CHAPTER 80:

　　Lucien

　　Sitting in the bleak waiting room that day, to any wolf passing by, they'd think I was the one having an operation done.

　　Caspian was too busy howling with laughter in my head to console me, so I had to resort to flipping through magazines to occupy myself. I tapped my foot on the white ground, trying to distract myself.

　　It had been nearly two years since I had been in the hospital. I remember when I first came here, back when Raleigh had first come to my pack. That was years ago, yet it still felt like yesterday.

　　The hospital hadn't changed much. Luckily, it had managed to stand during the attacks we had been getting these past few days. Dhoom really meant it when he said he wanted the crown. One after another, wolves kept barging into my pack, attacking the first wolves they'd seen. Their violet eyes controlled mercilessly by my father—

　　—Just like I had been.