His neck burns. The spot where his mating mark should be burns the closer Travis got. He is shaking, aching all over, and he knows Travis’ touch would soothe him.
But he is hurt and bleeding. He doesn’t want to repeat his life all over again with the alpha. Not when it led him to lose everything.
And everything was him, Travis. Someone who once awakened him has done it again. 
His fated mate. 
Things have changed. He is a different person now.
But his stupid omega is making a fool out of him by reacting in all the worst ways.
“Don’t,” Day holds his hand out, heart racing. He doesn’t know why this was happening. His body and mind are clashing again, like they always do whenever they do this. “I am not some weak omega who is going to present to you simply because you were once mated to me. I am not going to submit to you. You are not my alpha.”
Gods, how he wishes he could give in just this once. He can already feel the slick trickling down his thighs.
Soiling his jeans.
And going by the way Travis’ pheromones flare, nose twitching, he knows the alpha can smell he is losing the battle.
…
Day can find nothing wrong with his life.
He is now enrolled in university, a whole new life away from his cage, finally growing up and discovering who he is.
Then crosses paths with Travis.
 The alpha who makes him feel like he is being born and dying all at the same time. A thread is pulled every time he locks eyes with him, talks with him ... feels him near him. 
Every time his scent wraps his body like the softest cloud.
With each tug, the life that has been carefully woven and fed to him starts to fall apart. Day realizes he isn’t who he has been told he is, and he was someone different once.
Something else, but it was all taken away.
Travis was taken away, too.
All the scars unravel themselves on his bones, and he is once again breaking apart.

"I'm not going to hide him." Travis turns around and faces his father. "I have thought of all the ways I can make sure that I keep Day safe, and nothing is good enough. He is already my weakness, but he is also my strength."


"Which means every single enemy you have will know and might use him."


"I know," he swallows his drink, throat bobbing up and down. "But there is no world I want to hide Day. He wouldn't even want it himself."


"She is going to know when I introduce Day to my family, as my boyfriend," he knocks every drop back down his throat and looks at the empty glass. "To stop all the madness about getting me to be mated and pup talk."


Michael nods as he nurses his drink, looking at his son. He is proud of him.


Seeing him finally looking alive, happy, life seeping back to his eyes … he has to thank Day and protect that boy because of his son.


Chapter 99 - WON'T DO THAT