**Avery**
This all still feels like a dream. Did I once fantasize about what it would be like to be alone with The Trio? Yes, as had most of the females in our tribe, and I am sure countless others, too. But when they kept constantly tormenting me, I began to see their ugliness. I need to hear them say it, so I stop walking and turn to them, “Are you only being nice to me because you think that I am your mate?”
Conner looks at me with one of his eyes and one of Caleb’s, “Avery, I never wanted to do half of the things to you that we have done. I felt bad leaving you in that forest, and that's why I barely interacted with you after that day. Before our Grand Ceremony, I was serious about wanting to be your friend. I was raised to be a better man than I have been. I have been nice to you be
