Ten

Aiden's POV

The bond between mates is the best thing any other wolf can ask for. It completes us, filling us with unthinkable happiness. And that's happening to me now.

I can feel it.

Every bit of me can't ask for more when I'm around Ashira. I'm an Alpha yet I can only control to be away from her for hours. Far from what I expected.

I denied to claim her. I want to know her first, to see for myself if she has an ounce of greed for power.

Just like how I see my mother.

I grew up with her words, 'to be the best'. She came from the top wolf pack of the North and she expects nothing but best from me and my father.

When Raekon takes over her previous pack from her brother, Uncle Zeuracious, I saw how bewildered and uneasy she become. For her, only our bloodline can be the best. And it should stay that way.

When her brother was thrown off his title as Alpha, she did not like it. I witnessed her thirst to be the first. To be on top. To give the crown back to her own blood. Her hunger