Gabe drove in silence, anger and shock pulsing through him in equal measures. He knew exactly what Drake was thinking, waves of sympathy, guilt and disapproval radiated from him. Gabe understood the sympathy even if it grated against his pride, the love between him and Victoria had been legendary....until his first change had come upon him, things had changed as much as he had. Her family had been horrified...no more than he himself had been..his form an amalgamation between a horror and beauty that no one in either shifter community would accept. Her family had immediately refused the marriage contract between them. He had begged them not to tell her the reason and to give him the chance to break things off on his terms, so she would never know how he came to exist...his heart broke as tears rolled down her face when he told her he could go through with the wedding..that he didn't love her....all lies. He turned away from her...18 years old and vowed she would never know the horror he had been ...that now was now broken.