The crowd parted as Lucien and i made our way, his Alpha aura radiating like waves. The three refugees stood in the middle of the clearing, their exhaustion evident in every line of their bodies, but their eyes flamed with the type of desperate determination born of being bearers of life-and-death news.The largest of the three, the one that bore a branded crescent moon burned into his forehead, stepped forward as soon as he saw Lucien approaching. His eyes, however, went right to me, and his weathered face altered with something that looked horrifyingly like awe."You," he gasped, kneeling in the mud. "You bear the mark. The true mark, not this fake they burned into my flesh."His pack members did the same, dropping to their knees in clear weakness. My pack members around me shared bewildered looks. Their formal submission was something they had never seen."Rise immediately!" Lucien barked, his tone conveying Alpha authority.The refugees slowly stood, but their gazes never wavered
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