Victoria's POV
"Let’s make things clear—" Lucian’s voice slammed into the air like a blade.
I flinched.
"—you are absolutely not allowed to go five feet away from my f*****g presence."
He came out of nowhere—one second I was sitting there trying to collect the scattered shreds of my sanity, and the next, he was pacing in front of me like a caged soldier right before a war he didn’t want to fight.
I blinked up at him, still half-sprawled on the ground. "Excuse me?"
"I’m not asking, Viktor." He jabbed a finger toward the treeline, his coat flaring with the motion. "You don’t get to vanish into goddamn werewolf territory and almost get slaughtered like some—some—"
"Like some human?" I offered, eyebrows raised.
He stopped dead in his tracks. His jaw clenched so hard I could practicall
