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here, looking at me like I'm suppos

do

glancing at Cali for so

he just say mate? Like... soul

locked on mine. "I know this soun

ack. "I don't know what you think is hap

omething almost hurt but he schools his

right. I

don't

res, the whispers. Jon Drago can take his weird Aus

my life to come and st

tty quickly thankfully because I'm alr

break and Cali and I he

atch him watching me from across the cafeteria

up, calls you his mate, and now he's been staring at you like a lo

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y n

's how horror

rs. "Or rom

ng my tray awa

Try not to get kidnapped by

t of campus. The air is crisp, autumn sneaking into th

crash int

a

annoyed senior to cuss me out. Bu

ing blue eyes. Pa

m before, always sitting alone, always w

rest of my freshman year. It got annoying real quick. Like, girls, I know this man

k, but right now, he's staring at me li

ue eyes nar

awkwardly. "Didn't

ad tilting slightly, like he's studying something invisible. His e

lmost to himself. "T

les. "What's

sn't a

an I can react, gripping my wrist. Not

a low, tense

at

ot to be k

d away, my pu

l is wrong wit

e at me or something. He doesn't. He just stand

wrist where his fingers had been. It still

me, and I follow it, only to see Jon

fant

ns. He takes a s

r," he says, voice

ink. Instead, his lips curl into something between

nse. "This isn't y

that's h

joined the school today and Arc has bee

calculating in his stare. Then, slowly, too

k before turning and disappearing ar

ply. "What th

is expression still

rst, you call me your mate out of nowhere, and n

his hair, exhaling. "It

what i

e he's debating ho

Spit it out, Drago

't know it yet, but Arc and I, our kind, we can s

eyes. "A ch

een eyes burning. "

nd a shiver

ys it... it doesn't s

g but I'm definitely ju