116 The act

Nyx stared at Marcus as he finished what he'd been doing over the last two years. Her mother had been keeping tabs on her since she left the White Sands pack and was biding her time until they were to take Nyx back to the Hellhounds. She drummed her fingers against her thigh until she paused after Marcus placed a black ring on her knee. 

She looked up at him and smiled genuinely, "I can't believe you still have this." 

"Of course," Marcus replied, showing her his ring on the long-chain he'd always kept around his neck before he slipped it back under his shirt.