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Gina was still going on about it. Something about knights and damsels and how if there had been a slow-motion camera, the whole thing could've made the cover of some werewolf teen magazine. I wasn't listening anymore.
Every step I took made some part of my body scream. My ribs felt like someone had played a round of drums on them. My jaw? Don’t even get me started. Caleb had definitely left his mark. But it wasn’t just the pain that had me quiet. It was Kade.
Why?
Why the hell did he step in like that? In front of everyone. In front of Miss Lisa. In front of Sophia.
First he rejects me. Then he saves me like I matter. Like I wasn’t just some girl he was forced to pair with. The mixed signals were getting whiplash-level serious and I didn’t even have health insurance.
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