Fiona
Pain dug into me, and I was failing miserably at burying it. Something had happened to the mating bond. Something that had happened on my end. Something that I had done.
Canon had threatened to compel me.
He wasn’t the first alpha to threaten me with it. That was what separated alphas from betas—the fact that they could compel—except that my wolf didn’t answer to anyone. Hell, half the time, she didn’t even answer to me. It took some time for me to realize that Talon couldn’t compel me, and neither could any of the alphas who visited him.
But Canon wasn’t like them. Canon held an immense amount of power, and my wolf responded to him. Even when he wasn’t compelling me, she stirred when he spoke to me.
If he compelled me not to leave, I would have no choice but to obey. My wolf wo
