“I’m just reading,” I answered, whipping a tear from my eye.
“Yes, I can see that, but why?” he said, moving closer.
“Stay away from me, please,” I said as I felt the mate bond come to the front of my mind. The closer he got, the stronger it got, and he knew that.
“Why?” he replied with a smile.
“You know why. Silas was pissed at me when I went back home after the last time.”
“Maybe you should have stayed where you belonged then,” he declared, taking another step and sitting down at the table with me. I figured it was in a public place so that we couldn’t do anything anyway. But then I noticed we were the only two people in the library.
I let out a huff; he was too close to me. I picked the book up and went to sit in one of the beanbag chairs laid about. Unfortunately, they were larg
