Chapter 23

The turning point came quickly and naturally.

Gu Haochen entered his susceptible period.

Because I was recovering from an injury, I had been lying alone in the master bedroom for half a month, while Gu Haochen slept in the guest room next to the study. That early morning, I was awakened by the thick scent of pheromones. As soon as I opened my eyes, I met Gu Haochen’s gaze.

The moonlight outside the window was still cold.

Gu Haochen braced his hands on either side of my pillow, his face flushed, eyes hazy, breath burning hot, and the aggressive pheromones kept burrowing into my skin.

I reached out to push him away, but he pinned my hand down, his muscles bulging, strength several times greater than usual.

He leaned down toward me, sweat from the tip of his nose dripping onto the edge of my collarbone.

“You want to mark me?”

I understood, a faint smile spreading at the corner of my lips.

He wanted to take advantage of my lack of resistance to do everything, best if he could get me pregnant, and afterward blame it all on the susceptible period, apologize, and have it both ways?

What a pity, though-an Alpha can’t mark another Alpha. Now, controlled by instinct, he was actually at a disadvantage.

I cupped the back of his head and kissed him, letting him bite my lips, then reached under the pillow for a vial of medicine and injected it into his neck.

He collapsed limply, breathing heavily as he looked at me, the rims of his eyes red.

I saw the obsession in his eyes and could no longer suppress the pheromones I’d held back for days.

“Too bad, I’m in my susceptible period too,” I whispered in his ear.

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