Page 31 of My Bad Boy Alpha

“No.”

I narrowed my eyes.“You did.”

“I did not.”She giggled.“I promise.But if you don’t start believing in yourself, you won’t be able to protect this pack.”

My mouth dried.“Protect it from what?”

“From what’s coming.”

“Which is … Derrit?”

She paused and looked away.“I’ve tried to stop him with my own power, but I can’t.”

“You can’t …”

“But you can.”

“Me?”I whispered.

“Or, you know, I canmakeyou.”

“And how will you do that?”I asked.“I’m not strong.We’re not mated.”

She smirked.“I can put you through heat.Force you to mate.”

“You would not put me through heat right now.”

“Your choice.”

“Heat doesn’t happen until the full moon.”

“Heat happens when I say it happens.”

“B-but?—”

She hopped off the windowsill and stalked toward the bed.“You know you want him.”She laid a hand on my mate’s shoulder, and while she was the Moon Goddess, the gesture still made me possessive.“Look at him.”

I pressed my lips together and refused to respond because jealousy would drip from my voice like venom.

She stroked his hair.“Do you think he’d want to?—”

“Get your hands off my mate,” I growled.

Almost as quickly as she’d laid her hand on his head, she pulled it away and smirked at me.“There’s my girl.”She walked back to the windowsill and slipped onto it.“Now, all you have to do is let him mark you.”

“Let him mark me?”I repeated the words quietly to myself, glancing down at my mate.

The Moon Goddess lifted her fingers, and a gust of warmth blew through the room, searing my neck.I sucked in a sharp breath as the warmth grew hotter and hotter, almost to the point where it became unbearable.

From the focal point, heat radiated through my body.I pressed my thighs together.

“What have you done to me?”I asked.

“Helped you along.”

Heat gushed between my legs, and I lay back in the bed and closed my eyes, vowing that I wouldn’t wake Stone up—because if I did, then I feared I’d say somethingterribleto him.And by terrible, I didn’t mean something that I didn’t actually want.

Because I wanted him to mark me.To claim me.To give me his pups.

---