~Marcus~
My head throbbed as I stood at the floor-to-ceiling windows of my private quarters at TechNova's San Juan Island compound. Rain lashed against the glass, mirroring the storm raging inside my skull. I pressed my fingertips against my temples, where silver filaments pulsed beneath my skin like molten lightning.
Three days since the Stone pack's failed rescue attempt. Three days since Elara Winters demonstrated power none of us had anticipated. Three days of increasingly unbearable pain.
I wouldn't tell Damon. Couldn't. Not when we were so close.
The migraine intensified, and I squeezed my eyes shut as silver light leaked from beneath my eyelids. When I opened them again, my reflection in the window showed the telltale luminescence spreading through the veins of my face like a di
