PENELOPE POV
My phone would not stop buzzing.
Which was annoying, honestly, considering I had just found out the best guy ever had been mine all along, marked him in the middle of a thunderstorm, got marked back, survived a demonic facility, helped rescue pregnant women and newborns, and was currently trying very hard not to fall apart in the hallway of a hospital waiting for the scrutiny of my mother, my fathers, my aunt, the goddess of vengeance and her four overprotective mates which happen to be my uncles.
Delightful.
A girl deserved five minutes.
Maybe ten.
Maybe a full calendar year.
Liam stood beside me with his hand at the small of my back, thumb moving slowly over my shirt like he could not stop checking I was still there. Every time his fingers brushed my skin, the mark o
