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And while it makes me sad that he’ll never find someone he can actually love like that, I vow to spend the rest of our lives making him laugh. That has to count for something.
The truth is, no one can seem to figure out what I am. On the one hand, my wolf is small, and she definitely wants to submit to alpha wolves. But on the other hand, my human is ruthless and wild,
Also, her eyes are glowing. An outward sign of moon-fated mates meeting for the first time.
“Adrienne,” I say, my voice a low growl. Her name is like velvet on my lips. “It means dark queen where I’m from.”
hold his gaze. Until he drops his eyes. Something snaps inside of me. Everything I’ve ever known has been a lie. Alphas never drop their gaze unless they’re challenged by another alpha. So why the hell is he dropping his eyes on me now?
Sometimes you have to reject injustices that were done to you.
“Your name. Here, Adrienne is a royal name, and it means dark queen. In our old language, it was the word for midnight.”
Phoenix tells me she’s small but feisty,”
You’re not fully omega. You have an alpha streak—your human likes to fight back, while your wolf wants nothing more than to submit.
Because despite the rejection I so gravely uttered a few weeks ago, she is my mate whether I accept the bond or not.
I realize then that we’re doing some sort of alpha showdown—both of us taking control, losing control, and trying to regain that control.
She picked me. Her wolf picked me. She would never admit it outside of her heat, but I sensed it earlier. The admiration, the awe, coming from her wolf. The desire to obey, mixed with the urge to test me. She made a fucking nest out of my things. She disobeyed me in order to get caught. She’s a bratty little thing, that’s for sure. But she is mine. Get. To. Her.
I was at the height of my darkness, and he brought me into the light. I was broken and in pain, and he pieced me together, healing me.
“I made a mistake rejecting you. I know that now. I made another mistake last night by leaving, but I didn’t know what to do,” he confesses. “I feared the connection, the bond. I left because it was too perfect, and I knew you deserved better.”
But it’s different here—she has power here, and she’s an equal. She is free to be herself, to let her wolf run wild with no boundaries or borders.
Everyone knows the omega worships his or her alpha… but no one understands that the alpha worships their omega, too.
she can see both the reality and the fairytale in this story.”
About my wolf. She doesn’t submit to everyone. Just the people she deems worthy.
By bringing me back here, he was bringing home a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
