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Chapter 15

-Alisha’s cry came out too high-pitched for the sensitive ears of the two wolves present.

Serguei had spent more than half an hour carefully explaining to her what they were, where they came from and what had happened to their women. He had to be very tactful to tell her what he had discovered about her, and the temporary remedy he thought necessary to help her. Alisha had listened word by word, taking in every detail, her mouth would only open to say something, but it closed again just as quickly. She frowned and massaged it in an attempt to remove it futilely. But it was the last part that had made him get up from his seat.

She could assimilate that she wasn’t human, after surviving a gunshot to the chest and the next day being as good as new, anything was soluble, in inverted commas. That she was in a house full of wolf shifters, or shifter, as he had called them. That she had a wolf running around inside her trying to take control of her body, difficult to assimilate but still passable, but the part about sleeping with Christian was out of the question.

It wasn’t that she disliked the man, to be honest if it wasn’t for recent events and the way she was, she would have appreciated having him in her bed a long time ago. The few times they had gone out, the women had eaten him up with their eyes, even her, from time to time, her gaze had strayed. But that was one thing and this was a different story and she wasn’t ready for that kind of commitment, even if her life and sanity depended on it.

-I won’t. I’m not going to sleep with him, Sergei.” She spoke to him as if she’d known him for a lifetime. There was something about him that made her feel comfortable. Even more so than with her self-proclaimed partner who had the face of a friend. He was not at all happy with her partner’s rejection.

Alisha put her fingers to the back of her neck and remembered the saying of the mark. The beta had bitten her and thanks to that she was supposedly alive but the consequences were high. One of them was the annoying physical attraction she felt that her mind rejected.

-Alisha. It’s the only way. Your wolf has almost taken over your body twice and if it does it completely we don’t know what will happen to you, you might not even be able to return to your human form.

The girl shivered unconsciously. The alpha had told her about her episode of her first transformation and not remembering anything, not being in control of her body terrified her.

-We believe that the reason you have returned so quickly to your normal state is because your human part is partly in contact with Cristian’s and does not sink into unconsciousness, otherwise we would have lost you a long time ago,” she said.

-My head is going to explode with all this, there are gaps that I don’t understand, and why it’s so hard for me to master what I have inside me if it’s part of who I am.

-We are born as humans but from the age of two to four we go through the Lumus phase, where we change completely into wolves. As we are puppies our animal is not as strong and it is easier to dominate it and our reasoning almost never vanishes- although he had a case under his own roof that didn’t apply to that term- In your case the wolf inside you is not only adult, it is ancient, that’s why it overrides all your sense. If you are paired with Cristian, from his wolf we can interact with yours.

The range of options for Alisha had closed so much that there was no question of doubt. Apparently it was either be with Cristian or lose everything she was.

-They’re not plotting against me to get us through the night,” she was still looking for an escape hatch. She really wasn’t ready to give herself to him and what would happen to them afterwards. She didn’t want to know.

-Alisha, do you think that in this situation we would play with such a delicate subject,” Cristián was still beside her, resting his elbows on his knees while he looked at her from the side of his shoulder, “For us, the companions are the most important thing, without them we are nothing. I myself spent more than 200 years looking for you.

-Until you found me,” he finished the sentence. There was doubt in his eyes.

-And I have no intention of losing you.” The beta stood up, taking off his sweater and tossing it beside her.

-What are you doing?” His outburst took her by surprise. Surely he had lost his patience and would take her right there.

-Something tells me you don’t quite believe what we tell you. So I’ll prove it to you.” He was already beginning to undo the button of his trousers, revealing the blond hairline that was lost further down, where imagination can work wonders.

He heard her swallow dryly as she glued herself to the other end of the sofa undecided what to do. The surprise factor had worked.

Serguei got up and walked past her to the door.

-I’ll leave it in your hands. Don’t screw up this time because I’ll make sure I’ll have her in custody and you 20 km away.

-Don’t worry alpha. I’m just going to show her what she represents in the relationship.

Alisha watched with glazed eyes as the alpha walked out leaving her with the half naked man.

She would definitely put him on her blacklist. And if she got out of that one in one piece, she would plan her revenge. A very slow and painful one.