Kael’s POV
Her vanilla-sweet mate scent still clung to my skin.
I’d showered twice in the academy’s male washroom. Scrubbed until my flesh burned. But it was still there.
This was my third time returning to this godforsaken bathroom, and I was losing my mind.
I glanced at my reflection in the wide mirror of the men's bathroom, only to see Diana's beautiful face staring back instead.
Her sparkling green eyes, her perfectly long blond hair, her soft lips…
“Mate’s lips will taste better than your favorite tea, right?” Zubby, my wolf, whispered in my head, making me swallow hard.
But I quickly shook the thought away. She was too weak for my liking.
“Twenty-two years,” I muttered to the moon goddess as if she was standing before me. “I waited twenty-two years, and this is who you give m
