KADE
I couldn't mark her.
Damon was staring at me like I had lost my mind and maybe I had, but I couldn't do it, not tonight, not with everything sitting inside my chest the way it was. I looked at his face and I knew he deserved an explanation and I gave him the only one I could get out of my mouth right now. "My wolf isn't stable," I said. "Leave it alone."
He looked at me for a long moment. "That's your excuse?"
"That's what I said."
He didn't believe me. I could see it in the way his jaw sat, that flat, skeptical look he'd had since we were seventeen and I was lying to his face about something he already knew the truth of. But he didn't push it. He exhaled through his nose and looked away and the subject closed.
It was a lie. A big, ugly, embarrassing lie and every part of me kne
