The False Goodbye

Maverick’s POV

For the rest of the night, the Sage’s words kept ringing in my head. ‘By marking her!’

As much as I hated seeing that fake mark on her, I just couldn’t mark her. That would be the height of it all, and it was never part of the plan. Marking her would mean forever, I can’t do that.

My mind suddenly drifted to the moment when I had opened her mail— we both have separate lives to live