Lucious trotted out of the lake, his heart beating frantically. In his arms laid his most precious possession, his mate, and she was unconscious and fucking cold! Heck! Who was he kidding? She was freezing to the touch.

He has never felt this way before. Lucious didn’t even know how to describe the thousands of emotion swirling in his mind right now.

He didn’t know if it was anger? anxiety? Pain or regret? Or was it fear that was clawing at his heart? Tearing ...