Falling for my bully's boyfriend
"I didn't want to say it, even just inside my own head, because saying it made it real and real things had consequences.
But it was becoming harder to pretend.
Every time he appeared, every time he put himself between me and something that could hurt me, every time he looked at me across a room like I was the only thing in it worth looking at, something in me responded to it. The bond, I told myself. It's just the bond.
But I had read enough about mate bonds in biology class to know that while the bond amplified what was there, it couldn't create something from nothing. You couldn't be pulled toward someone you felt absolutely nothing for.
Which meant some part of me had already noticed him