POV: Draco and Lucen (Shared)
Their instinct screams protect. They choose trust.
DRACO
The challenger attacks her and my body is already running the response before the decision is made.
The specific automatic quality of the Alpha wolf protective instinct encountering a direct physical attack on the person the instinct is tuned to protect — the decision happening at the biology level rather than the deliberate level, the body calculating the intercept path, the force required, the specific positioning that produces the optimal outcome.
She asked them not to fight for her.
