Remington's POV-
He didn't say we, he said I. Someone else may not have caught it, but I sure as hell did. He didn't want me to go with him. No, Renatus didn't want me to go home. I had thought I was prepared to face the possibility of Renatus rejecting our mating, but hearing it from Raclaus brought all of the insecurities and hurt the forest had soothed away right back. Tears pricked the back of my eyes but I held them back. I was used to being rejected, unwanted even, and I wouldn't let him know how much it hurt. I never, and I mean never, should have gone to the f*****g castle. I never should have let Raclaus mark me, or let myself mark him. I stood, with what little dignity I had, and turned to go back to the camp. I dropped my head and whispered, so quietly I was not sure he'd even
