I held my breath in terror, my lungs burning as if the very air had turned to glass. I begged the universe that the answer would not be my worst nightmare, that my father would tell me it was just a legend told to keep Lunas submissive. The silence of the lake seemed to amplify the frantic thudding of my heart, a drumbeat of pure, unadulterated dread.
This could not be real, betrayal by the man I had stood beside for years was one thing, but to be erased by the very nature that was supposed to protect me was another.
“No,” he answered to my relief. “It becomes a triangle. A parasitic one. His mark stays on you, but his soul, his wolf, is pulled toward her. To keep that three-way bond from turning into some biological disaster, both the Alpha and the fated mate have to accept the third.
