Mark's POV

I can't explain why I feel the way I do, I never get to feel this way about anyone. Just can't explain why I feel this way about leaving Rissa.

She was just a stranger as far as I could remember even though it was as far back as last night.

I wasn’t just proud of what I did.

I never meant to leave her like that. That was nothing close to a Lycan King that I am.

But here was me running.

After that night—after tasting the pain behind her kisses, the fire laced with sorrow—I ...