STELLA
I try to struggle but the piercing pain binds my body in Cain’s hands. I feel blood dripping down my neck when I realise that he has marked me. Just like that... If I ever had any chance with Xavier, it’s gone now… It’s funny how in a moment like this, he is all I can think of. Pages of the books I have read back at his pack surface in my memory – when someone is marked, they are bonded forever, and this bond cannot be broken.
“Breath, baby, breath,” Cain licks the blood from my wound, but it doesn’t stop flowing, “s**t, why isn’t it healing?”
“I am not a werewolf; I don’t heal quickly,” I manage to say, tears rolling down my cheeks uncontrollably, while I feel like I am slipping away.
“Babe!” he shouts when my eyes start closing again, “Baby, stay with me! Somebody call Alex t
