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I was silent for a moment. “You told me she was distracted by the other male.”
“She was,” Jenny said.
“You told me that if I got rid of him, she’d find her way to me,” I said.
“She will. But he’s not dead,” Jenny said. “Can you do anything right?”
“I gave him enough toxin to kill a fucking giant. How is he not dead?” I didn’t even ask how she knew. That was the thing with Jenny, sometimes she knew shit.
“You don’t have to retain this bond,” Jenny said. “Lola wants it broken. She’d agree.”
“I know. She tried to break it when I found her,” I admitted.
“But you won’t,” Jenny said.
“She must bow to me. I have to break her,” I said with a growl.
“Why?” Jenny asked.
“You know why,” I said.
“Because of her mark?” Jenny asked.
If word got out that she had the mark of the alpha, and she turned me down, I would lose my pack. I still caught the occasional comment about my dad’s lack of mark. The people in this town were so superstitious. They wanted an alpha with the mark. With her as my mate, that mark was just as good on me as it was on her.
That was the one thing my father didn’t think about. Our pack wanted an alpha with a mark, but women weren’t supposed to get them. The alpha had to be a man. If the mark was on my mate, it might as well be mine. A mated pair were seen as two halves of the same soul. Her mark, was my mark.
“The goddess made a mistake. It was supposed to be on me,” I said.
“The goddess doesn’t make mistakes,” Jenny said.
“Then why put us together in the first place?” I demanded. “She was nothing. A wolf who couldn’t shift with a mother who is a disgrace. Why was I paired with her?” Even as I said the words, my stomach tightened with guilt. I was to defend Lola, not say these things about her.
I had given up on trying to hate her, but I wasn’t sold on why we were together in the first place. Any other woman would have been more suitable. “Why her?”
“The moon goddess doesn’t make mistakes,” Jenny repeated.
“You’re not helping,” I said.
“Look, you want her?” Jenny asked. “Like, for real, willing to do the work, want her?”
“Why else would I be here?” I asked.
“The longer she fights the bond, the stronger it gets. You’ve already accepted it. She won’t have much choice but to do the same soon.”
“So, I wait?” I narrowed my eyes. “Tell me something better than to have patience.”
“You go to her,” Jenny said.
“I tried that,” I said.
“You need to be around her, give her a chance to feel your wolf close to hers,” Jenny said.
“You want me to shift around her?” I’d done that already and it hadn’t made any difference.
“You get her to shift with you. If your wolves run together in harmony, she’ll be yours for life. You convince her wolf, she won’t have a choice,” Jenny said.
Jenny stood and crossed the room. She removed a small box from a cabinet, then resumed her place on the rocking chair.
