Chapter 10

A crowd had gradually formed around them.

Tyler, Blake, Derek, and Josh stood nearby, faces etched with horror and genuine remorse. Leila

hovered at the edge, her eyes flickering with jealousy and bitter resentment.

Countless others watched with sorrowful gazes.

Lucas acknowledged none of them.

A single devastating fire had transformed the whole territory overnight.

Within forty-eight hours, every pack connected to the "prank" found themselves under brutal attack from the Thornwood pack. Their pack area has sharply declined, their reputations destroyed, their

futures obliterated.

Those Lucas's friends-now locked in the soundproofed basement of his pack's estate, subjected to his unrelenting rage.

Lucas had become something feral, something bloodlust, delivering blow after merciless blow to the men cowering on the concrete floor.

"WHY THE FUCK WERE THERE GAS CANS IN THAT CABIN?" he roared, his knuckles split and bleeding, voice barely recognizable. "ANSWER ME!"

"Why did your pussy-ass guards run without her?" Another devastating punch landed on Tyler's already disfigured face.

"WHY DIDN'T YOU GET HER OUT? WHY IS SHE DEAD WHILE YOU WORTHLESS PIECES OF SHIT ARE STILL BREATHING?"

Each question punctuated with violence, as if hurting them might somehow lessen his own guilt-as if avenging Aria could absolve him of being the one who ultimately led her to her death.

According to their original "hilarious prank," Aria was never supposed to be in actual danger.

As a precaution, they had stationed pack guards inside to protect her. If the fire got out of control, those guards were supposed to rescue her immediately.

But somehow, the abandoned cabin had been rigged with gasoline containers they hadn't put there.

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those werewolves had

their panic to escape the unexpected intensity of the blaze, they had forgotten

barely recognizable, their faces pulverized by Lucas's rage, barely able to form coherent words through swollen lips and

blood pouring from his nose. "We fucked up... we know we

into a

eye swollen completely shut. "Anything you

offer whatever you want," Josh begged, dragging himself across the floor. "Please, please... we've

men knelt before him, pathetic in their terror, foreheads pressed to the concrete in

them seemed beyond reason, beyond humanity. When he finally spoke, his voice was terrifyingly

you because we were pack brothers? Did you spare my mate?

moved toward

after him, leaving bloody handprints on

explain yourselves to Aria in

the basement door slammed

their blood, Leila rose quickly from

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began, attempting

died when she saw the extent of the carnage covering him, her face

fear.

her completely, turning instead to his pack's

site been prepared?” His voice

in theatrical disbelief. "What the actual fuck are

about?"

nails digging into his arm, her eyes wide. "I'm your future

very much alive! Have you completely

him, Lucas's eyes filled with

never noticed how self-absorbed

"my fated mate and my Luna is not you.

statement drained all color from her perfect

Have you forgotten who she was- some loner wolf who stole what was rightfully mine? Don't tell me you actually fell for that

Since Aria's death, Lucas had

everyone involved in harming her, while shutting himself away, refusing to let authorities take Aria's remains, keeping her with him day

inevitable future Luna, could barely get him to answer her

it seriously, assuming he was

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