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

intensity of

their faces pulverized by Lucas's

Alpha L-Lucas," Blake sobbed, blood pouring from his nose. "We

curled into a protective ball. "The fire... it was just supposed to scare

eye swollen completely shut. "Anything you want, man.

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

before him, pathetic in

his voice was

want me to spare you because we were pack brothers? Did you spare my mate? Did any of you worthless fuckers think about her for one

toward

scrambled after him,

to

their terrified screams, the basement door slammed shut with

emerged upstairs, covered in their blood, Leila rose quickly from the Italian leather sofa where she'd

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began, attempting

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

fear.

turning instead to his pack's longtime pack

been prepared?” His voice was

Leila echoed, staring at him in theatrical disbelief. "What the

about?"

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

I'm very much alive! Have you

the she-wolf before him, Lucas's

had he never noticed how self-absorbed and

he said, each word precise and final, "my fated mate and my Luna is not

color from

nobody? Have you forgotten who she was- some loner wolf who stole what was

have seen this coming. Since Aria's

while shutting himself away, refusing to let

acknowledged as Lucas's inevitable future Luna, could

first, she hadn't taken it seriously, assuming he was

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