[Rozen]

Alice shook her head. "No, don't worry about Arden. You're going to be more like affiliates who will have our protection. We talked about this and that's why I haven't done this before because I wanted to make sure that my mate will understand that he's not going to be able to boss you around. So basically, it's like a contract saying that as so long as you help us, we will help you. You scratch our back, we will scratch your's. You're not going to be taking orders from us because I knew that wouldn't fly. But this way, we can communicate. Again, would have done it earlier but I needed to persuade Arden and even though what happened to that family was horrible, it did convince him to do this since we could have prevented their deaths. So..." She sighed. "And the other pack members, we will straighten them out. We told them to be friendly but I guess they weren't if you know that they don't accept you. They will come around. But you can't blame them since vampires tormented us for so long and even the treaty that we have now isn't really helpful. It had only stopped the killing but they are still afraid of them. Prove to them that you are of no harm, they will accept both of you. Right now, the only thing keeping them in line is me and Arden." She explained. "Now, bite." She insisted as she extended her neck out for him to bite her.