**Ethan’s POV

“You need to take it easy, Alpha,” Richard told me as I gazed out at the ocean, looking back at the island we were sailing away from.

“I’m fine,” I grunted at him. The injuries I’d sustained during the fight with Soren were nothing compared to how I felt on the inside.

That b*stard. He had come up with this plan. He had somehow known what I would do and used it to his advantage. I slowly shook my head, wondering how he got to be so… ...