BETA MATTHEW POV
I tossed and turned in my bed that night. It wasn’t just the pain in my chest; it was everything. I wasn’t a guy who could take on this much all at once, but with Ryan AWOL and Britt in denial, my mother now dead, and Kane locked up, I needed a mental check-out.
The most recent events of the last rites ceremony wouldn’t allow me any rest. The wounds were closed up, but it was the power of the Goddess. I knew why she would never allow these pains to ease up. These burns, this branding, were a call-out to us all. She saw what we did that day. She saw. A tremor worked through my body.
My father was right.
This was all because of what we did to CC that afternoon at the warehouse.
I was being marked for death. The Goddess had made a statement in front of the entire pack. S
