Chapter 34 Lucien's Pov

• The first time I saw Esmeralda, she had been sitting on the cold stone steps outside the pack house, her arms wrapped around her knees, her body trembling as though the weight of the world rested on her fragile shoulders.
• Her hair was matted with dirt, her dress torn, and there was a bruise darkening along her cheekbone and the fair skin along her arms and wrists.
• Sheldon, that animal! He had manhandled her so roughly. Is he that starved?