Second Chance-In the mist Book 1 novel Chapter 95

"You marked her... okay? And isn't that supposed to be a good thing? Something you were supposed to do?" he looked even more confused, rubbing his barely grown beard. 

The way he looked at things was the obvious way, but from my perspective, I fucked those things up. I narrowed my eyes and felt them catch fire. "Okay, I take it that not everything went smoothly..." Declan continued, but in a more cautious tone. 

"Everything went so wrong, Declan!" I snapped, slamming my fist into the table, watching the coffee cups shake. Already, a few curious eyes had turned to us.

"Calm down or you'll attract attention and you don't want that. Take a deep breath and tell me all about it." 

I took Declan's advice, and it was only after a few good minutes that I got my thoughts in order to be able to recount perhaps one of the worst mistakes of my life. "I hate this wolf inside me sometimes, man. He does things that aren't right and pushes away people he should keep close" I started a little more calmly but not enough to have a steady tone. "Sometimes I wish my father had let me die and not turned me." 

"Hey, Dominic, don't talk nonsense. Your father did what he thought best. More than that, put yourself in his place. Would you have let your son die?" Maybe at this point Declan was the rational one. 

"I know what you mean, but that's how I feel sometimes. Now I understand why my mother always resisted. I miss her so much..." 

"Is it that bad what happened?" insisted Declan, seeing that I didn't have the courage to talk. I had to face my fears, after all.

"It's not that I marked Rebecca, it's how I marked her. We had a terrible fight," I said with a heavy heart. Declan's face suddenly tensed.

"What do you mean, you had a fight? Why?" It was hard for me to reproduce what had happened, but Declan was my best friend and I needed him around. 

"If you had joined me at the premiere of my film, you would have agreed with me. At some point, while talking to fellow actors, I realized Rebecca was gone. I thought maybe she'd gone out for a breath of air and I went looking for her. I looked everywhere and found her in a hidden place in the company of that jerk Logan," I snorted, looking for comprehension.

"Logan? You mean the actor who seems to know Rebecca?" 

"Exactly him. I haven't liked the guy since their first date, but every time Rebecca tells me he's a friend of hers." 

"But maybe he really is" Declan jumped to his defense, to my surprise.

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