Parker
He was marked and mated to Carina now, something he’d done to get over the pain he and Vex were still suffering from. Belladonna’s rejection just would not leave them. It hadn’t exactly been the right way to do it, and he knew that, but Carina had wanted to be marked and mated by him anyway.
So, he and Vex had allowed it, she was their actual Goddess-Gifted, and they were both hoping that it would obliterate the pain of that rejection. Stop them feeling like they were gutted from the inside out.
His meeting of Carina should have made them happy and wanted nothing more than reject his Chosen Mate. But it had not, laying in his bed all night, knowing that she wasn’t across the hall, wasn’t even inside the pack, bothered him greatly.
Carina smelled nothing like Belladonna, who ha
