-Revenge-
I had never been gentle with anyone before, so I was surprised by my own actions as I stood there, gently wiping the mud from her eye. Just moments earlier, I had been seething with anger after Elena had drugged me, ready to kill her the moment I woke up.
But when I found her in the small stream, crying and hugging herself to stay warm, all that anger vanished. I realized this human was broken—unable even to manage something as simple as getting the mud off her face or out of the stream. She simply didn’t know how.
It pained me to think Marcus had reduced her to this. She was so fragile that I knew even yelling at her would be too much. I wondered why The Moon Goddess had chosen her as my mate and was even more surprised that I had been given one at all. A monster like me, wi
