Katia's mind was a chaotic blur. Everything had happened too fast.
When the searing pain from the mark on her neck hit her, she was completely unprepared. Her scream echoed through the grand hall as she tried to break free from the King's embrace, only to be trapped by waves of agony.
He had marked her in front of all these people. The King had marked her in front of Alpha Xandar, at Xandar's own inauguration ceremony, and Xandar could do nothing about it. Today, people would remember the day the King found his fated mate, not the day Xandar became Head Alpha.
Xandar clenched his jaw so hard his teeth might crack, his nails digging deep into his palms.
His wolf raged inside him, desperate to surge forward and tear everything apart, to rip Katia from that man's arms. She belon
