Gabriel Martin has hope. Three of the Alphas on the council have found mates in the past few years. Returning to New York from Atlanta, he comes across a human who has been raped in an alleyway. The human is his mate, Kane Brady.<br><br>Kane has been teaching at the local high school and refuses to rubber stamp the education of their star basketball players -- almost paying the price with his life. He’s unusual as he’s a human Omega but he can’t be intimate with Gabriel because of his horrific experience.<br><br>It’s up to the Alphas and their Mates to help Kane recover and accept all that it is to be with Gabriel.

Marking Kane

Agnes smiled, “I use steel cut oats, the kind you have to cook, then I added your maple syrup and some brown sugar.”


“Thank you. That brought back fond memories.”


Gabriel stood. “Let’s go take that shower. Luckily the bump on your head didn’t need stitches. But I’m going to have to wash your hair. Otherwise, you’ll get shampoo in your eyes.”


They passed a full-length mirror as Gabriel helped him limp to the bathroom Kane stopped and gaped in horror. That pitiful creature in the mirror was him. Another tear escaped. He turned his head away from Gabriel. He noticed a thin golden thread no wider than a hair connecting him to Gabriel. Maybe my eyes are worse than I thought.


Gabriel turned the fancy shower on a setting he told Kane was called rain. The water came down in droplets that hurt less on his bruised skin. Gabriel had to stop him from using the net scrubber so hard that he nearly bled.


Chapter 15