Chapter 62

Tatum-

Waking up with Brook sprawled out over me had caught me off guard. In all these years since Leslie, sleeping in the same bed with someone had been completely forbidden. It had been my one unbreakable rule.

Yet here I was, in Brook’s bed while she slept. I had stayed up long past her falling asleep and I had every intention of getting out of bed. I had never planned to sleepover. Even if I now knew she was my second chance mate, it changed nothing. I still couldn’t let her get too close to me.

I realized last night when she asked to help me avenge Leslie, that I couldn’t risk losing her like I did Leslie. I was still feeling like my best option was to reject her and save her from me. Lying here though, there was nowhere else I would rather be. How was it that just in four short months, she has managed to warm herself into my heart?

What I needed to do was get as far away from her as possible. I didn’t want to reject her, but