like a feeling that I ever experienced before. It was so much better than the stories told down from generation to generation about how a mate’s teeth would feel sinking into my neck and how the woman who loved me finally became a part of my being too.With her canines still buried deep inside me, Clara let out a long sigh and wrapped her arms around my waist to pull me closer. She paused for a moment, as if she didn’t want to pull away, then slowly removed her canines from my throat, pulling me tighter.“I love you,” she whispered against the column of my neck. “I love you, Lucan.”Another shiver ran up and down my spine. There was a time in my life that I neve







