Marked by the forbidden Alpha
I thought you were gone she said into my hair, I thought you had left us,
I would never leave you I said, you know I would never,
She pulled back and looked at my face and her eyes were wet and she touched my cheek with one hand the way she had when I was small and said I know, I know that, and then she pulled me back in and I let her,
We sat in the kitchen for hours,
I told them everything, properly this time, all of it, the cell and Cole and Wren and the assembly and Daxton and Lyra and the archery hall and the goodbye at the gate and the ambush in the forest, and I watched their faces,
Danny's jaw tightened at the ambush, Caroline's eyes went wide at the archery hall, and through all of i