Author's note: this is from Sergio's point of view

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I was staring at the most beautiful woman I ever saw in my life and my head was buzzing.

'Mate!', my wolf broke his silence after more than a decade. 'Mate! Mate!'

As much as I was pleased to hear his voice again, I had to disappoint him. 'I don't want a mate.'

'You are an idiot.', my wolf growled. 'If you mess this up for us, I will never talk to you again!'

As she got closer, I was hit with subtle, yet fragrant, scent of moonflower that made me dizzy.

'How appropriate…', I thought.

Moonflower is an alluring flower that opens its delicate white petals only at night. It's beautiful, yet toxic with hallucinogenic properties, and I wondered if I'm imagining all this.

Seraphina introduced her as Calista. Beautiful name.

Calista. Alista. Lista. Ista. Sta. Ta. A…

I could do that all night long. Actually, I could do her all night long. Everything about her was perfect, including the way she frowned at me.

'Is she a vampire?', I asked my wolf even though I knew the answer the moment our eyes met.

'So? She is a pureblood, so you don't need to deal with her master or owner. She is a free spirit. She is ours. Mate. Perfect.'

Yes, yes. If her eyes were not red, it meant that someone turned her, and those vampires are always serving the one who provided the venom to make them into vampires.

'She doesn't like me.'

My wolf didn't think it's a big deal. 'She doesn't know you.'

She was talking about some cocktail, and she smiled and licked her lips seductively and my cock lurched in response. What the hell was that?

THIS is why I said that I don't want a mate. My mind and my body are not my own anymore, and I don't know anything about her!

I groaned in frustration.

Serina asked me if I'm OK, but there was NO WAY I'm saying that Serina's aunt is my mate.

I bolted to my feet and excused myself with an intention to leave. I needed to think, and it was impossible to do it in Calista's vicinity because my mind was clogged with everything about her.

On my way out of the booth, I bumped into a woman. Where did she come from?

'You picked up two women before mate came…', my wolf reminded me.

I looked to my left and right blankly. Oh, right. I forgot.

How the hell can I forget that I picked up two women for the night? I was looking for the third one, but now… now what?

'Now you go and charm our mate and spend the night with her and the rest of our lives also.', my wolf said.

'Did your eyes go bad after so much time?', I asked him. 'Didn't you see that she hates me?'

I was already on the street, and I heard the young master shouting for me to stop. Great. Now what?

He asked me what's going on and where I was going, and he said that Seraphina is worried.

I refused to answer any of his questions. There was no way I could explain it to him.

Damn it! It's all Seraphina's fault! If she didn't bring her aunt, I wouldn't know I have a mate. And if Seraphina didn't insist to check on me, the young master wouldn't come and I would be free. Why is she meddling?

'Don't talk badly about our Luna!', my wolf growled.

I was stupefied. 'Luna?'

'Our Alpha perished and that means the man in front of us is our Alpha. Seraphina is his partner, soon to be wife, so she is our Luna.'

That… I didn't even know how to respond to that.

'It was better when you were quiet.' Definitely less confusing.

My wolf snorted. 'Ungrateful brat! Thanks to me you were a good shaman. If not for my senses, you would be a below-average warrior. Show some respect!' In the next moment, I could feel him wag his tail in joy. 'Mate is coming!'

My head snapped to the side, and I saw Calista and Seraphina coming our way.

Calista is a stunner. She is not very tall, but she has curves in all the right places, and the way she holds herself shows that she is not a pushover.

'You love her already!'

'Shut up!' Yes, she is hot, but I wouldn't be this infatuated if not for the idiotic mate bond! And it's getting stronger the closer she is.

For some odd reason, Seraphina and the young master returned to the club, leaving me with Calista. Why did she stay behind?

I started walking backward, hoping to find an exit.

I needed space to think, and her proximity was messing with my brain. Every fiber of my being was drawn toward this wonderfully nasty vampire and I hated that I can't resist the delightful pull.

"Are you running away from me?", she asked, and I froze.

She glared at me with those beautiful red eyes, and I saw her fangs.

My wolf howled, urging me to ask her to bite me. He lost his mind completely.

I moved backward until my back hit the wall.

"What do you want?", I croaked.

Calista shouted something while pointing at the nightclub and I observed her flawless face. She was beautiful when she was angry, and I was completely dazed.

"Say something!", she snapped impatiently.

I was not sure what she said, but I guessed that she wanted me to go back into the club. She didn't want me to leave. That's definitely a positive.

"Since you came with Rina, you can use my booth, but don't bring any of your sluts there."

She doesn't want me to be with other women? "Are you… jealous?"

Her face darkened, giving it another layer of attraction. Shadows make her sexy.

"You can't bring your sluts in there because that's MY booth and that's the place where I bring MY sluts. Get it?"

Rage swelled inside me. Is she thinking of finding some other man? But she said how in that booth are her sluts, and that I can use that booth, so I thought of asking, "Am I your slut?"

Her eyes flashed in what I assumed was her fury. I guess she didn't see me as a slut. That should be a good thing, right?

"Are you coming?", she asked, and I nodded robotically before following one step behind her.

I was so out of it that whatever she wanted, the answer would be, 'yes'. Stupid mate bond!

I took deep breaths and the scent of moonflower reminded me of the garden I had a long time ago when I was still a shaman of the Bluemoon pack.

This woman was my future, yet she reminded me of my past, and that's how I knew that she was, is, and will be my everything. I was at her mercy.

We returned to the booth where several funky cocktails waited on the table.

Calista took one with her elegant fingers and we all clinked our glasses in a toast.

I watched her scrumptious lips touch that glass and open slightly, and I wondered how those lips would feel around my shaft. Damn it!

"You kids have fun. I just found mine…", Calista said and walked out of the booth.

'Wake up!', my wolf snapped.

'What!?'

'If you stay like that, our mate will be taken by another man.'

I fervently searched the faces of people on the dancefloor, and I saw Calista dancing with some bloke. His hands were on her waist, and she was smiling, and… I saw red.

No one... NO ONE touches what's MINE!

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