THE ALPHA HE WASN’T ALLOWED TO WANT
Whether the realness of his parents’ choice survived the revelation that they’d been placed in each other’s path by a three-hundred-year-old woman standing three feet away.
I held his hand and let him work through it, because that was all I had to offer, and it was enough.
Then he said, “Show us what to do.”
Caska placed his free hand on one side of the basin and mine on the other. The blue light surged immediately, recognizing the bloodlines, flooding up around our arms, and where it met the violet of the mark it didn’t compete, it joined, the two colors weaving into something neither and both, something with no name yet because nothing alive had ever seen it.