Chapter 39 - Manuel

I stand looking at Lola, worried by what she has just said to me. It sounds like their pack has truly messed with her head. I thought my issues were over when she had let me mark her, but it seems I am going to have to help her reprogramme her way of thinking.

I do not want her thinking she has to answer to me. I do not like that idea at all. My Mami never answered to my Dad, haha I’d like to have seen him make her try! They were equals, and that is how a couple should be, isn’t it? I hope the way I explained the relationship between Dan and Indie and Lilah and Knox will have helped Lola see we can be different to what she was expecting. We can be happy, we can be equal and work well.

She should never feel she has to run around after me, bow down to me and try to please me. The thought of that actually hurts me.

“What do you say, Carino? You think we can try?” I ask.

“I don’t know if I am honest, Guapo. I need you to realise we were brought up as girls in pack to be tra