POV: Marcus
Elena. She was so beautiful. Her very name meant light itself. I had loved her since the day I first met her, ten years ago. We were both still kids then — I was eight, and she was only four.
She was the most beautiful person I had ever known. I remembered falling and hurting my knee while playing outside. She came up to me, kissed it, and told me it would all be okay. I knew right then that the Moon Goddess had made her for me.
I tried to make sure I was in her life as much as possible after that. She and my sister Jen became close, and I loved it. My sister knew how I felt about her. But I had to keep my thoughts to myself. As the beta of the pack, certain things were not a good look.
I preferred to leave the whoring around to David. That was his nature, not mine.
I had
