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“I didn’t know about it at all. I…” Senna tried to shake the feeling from her head. “Stop it. I don’t…I’ve never felt an alpha be calming. Are you drugging me?”

My mouth fell open. “What? Terrance never…well, no. I suppose he wouldn’t. Fucking bastard.”

Flicking her beautiful, night-sky blue eyes in my direction, my mate chuckled through the exhaustion claiming her.

“He really is.” At once, Senna scrubbed a hand over her face, shaking her head again. “Stop this. If you’re going to kill me, just get it over with, and let me be myself when it happens.”

The wood floor bit into my kneecaps as I closed the distance between us. I was right at her side now, and she didn’t have the strength to push me away. I’d give it back, but not until the hard part was over.

“I’m not going to kill you. Come on. I’ll make the pain stop.”

Sliding my hands beneath Senna’s legs and chest, I hauled her up off the floor. I struggled up the stairs with her before I gave in and just picked her all the way up.

Carrying Senna like a pup, I brought my mate to my bedroom. The space was cool and dark. I’d yet to pull open the curtains since I’d been in the study, and right now, I was glad for the dark. It would make it easier on her.

I closed the door with my foot and carried Senna to the bed. Laying her down, I sensed the flare of pain return, the broken alpha bond assaulting her once more. She was right here. My mate was in my bed and against my skin. I wanted to rut into her, claim her once and for all, but I couldn’t do that to her like this.

There were also several complications still remaining. Terrance had offered me a chance to possess a breeding omega or kill her for his crimes. He hadn’t agreed to pair me up with my mate, and even though I had cause to challenge his sacrifice for not disclosing that Senna had no wolf, the fact was I didn’t want to.

An alpha united with their partner was a mighty foe—one that no pack wanted to face. Terrance would be furious with me if he learned that I’d hidden the truth just as much as he had. And he’d try to take Senna away.

I don’t give a fuck about him right now, though.

“Just get it over with! Just kill me for your beta. I’m not worth breeding. You know that well enough.” Disgust filled Senna’s voice, and my chest pinched.

My mate’s words sawed my soul in two. I wouldn’t let her suffer like this. Kneeling next to her on the bed, I released more calming energy toward her. Senna swayed where she sat, collapsing to the bed. I didn’t do nearly as much as before. I just wanted to dull the pain.

“I, Jet Edwards, Alpha of the Edwards Pack, take you into my family. You belong to the Edwards, and I am your alpha now.”

Eyes wide and awestruck in Senna’s face, the claiming smoothed out around her, but it wouldn’t be complete without the blood binding. My mate stared up at me, her lips parted as she heaved in new breaths.

“Why are you doing this? Why claim me as a member of your pack?” She shook her head, but the pain of excommunication was leaving her, returning a bit of that fire to her eyes.

I pulled back the calming aura, and Senna shot up into a sitting position again. Her rose and almond scent was scorched with char as she glared at me.

“You are a part of my pack.”

The alpha presence worked better on her now. I could feel her spirit’s need to obey her alpha’s command, but I wasn’t about to create a scion and not a genuine pack member.

“I don’t—you agreed to take me. To kill me as Terrance’s sacrifice.”

“I agreed to take you in. I never actually said what I was going to do with you. Wrist.”

Senna was a skittish thing, jumping back as I reached out for her, and I met her narrowed eyes.

“Please.”

She must have realized that I could have just forced her to do it, because Senna’s lips parted again, her eyes wide once more. I hated to think about the treatment she’d been subjected to under Terrance’s alpha claim, especially as an omega without a wolf.

“Why?” She sunk into herself, staring at me.

“So that I can finish the pack claiming. I’m not leaving you as a scion.”

Senna blinked, her eyes flickering between me and the bed. I could see the apprehension in her expression as much as I could feel it through our bond. But after a moment, she turned her wrist face up toward me and held it out.

The moment struck, and I realized that alpha claims were actually quite similar to mate bonds. I didn’t think Senna was about to let me get away with that one, however.

Taking her arm, I lifted the fair skin of her wrist up to my mouth, baring my teeth. Fangs extended as I called on them, and a faint tremble shook Senna’s fingers.

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