"Alex, mark her, mark her now," Ares snarled at me. f**k, it was so hard to keep him at bay, and having Kailee on top of me was not helping. "Ares, we can't; it is not her but her bear. Kailee might not want this, and she could hate us after," I tried to reason with him, but he wasn't listening. All he could think about was marking her, what it would feel like when he sunk his canines in her tender skin, and how sweet her blood would taste. Fuck! No, I had to snap out of it. "Winter, please let Kailee forward. She has to make that decision, not you," I demanded. The look Winter gave me could kill me. She was unhappy that I didn't want to mark her, but I would not let her go over Kailee's decision. "You know what Kailee has been through and how much it would break her if you make