Conner POV
Conner felt himself get shoved almost violently to the back of his own mind as Atlas surged forward to tell Eliza she was never going to be able to get away from him. Knew she was looking right at Atlas and couldn’t do anything at all about it. She had just told him she didn’t want to be here, that they’d never have to see her again, and Atlas was more than annoyed.
She was his as far as he was concerned and when he surged forward to take control Conner knew it was going to be bad, he was yelling at his beast to calm down. That she was just upset, she’d not once tried to leave since they’d brought her back, that she was just lashing out verbally. But he knew Atlas didn’t care. The moment his beast kissed her while he was in human form, Conner knew it was too late, Atlas was ab
