I'm not sure if I want to kiss or slap my mate. I don't condone violence, but everything I'm doing is to avoid her becoming his target. "Ani, baby," I whispered, but she shushed me. I was dumbfounded. "Do you understand what you are asking for, werewolf?" Zeus said with a quirked eyebrow, his tone bored, like it would take too much of his energy to entertain Anika. She rolled her eyes. "I was hit by it once, remember?" Now, his eyes widen. "You... were?" "Uh-hu," Ani affirmed. "And I'm still alive, so either you are losing your touch, or you aren't as great as you claim to be." For the gods... Zeus’s face flushed a dangerous, thunderous red, veins of lightning crawling up his neck and across his temples like fractures in the sky itself. The air howled. Every instinct in

