Chapter 12 Rising From The Dark

• Magnus’s pov.
• All my life I have known pain. You are not considered to be an alpha if you are a weakling. The Lycan gene is poison to those who cannot wield its power, it corrupts you, weakens you more because you need strength to fight, and if you have no strength for the fight you are beaten. Pain has been my friend for a long time for I am an ancient, I am feral, I am one with nature.
• The pain that seared through my entire body was not something I was familiar with though. Tears threatened to escape my eyes as Selene pressed down on the wound with a piece of her cloth and a mixture of herbs.