Before the Mark

I nodded. I knew it all too well. There was nothing about that world that made me happy either, but it was my duty to step up should anything happen.

Still, his happiness was important to me, and I had to consider how I would live if, after I marked him, I had to let him go so he could be happy or if he decided to leave me. It would destroy me, completely shatter me.

We would have to be sure of ou