Page 93 of Marked for the Pack


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“This isn’t the same,”I growled at him as we crested a rocky slope.

“Not saying it is. I just — never mind,”Heath said.

“I bit her,”I admitted.

“Did she like it?”Heath asked, his ears swiveling toward me as if to catch my words, despite the fact that they were all in our heads.

“She fucking loved it — in the moment.”I sighed along our mental connection as we loped down the other side of the slope.

“And then she realized what it meant.”

“I told her the Frost Fang pack would see us as the Alpha Pair. That we could finally strike back at Ironwood—”

Heath laughed. He fucking laughed in my head. I whirled on him, nipping at his throat, but he danced away.

“I love you, Gage, but you’re a real idiot sometimes.”

I growled and charged him, but he simply sidestepped. We’d grown up wrestling and tangling together in our wolf forms. We knew each other too well to take each other by surprise. That didn’t change the fact that my anger had found a target at last.

“She’s probably freaking out that this means she can’t be with Flint, and here you are making declarations of war.”

I pulled up short. His words rendered me as breathless and frozen as if he’d dumped a bucket of ice water on me. I remembered her whispered words, saying that’d I’d taken Flint from her. Could she be right about that?

“No,”I gasped.

My wolf longed to howl, to seek the comfort of my pack. But I couldn’t — my breath hitched painfully as I realized I’d hurt my mate and possibly betrayed one of my closest friends. I didn’t deserve the comfort of the pack.

“That's the real reason Flint never bit her after her heat ended,”I realized.

Flint kept insisting she would choose all of us when her wolf appeared, but I hadn’t given much thought to the logistics of that. Normally, wolves mated in pairs. Did my bite make it impossible for the others…

“I don’t know,”Heath admitted.

I didn’t either, but I felt sick thinking of what I’d done.

He led me to the lookout point where we’d often hung out as kids. We would sit here for hours, looking down toward the pack house, the alpha residence, and all the surrounding pack housing on one side, and the next town over on the other.

It used to make me feel like a king, yet I’d never wanted to take my brother’s birthright. Garth had always wanted it more than I had. I’d never resented him for it, even though I’d always been slightly more dominant than him. Now here I was, pack alpha in his place. And it was even harder than I’d ever imagined.

“She told me she doesn’t want to rule.”

“Neither did you,”Heath reminded me.“It doesn’t change the fact that you are a natural-born leader. That you care more about others than for yourself.”

I snorted.“Tell that to Freya. She seems pretty convinced I’m just another alphahole like those bastards in Ironwood right now.”

Worse, I was starting to think she might be right.

“What are you going to do?”

I sighed and laid down with my head on my paws, watching the sunset.“I shouldn’t have bit her.”

Heath chuckled, then settled in beside me.“She marked you, too.”

“She didn’t mean to. I think she was as surprised as I was. And when she saw the matching mark under her collarbone…”

“Was it the exact same mark?”Heath asked.

“Exactly the same.”

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