She was startled. The kiss and the words he had said to her in the past came back to her mind in flashbacks. Her heart pounded against her like a marathon when she saw him moving his gaze to her neck. She was an unmarked omega. For the first time, she was frightened of being an unmarked wolf. Throughout the years, no Alpha could threaten her for being a woman, nor did they take advantage of her rank. Why did her wolf come back? If she were wolfless like the past five years, she would not have felt frightened. Even if she was a woman, she never thought of herself as less than a man. It was true that she never got into a fight with wolves, but she knew how to fight in her human form. Now that her wolf was back, she would have to think about the other way. She closed her eyes and thou

