I paused. I remembered my first day when Maximus ran me over outside of the admissions building. Then I remembered when he stormed over to my room and grabbed me. Both times, there was this burning, warm sensation that shocked me to
my core.
Electricty
I felt the color drain from my face. He couldn’t be, could he?
I refused to entertain that thought
“Zora?” my mother said into the phone. “Did you feel anything like that?”
“No,” I said quickly. “Sorry. I was just trying to remember if anything like that happened with anyone. It didn’t”
“Okay,” Victoria sounded like she knew I was lying. “Well just remember the four candidates I presented to you. high likelihood one of them could be your fated mate.”
There’s a
I swallowed thickly. This wasn’t helping,
“Right,” I said. “Well I think romance is the last thing on my list right now. I need someone to catch me up to speed”
ou mean?” Victoria said through the phone.
“What do you
I sighed. “These people have been wolves for years,” I said. “I’ve known I was a wolf for six months, I need to be caught up on combat, lore, all of it.”
“I see,” Victoria said. “And Mr. Wolfham isn’t a good option for this?”
I fidgeting and saw Lunerly eyeing me down from next to me. I refused to meet his gaze. “No,” I said softly into the phone.
Victoria hummed “Hand the phone back the Valentin please,”
I handed it back without a word Lunerly put the phone back to his ear. “Yes?” he said. I could hear Victoria talking through the line. But it was far too muffled for me to understand it. Lunerly hummed a few times before saying goodbye and pocketing his phone
He stood up and began to check on the dressings around my arms. He slowly peeled them off and sighed.
“These should be healed already,” he said softly, poking at the angry red lines on my arm. I hissed when he did. His eyes
wounds. snapped up to mine with a worry in them. He jerked back down and continued redressing my
“You’re far too fragile to be this reckless,” he whispered. I tried to ignore the tender way he was wrapping the bandages around my arm. When he finally moved to the cut on my cheek, I found my voice again.
“So teach me,” I said under my breath. I knew he heard it when his hands stilled. Then he gently removed the bandage and replaced it with a new one. The whole time I watched him.
