Chapter 23: Wolf Reflection

*Dominic*

Idiot.

I honestly couldn't tell if that was my own voice, or my wolf's. He had been yelling at me so much in my conversation with Valeria, and on this thought, we agreed.

I am an idiot.

"Damn right, you are," my wolf growled in agreement with our assessment as we walked away from the pull drawing me to that girl. "Now go get our mate!"

"No," I told him firmly.

Despite the rolling feeling in my stomach, the ache in my chest, and the slow-building pain in my head, I did not regret what I had said. Well…maybe just a little, but that didn't change the outcome.

"You know that we can't," I growled back as my wolf howled in anger in my head.

"I know no such thing!" he shouted back at me. "This is your stupid decision, one that I do not agree with, and if you continue to be so stubborn about it I fear that we will lose the chance to get a mate forever. Your dumbass choices affect me too, you know!"

"It's for the best," I said to him, keeping my jaw clenched tightly.

"Bullsh