Elizabeth POV I haven’t seen Xander anymore. Izaiah explained why he was taking a step back. I didn’t know what to say. Why couldn’t he say it to me? Is he really breaking up with me through Izaiah? Maybe I shouldn’t have seen it that way, but I thought we wanted to try this three-way thing. I knew he had shut me out. I couldn’t even sense his emotions anymore. We never completed the marking. Soon his mark would fade and become a scar. A story of what could have been. With every, not so subtle, hint Aurora gave I really thought we would all be together. Maybe someday it would happen. Is it bad for me to have hope? Izaiah has been amazing, but I knew Ahimoth was getting restless. As if he didn’t want to wait anymore. It was hard to be apart, even if it was an hour. The meeting of the Alp

