Zoe immediately walked away from him. Her face was red with fury, with anger and with fear. Her visit to him was a complete waste. “Then you should make better plans!” she sneered.  

The man growled again at her baring his fangs to scare her away. But Penny kept moving forward. When she was at an arm’s length, she saw how deeply the arrows had pierced him. Two arrow heads were protruding out of his back. In the front there were some arrows that he had broken the shaft of. He was wearing an iron armor tunic and black breeches. His long shoulder length hair was soaked with sweat and blood. A scar on his right eyebrow added to his overall lethal look. 

Tova immediately became tense with that gesture of hers and Ludwig… he growled. He wanted to slice that arm of Tova. This was the worst he had seen and his wolf was surfacing. 

“That’s good to know,” replied Tova. Yesterday night he was out of the house, performing ceremonies for the households so that in the morning he could be with Penny. “I think you should wait for a day more before your swelling completely subdues before you embark on archery lessons.” 

He knew that he had made a big time mistake with Zoe and she would not come until he had the necklace. The full moon was approaching and his wolf was becoming madder than ever. He had decided never to see Penny again but that only added to his madness. There had been bouts of madness when he would go to the jungle in his wolf form and simply uproot trees or create as much chaos as possible. Instead of focusing on finding more leads, he was getting obsessed with Penny. Gods, how he wanted to slam her! For a month he had avoided her and now he could barely hold himself. He wanted to haul