I woke up feeling like something was wrong.
It took me a moment to remember what day it was and when I did, the wrongness settled deeper into my chest and refused to leave.
Today was the day. Today Ella would go to Dark Stone and stand in front of some stranger and let him mark her as his and there was nothing I could do about it.
I lay in bed and stared at the ceiling, trying to breathe but my lungs felt tight and my heart felt heavy. My wolf paced restlessly inside me like he was trapped in a cage.
She was going to bond with someone else.
I had known it was coming for days now but knowing did not make it easier. If anything, it made everything worse because I had three days to think about it and three days to imagine what it would feel like when the bond snapped into place between
