The Lycan King's Defiant Mate
But Derek was among the many who did not have a mate, and couldn’t know what he didn’t know.
Another effect of having a mate was curbing the bloodlust that the Curse had caused to surge in Lycans. If a mate was necessary to tame that violent urge that gripped my wolf, then I would have taken anyone– even a werewolf pup.
I peered sidelong at Iris, at how her head lolled and exposed the thin curve of her neck. The way she had taken to letting her mouth run lately, it would seem she too had forgotten the extent of my mercy. My hand circled over the shape of it– Phantom howled at the darkness of my next thought, that it would take so little pressure to end her.