Did Serena mark him at all?
Elara had seen the evidence. She had walked into Gavriel's quarters and found Serena on top of him, hand bleeding, the mark fresh and glowing on his shoulder. The scene was unambiguous. The mark was real. The glow was active. The blood was Serena's.
Unless it wasn't Serena's mark. Unless someone else had marked him and the timing was coincidental and the position Elara had found them in was contextually misleading.
But the mark was glowing gold, which usually meant Serena. Active meant bonded. Bonded meant pain transmission. Pain transmission meant Gavriel should be on the ground right now bleeding from his nose and clutching his ribs.
He was standing with his arms crossed looking mildly constipated.
