JAMES’S POV
Flashback
Dammit, I could still feel the echo of the excitement hammering in my chest while Maren’s proposal kept spinning in my head like an infinite loop, igniting a fire I couldn't put out.
In fact, I had liked Maren from the very first second I saw her at the Blue Moon, against the club lights in that strappy dress that looked sculpted onto her body. Her hair shimmered under the spotlights, and she had a smile that made me feel like a crazed demon, my blood boiling with the pure instinct to possess her.
Her height, her curves... everything about her seemed to have been designed millimetrically to fit with me. At first, I thought such a beautiful girl would ignore me, that I would simply be another young Alpha trying to get her attention. But when she approached me and p
