As though in a trance, I watched as Lyra looked at me with a fierce gaze. Her eyes were like white orbs with blinding light emanating from them, piercing into my soul.

Without paying attention to the murmurs that were beginning to move around the pack members at my sudden behaviour, I stood up in a flash, about to take the first step off my throne when Lief mind-linked me.

He had noticed a change in my demeanour. My mind was slow to process what he said as I was still transfixed at the ...