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"I don't know? Nothing? I don't feel anything. What does it look like?"

"It, it looks like three Moons, two are Crescent, the one in the middle has a tree in its center and has all the moons aligned on top if it."

"Odd."

"What really happened during your shift?" she insisted.

"Can we talk about it when there isn't such a large audience?" I asked quietly. She nodded her head.

"Alright, everyone, let's get back to the party and let the girls rest a bit." We walked back to the grand ballroom, where the men had all returned. I looked around for Liam…

The spark. It should be time. I spotted him near King Allen and his father, Alpha Cain. Prince Lucas was nowhere in sight.

I sighed and started across the room when he looked up. I saw him sniffing the air and spinning around. I felt something electrically strong course through me. It felt like a spark... Was this finally it?

He's my mate!

Liam approached and looked down at me, furrowing his brow. Wait, something is wrong. He shook his head and pushed me to the side, walking right up to Summer.

No!

I stood there, watching, as he wrapped his arms around my sister. She stared up at him, blinking slowly before he kissed her more passionately than he had ever kissed me.

Everyone stopped and stared at them, then at me. I could feel the tears welling in my eyes. A lump formed in my throat as I watched my sister, Summer offer her neck to Myvboyfriend.

"He's not going to do what I think he's going to do? Is he?" Alexis asked a bit loudly.

"I-I don't know. It's public. He would never do something so tacky and taboo, right?" I looked at her as tears streamed down my cheeks.

My stomach lurched and I could feel bile rising in my throat. He nuzzled her before biting. Sinking his canines into my sisters collarbone. He marked her! He marked my sister!

"Holy shit. He marked her in public." Alexis stared at the spectacle before us.

"Liam!" Alpha Cain hollered from across the room.

Gasps went up around the room. It was tacky and taboo to mark your mate in public. That was an intimate thing that was to be done in private amongst those two wolves.

For a future Alpha to mark his mate in public, that was unheard of. Whispers went up amongst the others in the room, I glanced at the King and he had the most horrified and disgusted look on his face.

"I don't think this is going to make Liam a favorite amongst the Alphas," Alexis said, following my gaze to the leaders of our realm.

"How....how could he do that in public like that? In front of me no less?!" A sob escaped my throat as I turned to run. I couldn't bear the sight of it.

"Winter," my mother called after me.

"Summer!" I heard Richard scream.

I just shook my head and ran from the room. I ran down the hallway and started up the stairs. The feeling in the pit of my stomach returned. The electricity. I stopped and looked around, seeing nothing.

I shook my head and ran to my room, slamming the door behind me. How could he be her mate He's supposed to be mine! I leaned against the door, sliding to the floor, and cried.