Anthony's POV
It hurt me what I was doing to Mariam, but I considered it a necessary evil.
First of all, it was her who kept hanging out with other guys. First, it was with Leander. She preferred to go with him, in his car, rather than in one of the buses my dad rented to take the boys to our pack. Then she sat with that same nerd who challenged me in the dance battle.
How could I not make her suffer a little after that, and make her miss me.
But aside from those jealousies, which might be unjustified since we were mates, we needed to prepare ourselves for the inevitable: separating forever.
She still held onto the hope that it was all just a bunch of coincidences with no connection to tie them together. Even when she suggested the DNA test, I saw in her eyes that she didn’t want to b
