I was staring in shock at Rayden and Ares. Rayden had changed into a completely different man in the blink of an eye, and it was shocking for me to see an Alpha pinned against the wall like that. It was even harder to accept what was happening was because of me. Ares was being held against the wall by this powerful, furious man because of the way I made him feel. But he didn’t seem to be afraid, and he wasn’t struggling to try to free himself, or putting up any fight at all. He was just looking at Rayden with the same passive expression he had when he looked at me when I transformed. “You can hit me if you want, Rayden. It isn’t going to achieve anything, though. We’re bonded, and whether you approve of that or not is of no interest to me. It isn’t something we can change.” “You…” Ray