I Kissed The Supreme Alpha By Mistake
"Don't you dare stand there and tell me about mate bonds when you've never once actually had one. Neither of us did. That's the whole reason we made the promise in the first place."
"Exactly," he said. "And now I don't need to keep it."
The crowd had gone fully silent around us, phones half-raised, the same instinct for spectacle that had brought half of them here tonight now sensing there was more to capture.
"You don't even have a wolf," Xavier continued, quieter now, but somehow crueler for it. "You never shifted, Maya. Not once, not ever. Do you understand what that would have meant, standing beside me as Luna? The other Alphas would have laughed us out of every council meeting."