EMMA “Emma, listen to me.” Zyk sat close to me on the bed. I didn’t want to listen to him anymore, he officially became the person I loathed most in the whole world. How could someone call you their mate and hurt you this bad? Just how? He had hurt me so many times but what he did to me today hurt more than all of the hurts put together. When I was starting to love and trust him. My father was never wrong, my kind aren’t trustworthy. He sat closer, trying to touch me but I pulled my hand away. I hated that his touch still sent tingles through my body, it irked me the way my body responded to his and I wished I could pull my skin out from my body so I wouldn’t feel what I was feeling right now. “Emma, listen to me.” he said again, this time, more fiercely, “I have marked you already, a

