Chapter 40 Betrothed To The Alpha King

• Nathan carries me down the path, to the ritual grounds. The other members of the pack have already transformed; I hear their calls from the dark woods.
• I twirl some of his fur in my fingers, my head cradled in the dip of his shoulder. “I didn’t expect it to be like that. I don’t know what I expected it to be like, but not that.”
• He makes a noise like the snorting of a bull and his claws tighten around me.