Chapter 33

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 these years, but when she was there enticing him, brushing up against him, biting him. He was barely hanging in there, but when Ember pounced on him, it was the final blow. That was when he lost control and