Chapter 29

Pippa's POV

River woke me just before Adrian came to my room. She took over long before she admitted to him that she had taken control. The last thing I can remember doing by myself was when I started playing with me hair – something I used to do when I was little and in trouble with Miss Loretta.

River easily and quickly pushed me out of the way, stopping me before I could tell Adrian that we had to wait, that I wasn’t at all sure I could survive his mark. And now it is too late, I’m on my back, naked from the waist up with Adrian on top of me.

And he has no idea that what’s going on. How can he? I can't tell him that I didn't willingly hand control over to River.

But Tammy did say that the wolf has to be on the surface during the ritual. It’s the only way I can survive. “Let her take control, but don’t shift,” she said. “If you shift during the marking, you can kill him.”

“Kill him? How?”

“Yes. It goes both ways. The wolf is stronger than the human. If you shift, your wolf will