Evan's POV
I don't go to second period.
I get as far as the stairwell at the end of the science wing, the one nobody uses because it only goes up to the storage floor, and I sit down on the bottom step and put my head in my hands and try to breathe like a person.
She touched my arm.
That's all. She grabbed my sleeve the way anyone grabs a sleeve, to stop me walking off, a completely ordinary thing, and the bond went off in my chest like a flare. Not the low steady pull I've been living with since the boat. This was the whole thing, all at once, the tether snapping tight and every nerve I have lighting up at the point where her fingers met me, and for one second the entire school went silent and there was nothing in the world but her hand and the warmth of her and the wolf throwing hims
