“You promised yourself to that lunatic?!” he roared. “He only wants you before your wolf forms on your birthday, and at the rate you’re going, that’s sure to happen!”
“Don’t yell at me, Craig.” I stood my feet and glared at the man who was plaguing my mind from the moment I laid eyes on him in that dumb court yard. “I had to do what I needed to do.”
“You are playing with powers that are far beyond you, Dawn. You don’t know the kind of man Jason Black is!”
“He has told me more about myself in the few short hours I was with him than either of you.” I snapped. My aunt flinched in my peripheral vision and a part of me almost felt bad for snapping. Almost. “I need answers. Why was I marked? Why can’t I refuse him? What do I stand to gain in all of this? Can you at least tell me that?!”
Silence.
Then I turned to my aunt. “What’s going on?”
“Sweetie, I wish I had more answers for you. I really do.”
“How could he mark me as a baby? He doesn’t seem that much older than me…” I p
