~Alora~

The walk back to my room felt like a dream—or maybe a nightmare. I couldn't quite process what I'd just witnessed in that hall. Lucian, my mate, the man who'd held me so tenderly just last night, had attacked an elder in front of the entire pack.

The image of Elder Rose's body crumpling to the ground, blood trickling from her mouth, kept replaying in my mind like a horror I couldn't escape.

But underneath the shock and fear, there was something else. Something I didn't want to ...