Chapter 22. The Agreement

“If I own you as you do me, does that mean I also have access to your thought?”

“You don’t. I am the alpha king. Getting into my head, especially since our union never got consummated, would be impossible for you. Even if the union was consummated, it’ll still be an arduous task.”

“But it can be done.” She clung to a little hope.

He nodded.

“I still do not understand why you’re calm through all this. You’ve snapped in the past for way less.” She didn’t believe the awakening of his father could tame him this much. Nothing could tame a man like the alpha king.

He lifted his left hand and there was a ring on his middle finger that glowed red.

She hadn’t noticed it since she stepped into the room. Her mind had been on something else. She wondered if it was what she was thinking.

“It’s a restrain ring,” he said, confirming her suspicion. “My mother made it and gave it to me as a gift.”

Layla Ainsworth was not only the Queen in her time, she