KAYLA'S POV
I didn't know what I was expecting from my potential mate, but I thought staying untouched was the bare minimum. Even at the age when all the girls who were my peers started having their first kiss, it never moved me for two reasons. The first was that I was definitely convinced that my father would find out about it and kill me if he found out that I kissed a boy who was not my mate. The second reason was that my mother had told me that one would die from betraying a mate bond.
Of course, she meant it as when one found their proper mate, not when I was that young. I held myself to that standard and believed everyone else should follow that rule.
Now, I know it was naive of me to hold everyone else to the same standard as myself. It made no sense. It was for this reason th
