~ Alpha Bastian's POV ~
After walking Mark to the kitchen to eat his pain away from rejecting his mate, I decided to walk him up to the beta floor and to his room to make sure he would be okay. It took a while of asking him if he was okay before I felt like he was being sincere. Although he was the one who made the original rejection, it still affected him hard and I needed to make sure that my beta is okay after something of this caliber.
"Are you absolutely sure you're fine if I leave you here?" I asked him after we reached his suite's doorway.
"Yes, I am. It hurts, I won't lie, but it would hurt more if your mother realizes how long you've been gone and comes up here after us both because of it," Mark said with a smile that didn't quite reach his eyes. "You should get back to the ba
