I caught a lot of heat for letting Michael be part of this chapter. A lot of readers felt it should have only been about Aiden and Ethan mating, them getting what they truly wanted. I came close to going that route. Yep, Michael is insane in my view and that of many others. But he got what he most wanted just like Ethan. In his case, it wasn't a tender, loving, though nearly deadly love-making scene. Michael wanted to be taken by an alpha. He might have screamed and struggled, while never attempting to stop what happened. This was his version of love-making as he saw it as a path to greater power.