DawnI’d watched Marcus for an hour from my perch in the tree before making my decision. He’d been playing ball with Michael and the other shifters and then he’d done something amazing—he’d talked Michael out of his change.
Had I been in human form, I would have cried proud tears. For a man who’d been scared to death that he needed to be a father, he was certainly a natural. I’d watched him snuggle with his son until the shaking stopped. And then I watched him comfort Sellah, who seemed to be at the end of her rope. Jealously had taken hold, but for only a moment. Because I knew, that no matter what life threw at us, Marcus loved me and had chosen me.
And that’s why the decision to leave cut right through my soul.
I cried the entire way on our private jet from Fairbanks to Lexington. And
