Dylan’s POV
That freaking shithead announced a mating ceremony! That also with my MADISON!!!
The announcement echoed through every corridor of power before I could stop it! Austin, declaring a mating ceremony, binding HER to him as if she never belonged anywhere else. As if everything I did, everything I sacrificed, meant nothing.
She was mine! She IS mine!
My wolf raged inside me, the bond screaming in protest, twisted and corrupted by the blood curse still clinging to it. I could feel her, distant, unreachable, yet painfully present. And worse than losing her was the humiliation of it being done so publicly.
I couldn’t wait. I stormed into the council gathering without invitation, my parents tagged behind me, their faces pale with fear. Austin stood at the center of the chamber, cal
