Chapter 295

Joseph's POV Last night with Ava was unlike anything I'd ever experienced. The way her body responded to mine, and how she completely surrendered herself, truly awakened something primal in me. Something dangerous. As I watched her sleeping peacefully beside me, her hair spread across my pillow, I felt that familiar urge rising again. The need to claim her, to mark her as mine forever. "Mark her," Dean growled inside my head. My wolf had been super vocal since Ava came into our lives. "She belongs to us. Make her our mate now." I closed my eyes, trying to shut him out. This overwhelming possessiveness was new to me. I'd been with countless women before, but I'd never felt this desperate need to claim someone. "She's different," Dean insisted. "She's ours." "We need to take this slow," I replied mentally. "She doesn't even have a wolf. The Elder council would never accept her." "Fuck the council!" Dean snarled. "I don't care if she's wolfless." Dean was too animalistic to understand com