Chapter Seventeen

Lucian's POV

With feet's barely touching the forest ground, Adal held on tightly to our pale, fragile, bleeding mate whose eyes remained closed with a body temperature that could set a house on fire. The heat bore through my clothes and I could only imagine the amount of pain she's going through at the moment. A deep pang of conscience washed over me immediately- this could have been averted if I wasn't a blockhead.

She's burning with the highest fever I ever witnessed. The highest temperature I saw was during the heat of a recently mated female wolf whose mate wasn't around to soothe the pain of his beloved, but this, it's is nothing compared to anything I ever seen. My hands had turned red by the time we reached the deepest part of the forest but Adal won't let go of her . I tried talking him into giving back control but he wouldn't listing. He became feral and snapped at me when I asked the third time.

He suddenly came to a standstill in the middle of nowhere, sniffing the air an