Chapter 53

Lukas

Once the door to my dad’s office shut, all I wanted to do was sigh in relief and shake off the heebie-jeebies that I had ever since Bianca walked through the dining hall doors at the palace.

Everything about her was grating. Her voice, her personality, her over-the-top sweetness. My wolf was constantly growling at me in my head, baring and gnashing his teeth.

I had questionable control over him. All he wanted to do was shift and run out of the packhouse to go kill a rabbit or a deer and bring it to June’s cottage as an apology and to show her our strength and prove to her we could take care of her.

Her reaction had broken me and had almost ruined everything I had been plotting since the moment Bianca uttered that awful word at the banquet.

Mate.

I had waited so long to hear that word said to me, and now it had been, but not by the female who should have said it.

When Bianca had sidled up to me and called me “Lukie,” all I wanted to do was shove her to the side and pull Jun