Andrei POV
“Sage, please wait,” I called out to her as she took off, though I was surprised that she was actually going home to the pack house instead of taking off for the forest. When I first brought her outside, I was a little worried she would run, and she looked like she would when I brought her closer to the forest.
I catch up to her, easily falling in line with her. “Look, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to freak you out,” I tell her, reaching for her hand and am surprised when she doesn’t pull away.
“Why are you apologizing? I marked you not the other way around,” she says, her cheeks turning red. Was she embarrassed or angry, both? Sometimes, it was so hard to tell with her; she was so hot one minute and then so cold the next. I knew it wasn’t her fault, and if roles were reversed, I
