*Alec’s hand instinctively reached out for 479, everything within him telling him to protect his mate. This wasn’t right. None of this was, that is, to Manticore’s society. His eyes were locked on Max while he laced his fingers with 479, incapable of letting him go when they had barely met...
Yes! You are going to believe that, because, you know what? We're mates. We bonded, Max. He and I is the strongest thing I ever felt in a long ass time so if you think your opinion about us is going to change my mind about how much I love him? You're dead wrong. So what if he's an experiment? You are too and I still tolerate you! *Alec could feel this side of him just wanting Max to back off from his mate. Now that 479 was back by his side, he was never letting him go ever again.* I don't care what you think. I really don't. I did things and most of the time, I regretted them, but 479? He was never one of them. Ever. I will always be his as he will be mine. Such is how mating works. *Hell, he would kill in the most gore like ways to be back with 479 again. He reached behind him to lace his fingers with his and calm him down when he sensed how tense he was.* I got you. *He whispered as he peeked over his shoulder at him* I love you.








