Lucien’s pov.

This was the only solution I could come up with. Maybe if she knew how to harness her wolf and shift when the severing happened, she wouldn’t lose herself, at least not all of it.

Turning back to her. “ Go inside, Ivy.”

Her face fell into a frown clearly confused. I looked away immediately, guilt rippling through me, but I had to do this; it was for the good of my pack. Nothing else mattered, especially not the feeling towards her that now settled deep inside me.

I ...