Madeline POV
It was nearly lunchtime and Arius still hadn’t returned. I couldn’t sleep last night knowing he wasn’t just down the hall and I hated how much my body and my mind craved him. This mate bond s**t was annoying as hell. I kept trying to remind myself that he was my enemy. That he was Lucius’ son. But before long, images of him from the last few days entered my mind and my need grew.
‘Maybe he is not who we thought he was?’ Nina spoke to me in my mind. She had needed some time to get over the fact her mate did not have a wolf and was in fact a vampire-warlock hybrid, but after a week or so, she was fully onboard. I, however, was not.
‘Nina, you saw how he was yesterday. He looked like pure evil. How can you say he is not?’
‘Because he has started to show us a different side to
