Grandmother sighed, standing up slowly. "Get some sleep, dear. Things might look different in the morning."
But I knew they wouldn't. Morning would bring school, where I'd have to face not just the Williams brothers but the entire pack's judgment. Where every whispered conversation would stop when I walked by, every glance would carry speculation about how I'd managed to "trap" three of the most powerful wolves in the territory.
After Grandmother left, I lay back down and pulled the covers over my head, trying to block out the world. But sleep refused to come. Every time I closed my eyes, I felt the bond pulling at me like a physical ache, carrying emotions that weren't my own, worry, regret, and longing so intense it made my teeth hurt.
At some point in the early hours of the morning,
