The alpha snorted a soft sound, tipping his head to drag his slightly sharper than normal human teeth against the scaled skin of the boy's neck, sinking in a slow, hard, even bite that would be likely to lightly bruise more than pierce. "Found a place to bite anyway," he pointed out, before setting his teeth again at the join of neck and shoulder and giving a sharper, more enthusiastic bite, testing the dark scales as he shoved the boy's body more roughly against the counter's edge at his back, pinning him hard.