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Pure white. A mating mark, and not just a scar my subconscious had refused to heal.
Rafael never bit me. The most he did was take my hand and kiss the top of it. No. The mark meant I was West’s bonded mate, only with a bond tethering us together.
Only one substance in the world could do that to a pair of bonded supes.
Silver.
“Oh my Luna, Bishop! You put my mate in chains?”
“What did you expect me to do, canari? Hestoleyou.”
I can’t deny that. “Yes, but—”
“Ah… there it is.But.”
“Exactly.Buthe’s my mate.”
“He is now, isn’t he?”
“Bishop… what’s going on? I mean, Iknowwhat’s going on… but why did you separate us? Chains? Yes, he stole me, but he had his reasons.”
And I cannotbelieve I’m justifying everything West did to me. But I’m a shifter, after all. A she-wolf. We see things differently, don’t we?
As Alpha, Bishop sees things in his own way, too…
“A mark of a good Alpha is ceding control,” he says. At first, I think he’s changing the subject, until he adds, “It’s like Quinn with her feral. For nine months that stray sniffed around, waiting for make his move. If he took any longer, I might’ve grabbed him by the scruff and dropped him off in front of her. Only reason I didn’t is because, technically, she was still West’s intended. But we all knew that wasn’t gonna happen, didn’t we? Good thing, too. If she hadn’t gone off and mated her feral, who knows how much longer before West would’ve gotten the nerve to make his move.”
Hang on…
“You knew, didn’t you? You knew he took me?”
“Not at first. The quicksilver was smart,” Bishops grunts. “I wasn’t expecting that. I knew he was planning something when he spent all his time working on the cabin, but I figured he might be going lone wolf on me. When you were gone, I knew he had you. I might have had to find a backup Beta if it wasn’t for his contact phone calls, checking in with me.”
I blink, stunned. “West told you? What… everything? So you knew after? And you still didn’t rescue me?”
A nod.
“Why not?”
“He’s my Beta,” Bishop said simply.
And even when it seemed like West was going off the deep end, Bishop trust him.
Just like I did.
Well, maybe not as much as I did, considering—
“So why the chains?” I ask him. “If you were on board with this plan, why did you separate us? Why did you chain up my mate?”
“Because I’m the Alpha?”
“Bishop…”
“What? I had to let West do what he had to. No matter what, I knew you were safer with him than anyone else but me. Only you… You’re my little sister, canari. You’re all grown up… you’re bonded now… but you’re still my little sister. I had to make sure this was what you wanted.”
“Mates get to choose,” I remind him.
“That they do, but Omegas are different. They always have been. Too often they do what they think is best for others instead of being selfish like the rest of us wolves.”
