Landon's POV
Unloved. Unwanted. Worthless. Fenris had hammered those words into me during our altercations after the scandal of I and Adrian broke out. So deep they had carved themselves into my bones. Words I could not scrub off no matter how far I ran, even now, stumbling far out of the hotel room we had been sharing.
Tears clouded my eyes as I walked with no direction, no destination, no one to run to. No shoulder to lean on. No refuge to whisper my pain to.
"Adrian doesn't love you. Your family doesn't. Nobody loves you here, can't you see that?" The words echoed like a war chant in my skull. They rose and fell like a tide, drowning me in the same message, that no one wanted me, that no one wished me well except him. That Fenris was the only one who would treat me right, the only one who didn't want to take advantage of me.
