ter

rel

inced, holding my head. After a while, the pain subsided, making it possible

ale room because of the scent, and I wondered whose person's room I was in. Everything came ru

ped and touc

he mark of his

I al

ly survive

e heck

from the bed; my legs were weak, a

feel th

d marked me. He'd stake his claim on me,

ed me, and I lost my balance and fell o

aid to me as he helped me up. He walked to the table nearby and brought out som

I cut him shor

inued pounding the herbs. I blinked my

ill in t

my hands, uncert

e beast? W

e or perhaps loc

form alpha Kaelen about you being awa

ing from yesterday's chase and bite. I'm still weak.

how..." I trailed off unsure of what to say. Everyone knew about how da

e. From the look of things, he was lo

ied to call my wol

been asleep for a week, not a day, and that's why you need to take

, and he nodded his

week, and I can't eve

e I was sold to the beast by my father. I had no home to

with no

times what I had done in my pa

e and drank my blood than forcing me

d be a dead end. I suggest you cooperate and drink

he bitter substance on the go. I squeezed my face, holding back the

eet the Alpha, and I'm Gaius, by the way,

calling me

lly when he said the maids

wretched that I needed to be prepa

~

reated this way; it made me feel wanted. The door flung open, and a man, tall, with dark brown, shoulder-length h

omewhat familiar, like we've met before, but I could tell that I hadn't met thi

n a lot smoother if he was the first pe

aura sucked air o

easily make any man drool, and each step he takes toward me makes

rom this man. He noticed my discom

..are you?" I stuttered, trying

felt my heart stop beating for a while. My eyes

was - why would a perfect, down-to-ea