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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had prioritized saving

to escape the unexpected intensity of

their faces pulverized by Lucas's rage, barely able to form coherent

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

happen like this," Derek whimpered, curled into a protective

swollen completely shut.

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

before him, pathetic in their

When he finally spoke, his voice was terrifyingly flat-the calm of

hollow and chilling. "You want me to spare you because we were pack brothers? Did you spare my mate? Did any of you worthless fuckers

toward the

scrambled after him, leaving bloody

yourselves to

the basement door

Leila rose quickly from the Italian

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she began, attempting her usual

the extent of the carnage covering him, her face freezing

fear.

completely, turning instead to his

Luna's burial site been prepared?” His voice was raw from

him in theatrical disbelief. "What the

about?"

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

very much alive! Have you

she-wolf before him, Lucas's eyes filled with

never noticed how self-absorbed

fated mate

simple statement drained all color from her perfect

you forgotten who she was- some loner wolf who stole what was rightfully

have seen this coming. Since Aria's death, Lucas had

away, refusing to let authorities take Aria's remains, keeping her with

Lucas's inevitable future Luna, could barely get him to answer

it seriously, assuming

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