Ch. 13

Charlie’s POV

Nathan wanted to mark me. Me. The girl from an enemy pack who had nothing to offer but some mind-mangling head trauma and a small side of half-truths I’d yet to reveal. It was almost unbelievable and way too good to be true.

I told him I needed time to trust his feelings for me were real and that was partially true. A man like Nathan didn’t do anything he didn’t want to do, bond or not. But my battered heart still lurched to a halt at the thought he’d choose me when women like Mallory were his usual class, far above my own.

But more than any of that, I couldn’t let him bite me without telling him my whole truth. Every last excruciating, despicable detail. I might have done a lot I wasn’t proud of in my life, but even I wasn’t disgusting enough to take Nathan’s future from him without him knowing exactly who he was bonding with.

So while I genuinely was looking forward to all the ways he wanted to show me how much he wanted me, something I’d never once been in my