OCEANA
I collapsed onto my bed, my body heaving with sobs, and I did not bother to take off my costume, even though it would expose me if anyone walked in. I was too overwhelmed, my heart aching with deep, relentless sorrow. I hated how I left Lykos. I knew he was worried, thinking he had done something wrong, but I became overwhelmed with emotion the moment the gravity of what he had done sank in.
He had marked me. He claimed me as his. And yet, I hadn’t even told him half of my haunting reality. It was like it only hit me then that not only did I have to hurt and destroy someone I deeply cared for—someone who had waited his whole life for me. But I also had to turn my family’s life upside down.
No mermaid had ever mated with a surface dweller. How was I supposed to persuade my family
