"I did it to protect you. I was afraid you would run away to find your mate. You were always so impulsive and didn't see the consequences of your actions; you were just a girl," Lucian responded in his mind.

"Do you hate me for that? For having sealed your memories of that encounter? For having restrained your wolf so she wouldn't follow the call of the bond?" He stopped, and Ophelia looked into her father's wolf's yellow eyes, which looked at her with attention and concern.

She wanted to be up