Luca's POV

I made my way deeper into the woody expanse. Away from everyone. Away from everything too I hoped.

It was too much to take. The emotional stress, the psychological strain. Everything!

I hadn't even fully grieved my father's death. He was all I had had left. And Barlas had snuffed life out of him.

My throat tightened.

My wolf was a shadow of its former self. Yes, Zak obeyed when I called him up to fight, but he did it with a certain fear. I noticed it just when the warriors had ...