Chapter 20: Insecure pt 2 - Marcus

I slump into my chair with my head in my hands. Meeting your animai isn’t supposed to be this much work. Everyone I know who’s mated with theirs did not have to go through this shit. I feel like the Gods are punishing me.

“So, have you apologised to your animai yet?” I hear Jasper’s voice to my left. I groan and rest my forehead on the table. “What did you say to her this time?” he asks, and I can hear the irritation in his voice.

“She thinks I hate her, but I told her I don’t,” I mumble into the table.

“I detect a ‘but’,” he says.

“I… told her I hate that she’s an Alpha,” I say flinching, waiting for him to blow up at me, not that it’s any of his business. I hear his slow hard breath through his nose. He’s mad.

“What in the name of the Goddess compelled you to say that to her? Are you intentionally being a fucking asshole? At this point if she rejects you or even kills you I’m going to pardon it, I’ll call it justifiable homicide,” he says fe