“You should not make a mockery of yourself, Sophia Harvey. We were never a thing,” Lucian said quietly, his golden eyes locked on mine, as my head came to a halt. His voice was calm, but it cut like a blade.I held his stare. “But you heard Marina,” I answered, surprised at the strength in my own voice. “She said it before the pack. You cannot pretend you did not hear.”Something flickered in his eyes, quick as lightning. He raised a hand, a warning more than a gesture. The pack shifted and murmured, the sound was like a restless wind through stone halls.“I will not go against the Raven’s pack,” he said, each word slow and deliberate. “Completing the bond will be done in the Alpha’s chambers, with the…” His gaze dropped to my hands. His jaw tightened as though the next words scraped his throat. “My… chosen mate.”The way he forced the phrase sent a sharp ache through my chest. My teeth pressed together hard, but I smiled anyway, first at him, then at the watching pack.The elder lift
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