THIRTEEN

“First, you tried poisoning me and now, you deal me another betrayal?” The Alpha Prince rummaged through a dresser with his broad back to me.

While my wolf howled in happiness at our proximity, the man in me shivered in terror, knowing that this was bad – terrible for me.

I had stopped denying we were mates. I couldn’t deny it for much longer, not with the way my wolf kept yapping at his proximity and the fact that I still had my head on my shoulders. I knew without a doubt that if we weren’t mated, Prince Valens would have severed my head from my shoulders the minute he knew I’d tried to poison him.

“To have your lips on another?” His words sounded cool. Too cool. Dangerously cool. It made me fear he turned his back to get out a weapon to destroy me or something equally as cruel but when he turned, he hadn’t gotten out anything.

“You wound me.” His words sounded sincere. Sincere and angry. Seriously angry.

“I’m sorry, Alpha.” I bowed my head to show the depth of my repentance even if