Cal Alexander brings me to his room, and I watch as he rushes towards the closet to find some clothes and then tells me that he’s going to take a shower. I walk around his room and realize that there’s a whole side of him that I never saw when I was his girlfriend. It feels like that time between us is so distant now… I wasn’t a wolf; I didn’t know anything about mate bonds and all the complications with this world. My eyes land on a few pictures in the corner and I notice they’re of us… the one that catches my eye the most is of a photo strip that was from our third date. I pick it up smiling softly as the memories flashed through my head: He reached for my hand nervously as he guided me to different places at the fair. The whole time he was avoiding eye contact with me and seemed to

