Orien He didn’t like that Luci had cut off all communications with not just himself, but her mother as well. He’d tried to mind-link to her, using that newly established ability. It was good to have that, he’d always had to call her or text her or send someone off to go and get her. He could now talk to her at will. But now when he tried she’d disconnected it from her end, and as harshly as she could do so. He’d felt the pain of it being severed inside his own mind; like a serrated knife slicing through his mind. He’d heard Rali snarl in pain himself, at the feeling of it. Orien had to remind himself at that moment, that Luci was a Pure-blooded Alpha of an unknown lineage to him. She was going to be stronger than him, now that she was a fully realized she-wolf, something he’d not had t