KAEL POV
For five months, I had hungered for this human, a hunger I had never once felt before in my life. Though I had realized, too late, that in my madness during that cursed rut I had attacked her and ravaged her like the animal I truly was, then gone ahead and marked her as my mate without a single thought for the consequences. I should have known better. How could I not? My drink had been spiked during the Lunaria festival, some rival’s poison slipped into my cup sending me into a full berserk state. I left the palace in a haze of blood and fury, tearing through the city, leaving c*****e and havoc in my wake until her team finally found me, subdued me, and dragged me back.
Of course, once I returned to the palace, I knew exactly who was responsible. The same factions who never want
