~One Week Later~
~KANE~
"You're looking much better," Dane points out to me as he hands me a beer. "They beat you up pretty badly."
"Can't say I didn't deserve it," I say to him as I take a sip.
After Maya and her family left, everything I owned was burnt to the ground; nothing was left from the fire. It took me days to heal from the deep wounds they'd left on my body. Nothing compared to the wound Maya left in my heart, however. She knew what she was doing when she marked me and when she let me mark her. She knew that it would f*****g tear me apart to watch her leave. And that's precisely what I did that day; I watched her walk away from me and it f*****g burned.
She doesn't know this, but I tried to follow her, I tried to reach her. I forced myself off the ground that day and too
