Lucian's POV
I felt her weight in my arms as I carried her back to the hotel—she was lighter than I remembered.
The last forty-eight hours had been hell on earth, but somehow finding Allison in the middle of this disaster felt like some cruel cosmic joke.
Of all the places she could have been, she'd come here—straight into danger—for me.
Two days ago,I was inspecting our territory borders when the ground started to shake.
And the next, the world is collapsing around us. Trees snapped like twigs.
The earth split open not twenty feet from where I stood. The roar was deafening—like being inside a monster's throat as it screamed.
When the shaking stopped, I was pinned under a fallen tree. Blood trickled into my eyes, but all I could think about was Allison.
Her face f
