The Shared Agony

DRAVEN'S POV

I stared into her eyes, my mind reeling as the glowing Red Crescent Moon mate mark burned furiously at the base of Calliope’s delicate neck. It mocked me with its very existence. The ambient magic radiating from the brand singed the air, a visible testament to a bond I did not understand. My mind scrambled for a rational explanation. Did she have another mate? Was she marked by someo