~ CARA ~
Natalie called Tessa twice for advice on my make up. I’d told her in no uncertain terms I wanted to look as natural as I could.
When she was finished on my face, I found myself blinking into the mirror and stunned… because I still looked like me. Just better.
“Wow.”
Natalie smiled as she tugged a brush through my hair and got started with a hot curling iron. “That’s what he’ll say,” she quipped.
I snorted, my cheeks flushing, though the makeup hid a lot of it.
My head was swimming. Natalie had admitted she was teasing a little bit about the claiming, but she had explained—a wolf marked their mate, usually. It was something that happened after they’d completed the bond. And apparently, at least for a wolf, it changed their scent so that any other wolf would know that wolf was mated and unavailable.