ANOKAI’S POV
The ceremony dissolved into conversations and group meetings afterwards. After the marking ritual, Rissa had arrived to help me change into something simpler than the ball gown I was wearing. I would have loved to just retire for the night and forget this, but Basil had been with us, letting me know that the alphas wanted me back inside after the change.
I entered the room, picked up a glass from a waiter, and downed its contents immediately. I could feel the eyes watching me, staring, judging, pointing, but all too afraid to come near me.
I didn’t blame them. Which woman in her right mind would give her life to the monsters of the Shadowcrest?
I rubbed the mark on my shoulders, one sat separately on my right shoulder, two on the same spot, and the last sat so far up my
