Markus P.O.V.
When my father came into the room and confused Celeste with her mother, everything changed. For someone that had seemed so fragile to me, I felt her Alpha aura snap into place when she said her full name. It was like her aura had also been pretending to be something she wasn’t. Her attempt to protect herself went so deep. I believed her when she said she had been in danger.
I was still young when it happened. My father had been outraged and demanded the council investigate. He’s been friends with Alpha Cory and Luna Bella. I never met them myself, though I know their territory had only been a half hour’s drive to from the most southern end of our territory. I should take her there sometime if she wants to, I thought to myself as I rubbed her back in little circles as Gilli
