Chapter Nine: MarkedThe only thing stopping him from tearing into Ethan is the fact that the little Rabbit Shifter is staring at the both of them while trembling like a leaf, her legs folded up with her arms wrapped around herself, like she means to make herself as small as possible.
As if she could be any smaller than she already is.
"I've marked her," Ethan snarls, unable to keep the derision from his tone. It is an archaic way of claiming a mate, honestly, but it's one that he would cling to if it means he gets to keep her at all.
"And she ran to me," William snarls right back, all fangs and claws, forgetting to be proper, to hold his beast back so that his young charge wouldn't see him like this.
"I imagine she just ran somewhere she could be alone and you snatched her from her nes
