Chapter 16

"You allow Blake to mark you and it will, for a couple of weeks at least, keep the Alpha at bay."

I was sure that damn Moon Goddess hated me. I needed Blake, there was no point in even denying that anymore because I would be lying to myself, but now she was just being cruel.

I knew Blake marking me was going to happen, but I wanted to decide when it was going to happen, not have the act forced on me because of something I never wanted in the first place. If my father had just passed the Alpha down to my best friend, Luca, like I had told him to do then this wouldn't be an issue now.

But he had to be stubborn. He wanted it to stay in the family and, when Link refused to take over the position, that meant it fell to me regardless of what I wanted. I didn't complain at the time and I n