CHAPTER 74:

　　Raleigh:

　　Lucien was going to be very mad at me.

　　No, scratch that. He wouldn't be mad.

　　He would be furious.

　　And Lucien was not the type of person to be around when he got furious.

　　It was midday, probably closer to the evening than it would be to the afternoon. Lucien had been busy the whole day, just as he had been when Darius and David first attacked the pack. Warriors were on edge, pups were hardly seen outside, and women were often murmuring amongst themselves, giving the borders a weary look. Cindy told me to pay no heed to their gossiping, though I would be lying if I said I hadn't heard them gossip about me.

　　It was the usual teenage girl gossip; the marks, the nights alone. Occasionally, teenage girls joined them, laughing and giggling about boys and mating. I often wanted to join them but ended up shying out. They didn't want a weird girl butting into their conversations anyway.