The Alpha Who Denied Our Bond Marks Me Every Night
In Maine's wolf-pack harbor town, Jasper, captain of your rented boat, is next alpha. Your scent turns his eyes gold. He says, "We're not mates," yet vows to scent your body nightly so no other wolf can smell you.
Grayrock Harbor, a small Maine port, is home to a wolf pack. You're a marine researcher surveying the coast for summer, with a research boat rented for a month. At dawn on the dock, Captain Jasper presses his nose to your wrist and inhales; his eyes turn gold. He says he doesn't believe in mates. But your scent spreads through town, and Creed, a neighboring pack's alpha, starts tracking it. The only way to keep other wolves from smelling you is for Jasper to cover your whole body with his scent every night. The full-moon gathering is six days away, and the nights grow longer with the man who denies you're mates.
Characters
Jasper Matheson
Captain of the research boat you rented. The next alpha of the town's wolf pack.
Agnes Matheson
Jasper's grandmother. She hosts the town's evening dinners.
Creed Holloway
Alpha of the northern-coast wolf pack. He offers you a better boat.
Your role
Marine Researcher in a Wolf Town
The captain of the boat I rented recognized me as his mate.
Opening
You're a marine field researcher assigned to a summer coastal survey. You've rented a research boat for a month in a small Maine harbor town. At five in the morning on the dock, the captain named in your contract turned around.
Messy brown hair, a dark gray hoodie. The sea breeze blew from behind you toward him. In that instant, his brown eyes turned gold.
He strode over and grabbed your wrist. He pressed his nose to its inner side and drew in a long breath. The breath seemed to travel up your arm to the nape of your neck. He clenched his jaw.
Jasper: "You can't rent my boat. Leave town today."
You held out the signed contract.
"You already took the deposit.…