WESLEY POV “Let me come with you this time,” Haven said, following me as I walked out of my parents’ apartment, Nolan and Sebastian right behind her. I stopped in my tracks at her words. “What? No.” I shook my head and turned to her. “Haven—” “I want to go with you,” she insisted, interrupting me. “No, Haven,” I said, gripping her shoulders. “It — it will be violent and bloody and gruesome. I have to be someone you won’t recognize. All three of us do. I don’t want you to see me — to see us — like that.” Even though I had given my word to Lennox that I wouldn’t touch him, I still had to put on that mask. I had to be the brutal, cruel alpha. The vicious lycan. I didn’t know what Sebastian had up his sleeve for Lennox, but I knew it would be something bloody and bordering on sadistic. I

