Chapter 19

STELLA

I wake up feeling a little groggy. I stretch a little but stop as pain shoots through my shoulder and I hear his rough voice from behind me.

“Try not to move your shoulder too much. It will be sore for a little while as it heals..”

“Axel??”

I turn carefully to face him

“No, I am Wulfric, I am Axel’s wolf.”

“W... what did you do?”

I ask as fear of what he could have done and will do runs through me.

“Like I said, you are mine, and I marked you."

“Why?"

“Now that you are 18, I couldn’t allow you to walk amongst my unmated males without my mark on you... If I had left you unmarked, the unmated males in my pack would want to claim you for their own. It was bad enough to smell my Beta all over you.”

"Did you?...”

"No, I did nothing but mark you. I will not take the choice of giving your body to me. I would like you to come to me willingly for that!”

I lower my eyes from his,

“Am I going to be a wolf now?”

“No, my mark will not turn you. To change you, I need to give y