Noah POV

Marking your mate connects both minds and hearts, almost as humans would call marriage. It's a promise never to leave one another.

When a wolf shows you his neck, they are telling you they surrender everything to you. Allowing you to wound them there, puts their life in yours.

This is why marking is sacred. It's the ultimate reveal of love.

And we just marked each other.

I stare up into the ceiling as and chuckle, replaying the moment again and again in my mind. My hand comes up to grab the healed mark on my shoulder.

It should already have bloomed into a tattoo, a symbol that...