11 Nina “Nina Oisin, I accept your rejection as my true mate and thereby cut ties with you forever.” After a few weeks of pestering me over and over, Madden finally rejected me. I just didn’t understand why he had to make the rejection public. To punish me for rejecting him? But if so, why was there sadness and unwillingness in his eye? And why didn’t I feel the pain and disconnection I’d felt with Kyle? Why wasn’t I feeling the bond between us breaking? There was still a bond between us. And now that he had pretended to reject me, I could even see the bond. It was like a long red rope tying our pinky fingers together. And Madden saying the rejection spells didn’t break it at all. What did that even mean? I looked up to stare at Madden, who was staggering out of the lunch cafeteri

