‘I don’t know who you’re talking about, but I wasn’t thinking of her,’ I retorted, exposing myself in the process.
‘Anyway, she’s soon to be your stepsister. Unless Dad rejects her mother, it’s a done deal. And then, you’re her trainer. I hope you realize it’ll be unfair to the other students, because you’ll be biased as hell,’ he added, clearly trying to annoy me.
“I’m not even thinking about her. You’re the one who keeps bringing her up,” I said, trying to sound clever and flip the conversation back onto him.
‘Huh, ever since she saved you in that dream prison, you’ve been so infatuated with her. The minute you two held hands after crushing those flowers and felt those weird feelings, you started acting differently,’ Ye said, making me tilt my head in frustration, though I let him continue.
‘And then-you held her back while she rested her hands on your chest. Kaye, it was only a dream prison. You two were miserable and vulnerable. Don’t take those feelings seriously; they meant nothing,’ he stopped yapping to hear my response now.
What he didn’t realize was that, while running his mouth, he had answered one of my biggest questions. That’s when I started piecing things together.
‘How do you know that? How do you know such little details if you weren’t even there?’ I asked, my voice low but pointed.
I remembered the big hint he had given me after we returned-that Rune had silenced him in the dream prison. This was why the mate bond I felt with Helanie couldn’t have been true-because Ye had supposedly been asleep.
So how, then, did he know everything in such detail?
‘From your memory, duh! You know I can access your memory,’ he replied smugly, but I could tell he was scrambling.
‘But, Ye-remember you told me you didn’t feel the mate bond because you were asleep? You said Rune made me think I felt it?’ His silence was deafening, and I knew he realized I was catching on to him.
‘So? Why are we talking about this for now?’ he said hastily, clearly panicking.
‘You started it,’ I scoffed.
‘Ye, when I felt the mate bond with her, you were awake. It wasn’t until later that Rune arrived and declared you inactive,’ I said, my voice shaking as a painful sense of betrayal crept over me. That was the detail I had been missing all along.
‘Oh… I must have been mistaken then,’ he mumbled. But the guilt in his voice betrayed him, proving me right.
‘I can’t believe you did this to me. You lied to me about my mate bond? You used the dream prison to manipulate me, to lie to my face!’ My voice cracked, and I couldn’t begin to explain how torturous it was to realize that my own wolf had been dishonest with me.
But then again, what did I expect from Ye? He had always been this way-cunning, manipulative, and abnormal.
“Kaye!” Maximus snapped his fingers in front of my face to grab my attention. “Are you alright? You don’t look good.”
He gestured at my hands, which had started transforming. My nails were growing, turning into sharp claws, and my skin was changing color. I knew that if I didn’t get control of myself soon, my transition would begin-and that would be very, very bad.
“Hey, look at me,” Maximus said, cupping my face firmly in his hands. His voice was steady, commanding, and full of concern. “You need to calm down.”
As he held my gaze, he reached into his pocket and pulled out a small bottle of wolfsbane.
“Take a few sips,” he insisted, holding the bottle to my lips.
I obeyed, taking just one sip. The liquid burned my throat, its sharp bitterness bringing tears to my eyes. I didn’t let him see them, though-I couldn’t let him see why I was crying.
Helanie:
I woke up feeling even more nauseated than ever. I didn’t want to go to breakfast. The breakfast was served on the hostel’s ground floor, and I knew all the academy students would be there, ready to bother the juniors. So, I decided not to go into the hostel’s dining hall for breakfast.
“Where are you going?” Lucy asked, tugging on my sleeve to get my attention.
“I don’t want to eat here,” I whispered, making sure the students walking past me on their way to the hall didn’t hear me.
They would run to tell the bullies, and then the bullying would get worse once they realized how much it was bothering me.
“Then I’ll come with you,” she said.
“Girls! Come!” Gavin yelled from the big door, waving at both of us.
“Are you two going to talk about your differences?” I asked her, feeling bad for Gavin.
“Not now. I’m just pretending to be fine for now. I can’t forgive him for cheating on me and pushing me over the edge,” she said, her words making me strain to keep my reaction neutral. I wanted so badly to yell at her for taking things so far without any evidence, but I didn’t want to meddle in their relationship-or judge Lucy.
“Come on, have breakfast with us,” she urged, trying to pull me toward the door. But I politely declined her offer.
The reason wasn’t because she had slept with Lamar. It was because I needed to get rid of the test hidden in my sweater pocket. My hands were in my pockets, clutching the test tightly. It felt like a constant reminder every few seconds-I was pregnant.
“Lucy, is it okay if I take a walk and grab something to eat along the way?” I asked, hoping she wouldn’t press further. Her frown showed her confusion.
“Eat from trees?” She tried to joke, but it was obvious she didn’t understand where I could possibly go to eat on foot. It wasn’t like I could just stroll to a nearby park.
Actually, I really couldn’t. I’d done so yesterday, and now my legs were aching terribly.
“And it’s so cold and dark outside,” she continued, sounding concerned.
“It’s okay. Please go ahead and join him. I just want to be alone for a while,” I said, rushing to leave before they insisted on coming with me. I was debating on staying when I thought maybe Gavin would question her for the pain he must have felt last night but since he seemed fine, I decided to leave. I don’t think Lucy needed me for now.
Before she could say anything else, I had already turned around and started walking away.
I hugged my body defensively as I left the academy hostel in the dark. It was dangerous out there, but what was happening inside me felt far more threatening than anything lurking outside.
I walked all the way to the track, glancing around for any passing cars. Once I was certain there were none, I began hiking up the incline, sweat forming around the test I’d been holding tightly for over an hour.
When I reached the top of the mountain, far from the academy, I finally pulled the test out and stared at it. The red cross on the test with a broken heart I had drawn over it, made me take a deep breath.
I couldn’t help but wonder: If I had gotten pregnant under different circumstances-with someone I loved-would things have been different?
Would my reaction have been different?
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