Marcel’s POV Given Imelda’s dark obsession with castration, I’m happy to report that I am still intact. Physically anyway. The verbal dressing down she gave me was brutal, and though I deign to admit it, she is right. If you play with fire, you should expect to be burned. I didn’t see it, even as it happened, but when the witch pointed out the glaringly obvious it hit me, hard. Somehow, unbeknownst to me, I have bonded with Liberty. I don’t know how or even when it began. Vampyres don’t bond, not like wolves, the thought is absurd, but deep down I know it to be true. How could I have allowed this to happen? Watch from a distance. That is what I have always done and what I intended to do here. Ever since being at Pine Lake, living as part of the pack, spending every day near her, I have felt humanity slowly taking hold of me. The feelings I thought I had mastered centuries ago, have well and truly come back to bite me. “There is no reason anyone needs to know. I have it under control
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