Maddox’s POV Once Xavier unblocked me, I was fuming with him. I should have marked her before he mated with Ember. They can’t communicate. What if their mating wasn’t consensual? Has he just messed up my chances of a relationship with Lottie? We had been saving ourselves for our mate all of this time, and he just let his animal instincts take over. I am fuming. If I had known he would have done something as stupid as that, I might have got rid of my urges myself with any of the multiple she-wolves that had thrown themselves at me over the years. But no, I waited for my mate, our mate. How it should be done. I will understand if she never forgives him. I am so ashamed of him right now and I let him know it. His response was simple. He had kept himself for his mate for all the