Jaiden Pov
I couldn’t help the tears flowing down my cheeks as she stilled in my arms, just as I heard feet running towards me from both directions. I honestly...I didn’t care who it was. I couldn’t feel her anymore, the link inside me. I lifted my hand from her face and touched my neck, feeling the grove of the scar, my mark from her. I couldn’t mark her, I couldn’t heal her, and in the end, I couldn’t save her. I was worthless. And they wanted me to believe I was a Protector? What kind of Protector lets their mate die? I was nothing, and the sadness was taking over me, drowning me in the misery.
“Jaiden! What the hell!?” I heard Axel’s voice on the right side of me call out distantly.
“Lexi! Is she alright?” Colette called out from the left side of me. I stared at Lexi’s face, the n
