Mine to Possess

I didn’t like Aeliana saying she couldn’t be my mate. It felt like a rejection, something I’d never experienced in my two centuries of life. No one has ever turned me down. No one has ever said no to me.

When I realize that she’s afraid of abusing the power that claiming me would give her, something in me settles. She is not rejecting me as her mate. She simply does not want the power that claimin