Pain. The grip on Lexi’s arm intensified the Luna's crushing hold unrelenting through Lexi’s pleas. Lexi had met a hateful dangerous monster before. She had stared him down, tried to plea or bargain but nothing worked. A bewildered Lexi recognised the same look of pleasure in her pain in the Luna’s eyes. She knew how her monster had been created, what had happened to the Luna to become the same? There was so much abhorrence in Natalie's eyes. Was this how mates should feel? She did hate Natalie for being loved by her soulmate but she felt sorry for Natalie, this was neither their fault. This was fate. Two women who loved the same man, one by choice and one by magic, it struck Lexi, she had never had a choice in her what she wanted. Never. The Luna’s fist connected the side of Lexi’s ribca