“You do know that we have to talk about this sooner or later," he said as we left the baggage claim area. We had been in English air for less than ten minutes and Craig was already hounding me. After what had happened at my aunt's house, I had told both of them that I needed space. I needed to breathe and to figure a few things out in my head. But that had not stopped Craig from pressing me. He had me the entire plane ride back to the campus. I had to put my headphones on to drown out his voice before he finally got the memo and now, here he was again. I had not forgiven him in his role to play in all of this. He knew who I was and he didn't tell me. I knew that the blame was not on him alone. In fact, if I was being entirely honest, he had but a small spec of blame to bear. But somehow, my heart could not shake the betrayal. I grabbed my bag off the carousel and started to exit. As soon as I broke through to where all the waiting people were to pick up passengers, I was hi

*Craig*The girl had my head in a tailspin. She had stormed into my room like a woman on a mission. I was giving her the space she had asked for but it had been killing me knowing that she was so close to me but I couldn’t go to her. I hated that she was hurting right now. I wanted to tell her everything but I didn’t know if she was ready to hear it all. How could I tell the woman I was falling for that she was my natural enemy? I was trained to hate her people from the moment I was born. And now, come to find that my sworn new way was likely my mate.The cold water beat down on my skin as I tried to wash away the last interaction I had with Dawn. I shouldn’t have told her anything. She was better off not knowing.****The Previous Night*She started trying to get the answers I knew she rightfully deserved. “Tell me, Craig. You told me that I could come to you whenever I needed you. And here I am, in dire need of you. So, tell me why you aren't bein

*Craig*I hated being told what to do. I was no one’s servant, but I knew that being here, I needed to know to play smart and not bite back too much. Dawn's birthday was in a few months and then I would know for sure—but the crisis at hand was Jason. He wanted her but it would be over my dead body that he got to her. She was mine. “You need to keep your head, you idiot,” Jared scolded me.I growled. “Don’t call me an idiot.”“I will call you an idiot as long as you act like one and you are currently acting like the biggest idiot of them all. Why are you going to ruffle Edgar’s feathers when you are on your own there?”“I wasn’t ruffling anyone’s feathers. He is the one who came at me first.”My best friend sighed on the other side of the line. “Listen to me. I get that you feel that she is your mate, but you—”“I know that she is my mate,” I snarled.“But you can’t be certain,” he finished.“Well I am. I feel it. I know it.” At least I believed I did, but every

There was no way that I was missing Craig. There was no way. But I couldn't deny the fact that his absence was felt. I had finished my heart and the first person I had wanted to show was him. But he wasn’t there. I was so tempted to text him a few times but I knew that texting him was a bad idea. No matter how much I wanted to, I needed to remember what he had done. There was no way that I could trust him fully. Especially after all that he had done and hidden from me. I let out a loud groan and moved down the line to get my lunch. For the past few days, I was in my head a lot. I was wracking my brain trying to figure out a way forward from this. I was nowhere near finding out how to break this bond that I share with Jason. All I knew was what I had learned from that dream. I hadn’t had a dream like it since. Now, my head was swriling trying to remember the faces that I saw. I had flipped though text after text in the encyclopaedias, but nothing came up. I was both frust

*Dawn*I stared up at the ceiling completely lost in thought. Today was the first time in a long time I felt like I could breathe and then it was snatched away. I just wanted to have a normal life. I just wanted to go back to the way that things used to be. I didn’t want the stress or the horror of this wolf stuff. I wanted to cry it out but I had cried so much in the last two weeks, I had nothing left inside me. I was running on empty. The more books I read, the more questions I had. I worried about the first shift. I worried how I would deal with Jason, and Craig as well. I was still mad at him but for some reason, my heart was calling to him. I wanted him here and not wherever he was.I rolled over in my bed trying to calm my mind so I could get some sleep but I had been tossing and turning for hours and I knew that sleep was not going to come. Candice was out again in the town with her friends while I was here. I knew that I could just change and meet her in the tow