SYDNEY
As Alpha Gray's lips touched mine, a spark of electricity ran through my body. I felt the mate bond stirring, awakening from its slumber. It was a sensation I wasn't accustomed to, one that I'd felt before but had tried to suppress.
But now, with Alpha Gray's lips on mine, the mate bond flared to life. I could feel it coursing through my veins, a potent force that threatened to overwhelm me. I tried to push it back, to hide it from Alpha Gray, but it was no use. The mate bond was too strong to resist and too insistent.
Alpha Gray's eyes narrowed, his gaze piercing as he pulled back from the kiss. I could see the confusion in his eyes, the uncertainty. He felt it too, the mate bond's power. But he didn't understand it and didn't know what it meant.
“What was that?” Alpha Gray qu
