Lorien POV

“What did I miss?” I asked, breathless, as Auren marched straight past his siblings and into the pack house. I wasn’t complaining being wrapped around him was the last thing I’d object to but I hadn’t expected to learn that he’d thrown his own best friends into the dungeon. No matter how much I despised them, it was still shocking.

“I protect what’s mine,” he said simply, carrying me up the stairs without a single hint of struggle, like my weight didn’t even ...