GUNTER POV
The second her blood hit my tongue, my mind f*****g exploded.
Mine.
She was mine.
It wasn’t a thought. It was a goddamn command running through every nerve I had.
The bond didn’t just snap into place — it burned through me, molten and savage, linking her heartbeat to mine. Cassius howled so loud inside my skull I almost dropped to my knees. He wanted her now. Wanted to finish the mark, take her, claim her, make the whole damn world smell her on me.
But I couldn’t.
Not yet.
There was still one thing I needed to take care of.
Alpha Ashton.
The smug little bastard who’d laughed when his gamma rejected my mate.
Who thought being “Alpha” gave him the right to look down on her.
Who’d called her a ‘b***h’ when she’d ripped Tyler’s fangs out.
My mate was balancing the scal
