CHAPTER 173

Lucas' POV

I went back to my room, trying so hard to get my emotions under control. I could not scent any male wolf on her, meaning that she had not been marked. I had lost my wolfness to my witchblood and powers.

We were castrated because of our powers, my mother escaped and left me with my father. Returning to the Luna Crest camp was one of the things my mother dreamed of. To regain the Hawthorne family name. But I couldn't care less.

All I wanted now more than ever was to have Lily and her kids as mine. Now that the witchblood has come to be generally acceptable, my mother and I remain the most powerful in all of Mistwood Creek, after Lord Darkwood.

After a quick shower, I dressed and headed back outside, only to be intercepted by my mother. “Lucas, I need you to take the kids out again today,” she said, her tone leaving no room for argument.

“Mother, why do you keep insisting on this? They don’t learn anything from me,” I protested, trying to keep the irritation out of my voice.