CULLEN I couldn’t tell where Maximus began and where I ended. The confinement and knowing my mate and children were in harm’s way was enough to make my sanity slip away. My mind was a haze of rage and helplessness, and it felt like my body was on autopilot. I couldn’t control the growls or the snapping at people, it just… was. I spun deeper and deeper as everything unfolded in front of us. Fifi trying to use brute strength to break the pole. Remi being wrenched around by her hair. Tyr breaking Cerys’s arm. The looks and whispers for days on end. The taunts and treachery. Round and round. Everything repeated itself, becoming this overwhelming pressure inside me. Tyr was going to die. It was the only intelligible thought in my mind. The only thing every particle of my body agreed upon

