MAYA'S POV My body nearly fell from the first wave, as though the priestess's words had made it worse.“I can't be in heat, I'm already marked!” I exclaimed, desperate for answers, for relief.“Has it been long you were marked?” A dark-skinned Luna with dimples and a gap tooth asked.I nodded once, ashamed of what it meant.“Then nature is just doing its job. Pushing you both together. You should be happy.”“No no no, you guys don't understand!” I groaned, jumping deeper into the water.“It's too late to wash it off,” another lady, not a Luna this time yelled as I furiously washed and scrubbed my neck and shoulder, “it has done its work.”“Why is she even against it? A heat period is the most blissful thing! Most of us don't even get it because the second we meet our mates, there's no courting, straight in and we're pregnant.”“He's not courting me Dera, he doesn't want me!” I screamed in anguish, thoughts of what might happen rolling in my gut.If there's anything Alpha Caden hates,
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