“Why are you getting up so early?” Bria asked, turning away from the window and pulling me down into the bed with her. “Come, sleep with me a bit more. We have all morning. Class doesn’t start for”—she opened one eye and glanced at the digital clock—“like, two hours.”
“I have a meeting this morning,” I said. “Go to school with Levi and Jasmine.”
“Please, stay,” she whined, digging her claws into my forearm. “Pleeeease.”
clawsAfter kissing her head, I peeled her off me and walked to my closet to grab a shirt and tie. “If I start missing meetings and classes because you want me to stay with you, people are going to get suspicious. Not everyone in the school is a wolf, Bria. They don’t understand this.”
this.And by this, I meant this growing, intensifying connection between us.
thisSure,
