Kieran
I felt good after marking my mates yesterday. I feel complete. The hollow, empty feeling that had been a consistent reminder of my failed mating was gone. And now, I feel like I belong to something special and with good people. I cannot say that I am fully healed. There are spurts of fear that seed suspicion that I combated this morning, but, for today, I don't feel anything except inexplicable happiness. It is what helped me to fight back the thoughts that would taint everything good about marking Jake, Ted, and Ramsey.
I don't think I would be able to sit on the sofa in Marabelle's sitting room and listen to her list off the names of the extended family. I know I will be wondering about who my mates are going to let harm me. I don't have that thought and it feels refres
