-oO…Flashback (Cont’d.)…Oo- Orion POV The crowd gasped. I mean, who wouldn’t? It was also the first time we looked at each other’s mating marks. Awe-struck would be an understatement. Goddess, I mind-linked her for my breath hitch on my throat, and my junior stirred. You’re beautiful. In return, her gaze at me was intense. What do I look like? Show me, and I’ll show you, I smiled as I mind-linked back. She complied… then gasped as her eyes glazed. I couldn’t help but grin wider — although my mouth became an ‘O’ when she sent me her own snapshot of her vision of me. No wonder the pack was amazed. I’ve been through a couple of botched mating ceremonies before, and it was never like this. What had been two pinpricks from our canines had bloomed and now shone in the moonlight, b

