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.

He tries to fight, too, but he is maimed. They aim to kill, and young Day seems to realize this as he fights back, managing to get one gun and points it at the guards, who all back up. 


He shoots once in the air, and they get away from Travis, but still.


"Go, run, I will find you," Travis tells him, trying to stand still, but his wounds, one gun's hot shot has pierced through his side, and the other on his shoulder.


"No," Days' trails of tears are evident even from afar. "I am not leaving you, I am not!"


"I love you, I love you so much, my baby. But you must run. I will find you."


"I can't leave you," young Day is trembling, the gun loosening in his hold. The guards are inching closer. But Travis can see them.


"Please, baby. Trust me, okay? I will find you. I will, I promise."


Chapter 111 - YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER