"Is it possible that the alpha has never received a 'no' from any female?" I asked suspiciously. "How could it be fair for me to be the first one to deny him? Is he doing this out of spite towards me?" Amith's smile widened, with a peculiar gleam in her eye, as if she knew some cosmic joke that I hadn't seen yet. "Most alphas I've worked with over the centuries have quite big egos. So I think it's fair to take them off their pedestals every now and then, to make them realize they're just as human as the rest of the world."
"Well, on that, we agree," I said.
Amith laughed in a controlled and serious manner. "But alphas are also more affected by Lupercalia than you, who are just wolves or half-wolves." She observed me again. "They have self-control shaped by years of training with witches
