11 Aurora
“So how’s everything with Levi now? Better? You sent that text message?” Nina asked as we walked along the private beach attached to my parent’s mansion, digging our bare feet in the wet sand as the gentle waves of the tide hit our feet.
“Not great. We’re fighting again.” I said before bending down to pick up the shells that the sweeping tides had swept onto the beach.
I sighed and said, “And he told me he wasn’t my true mate again.”
“Really?” Nina asked thoughtfully.
“I tried to ask for . . . again but he refused again,” I said, staring at the shell I was holding.
Nina grabbed my hand and said, “Well, it doesn’t matter what he thinks. I’m sure other people like you.”
I tried to shrug nonchalantly. “Probably not. Even Ezra turned out to be with me just for my background
