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I send another question through the link I know we share.

“Answer me,”I growl into her head.

With a hard shove, I’m pushed out of her mind. The connection cuts like she slammed the door in my face. No one has ever done that to me. I don’t even know how she did it.

“I’ll fix this,” she says when I tune back in to her and Chayton’s conversation. Without another word, she rushes past me and down the stairs. I expect her to go into her cabin, but when she bypasses her home and heads for the trees, I panic.

“Where are you going?” I call out to her back.

Once again, she ignores me.

“Follow my mate,”my wolf growls.

“She’s not your fucking mate,” I reply out loud instead of in my head like I thought I did.

Chayton’s chuckle has me turning back to him. “I remember that disagreement with my wolf over Elizabeth.”

Shaking my head, I respond, “This is different. Luna was your true mate. Your wolf was telling you the truth.”

“And so is yours.” He shrugs. “You can’t break the bond.”

“The hell you say,” I say, squinting back at him. “You know this can’t stay.”

“Honestly, when I came over here, I came to demand you break the bond. I didn’t want this in my pack. It was hard enough to get the pack to accept Michaela and Marley. This would push them right back over the edge. It would also make them doubt my Beta and if they can’t trust my Beta, he can’t be my Beta.”

I knew all of this. It’s not against the law for different beings to mate. Obviously, since Chayton is mated to a human. However, of all the combinations, it is most frowned upon for avampire and a wolf to mate. That’s a pairing that won’t go over as well.

“But now,” he says, looking at my chest. “Those markings change everything.”

“What am I supposed to do here? I don’t know what happened last night. It was like I was under a spell. She tricked me.”

He shakes his head. “You and I both know that even if she tricked you into that mating bond, the goddess wouldn’t have blessed it if it wasn’t meant to be. Kamyra is the perfect example of that.”

“This is bullshit, Chayton.”

He tosses up his hands and grins. “No, this is marriage.”

I run a hand down my face and realize it was a bad idea. Her scent is so strong on my beard. I then remember my face being buried between her legs. The taste of her essence was like the sweetest flavor I’ve ever had. Once again, arousal sets my blood ablaze and then guilt simmers it down.

“You will present your markings to the pack today. I can feel all of them buzzing with questions and doubts. In three days, you will have an official beta mating ceremony with the vampire.”

I growl at the thought of marrying that leech.

“Not leech,”my wolf snarls.“Mine.”

“And then,” Chayton goes on to say. “You will figure out why the goddess blessed your union. There has to be a reason.”

Chayton leaves me standing on my front porch with a lot running through my head. He’s right. The goddess doesn’t bestow her blessings on just any union. There has to be a reason she found favor in this one. Only way to figure it out is to stay in this godforsaken bond.

There is one bonus coming out of this connection. I have access to the vampire’s inner thoughts. Now there is a new goal. I needed to find out what the hell she has buried behind that wall.

chapter Twenty-four

Marriage

Michaela

Disgust and remorse. That’s what hit me as soon as I woke this morning. Not exactly the feelings a girl wants from the guy she spent an entire night fucking.