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But I’d been at a point in h I was running around in a circle, taking four left turns and always ending up at the same spot

If all else failed and this trip turned out to be the worst idea ever, at least I’d have experienced a little more in life

And that couldn’t be so wrong, right?

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Ren

My beast roa creature that could claw a vehicle in half, take down any living thing that stood in its way, and gave me immense power

I was a Lycan, one of the many supernatural creatures that inhabited the earth, my very existence known only to some It was better—easier—to stay hidden, to not let humans knohat I was The weaker species feared too erous not only to the they didn’t understand

I stalked the thick Carpathian Montane Conifer Forest, the wilderness my home more than the castle in which I resided in my human form

I built the castle centuries ago when I branched off fro search forbut a erous That’s what villagers would say when they heard my name

Ren Lupineov

It was safer to let theance afforded me an air of authority and aristocracy Let them believe my wealth was passed down from ancestors For if they ever found out I was a three-hundred-year-old Lycan shifter—able to shift into a horse-sized wolf—they’d hunt me doith torches and axes

They wouldn’t succeed, of course I could level anyone and anything that threatened me or mine

Mine

That lone wordI had forfor ainst all odds that my Lycan instincts would lead my Linked Mate—the one female as born to be mine—to me

I didn’t know her name Didn’t knohat she looked like, sounded like, or if she was even on this continent But I searched these woods every night, went fro my Lycan Instinct would somehow scent my mate, that I’d smell her and feel that Link between a Lycan and his mate, that supernatural connection that only a shifter had with his feether forever