46: Mating gifts

Danika's heart skipped a beat when her eyes met with Damien's who was walking out of the hallway of his wing.

Her gaze lingered on him for a split second like his own did too, before she looked away.

She did not know what to believe. That he knew what was to happen to her at the border?

But he wasn't aware she had been sent. It was just that she felt odd returning to find out that he was already mated to someone. Someone he chose, marked and made his Luna. Her of all people.

It wasn't a coincidence that the tournament didn't hold. Or of the soldiers who came to save her while she was in the bushes.

He knew about it, or perhaps he didn't and found out late which made him send the soldiers after her. But whichever it was, he owed her a conversation. An apology if he was not bigger than one.