Orrin

Goddess, the sickening feeling in my stomach, thinking that Lorcan could have gotten Gianna pregnant, wouldn’t go away. It wouldn’t because I knew once the baby was born, I’d see the proof marked on the child’s skull behind their ear.

Figure 8 is the mark of rape, no one but a handful of people know how this came to be.

Many years ago, my grandfather, a kind man, sought to punish those who would take what did not belong to them. My grandfather had many abilities, even the use of magic, gifted to him by a witch upon his fourteenth birthday.

Having found his mate, my grandmother, he realised that she’d been raped mere days before meeting him. She was already pregnant and feared my grandfather wouldn’t want to mate with a pregnant rape victim. She was wrong, and they fell in love quickly.

Before the