Chapter 41.

The room was spinning around me and I couldn't get out of my head. His eyes started glowing, a beautiful golden-brown hue with a deceiving calm luring behind them. Trixy stepped back, she was scared and the pressure from the Lycan was driving her into submission without a single word uttered to make her kneel; it was all him, his energy and his wolf simply existing was enough to make us cower. It was why the Lycans ruled for as long as they had, they were different from us, stronger and much more powerful. Darian's lips hovered by my ear and his breath fanned my face when he whispered, “Look around,”  Without turning my head I tried to see what room I was in. The walls were dark, a near charcoal color matching with the red heavy drapes that covered the window. The canopy bed had thick black bed posts with upside-down teardrop-shaped finials decorating the heads of the posts. Around the crown where a curtain would usually hang, instead hung black straps that fell down to the bed, one on