章 35: Chapter 35 Needs Must

　　~ CASIMIR ~

　　If Jesse hadn't been quite so fucking beautiful tonight that she lit a fire in my insides, if my need for her wasn't quite so urgent, and if we didn't have the entire fucking pack breathing down our necks, I would have given in to the fury. Ignorant of the packmind or not, she was Queen. She was female Alpha. She, of all of us, had to control her urges and lead by example.

　　She, of all people, could do nothing to undermine my power.

　　Instead, she'd enticed males to her. She needed to understand the very dire circumstances she had created, and the consequences of them.

　　I should have punished her on the spot.

　　But the door behind me shuddered and rattled as the males, overcome with lust and intoxicated by the challenge, tried to break through to reach her.

　　They would not have her.

　　But I had to rip myself out of that kiss, still holding her face, panting. Jesse took a moment longer to blink and find herself.