Julia's POV
The moment his fangs pierced my skin, my entire world stopped. My body went rigid, eyes stretched wide, heart pounding so violently I thought it might burst from the overwhelming rush of confusion, terror, and something else I couldn't name flooding through me. It wasn't just the sharp pain of his bite that shocked me. It was the searing heat that followed, this strange burning sensation spreading through my flesh where his mouth touched me, like something deep inside had been claimed forever, and there was no undoing what just happened because I understood exactly what this meant.
He had marked me.
Gavin had actually marked me.
