Damien’s POV
I took a swing at Jake, punching him straight in the mouth. Everyone stilled after, as if so surprised by what I had done that they were frozen in place. But then, Jake looked at me, and in the next instant, he started swinging too.
It was almost a relief to feel the blow into my stomach. Finally, I had an outlet for my rage and my fear.
I grabbed Jake by the shoulders and we started to grapple.
Martin and Lillian were trying to stop us, but I could barely hear them. With how ferociously Jake was fighting back, I didn’t think he was paying them much mind either.
Only when Healer Eve appeared, her voice shrill and authoritative, I heard something other than the rushing of my own blood and the snarling of my own wolf inside of my head.
“If you want to fight, do it outside,
