chapter 127

I wasn’t really listening because I couldn’t get the concept of dual marks out of my mind. Was it that same way for true mates for protectors too? Getting a mark from the goddess was rare, and so was finding your true mate. I wondered how often a mated pair like me and Alec happened. Plus, there was the mind-blowing fact that we’d both been fated to someone else when we got our marks. The fates really did work in strange ways.

“My mom doesn’t have a mark,” I said, suddenly. “Do you or does your brother? Do kings get marks?”

“Sometimes. I don’t, and neither does Chris. Our father had a mark, as did our mother. My grandfather didn’t and he ruled for sixty years. We aren’t chosen for the job by the Moon Goddess. It’s passed down to us and as long as nobody challenges us, we maintain it.”

“Sounds like a weak system,” I said.

“Perhaps. But shifters like tradition. Only a member of the royal bloodline can throw down an official challenge. It takes a lot more for another line to attempt to t