The weather is still turning fast, but no snow has fallen, just gusty cold wind and frost in the mornings that is taking longer and longer to melt each day.

“Three days! I can’t wait.” Mina is jumping up and down.

She has taken on some of the mannerisms of these college girls, and while it’s endearing when she does it, the rest of them just kind of annoy me. I don’t understand getting excited about a nail polish color or the sale at a certain store, but I get the excitement of going home for a few days.

Home. That is such a weird thing to think about, because the compound is home to me. The castle is home to me. If I really think about it the Blue Crescent packhouse is home sort of. I don’t know if it will feel the same if or when I go back though. I have changed a lot being with the warriors and it hasn’t even been a year yet.

I miss Lillian, Wyatt and Nathaniel. They took me in without question and honestly very little information. Everyone else seems to be an open book, but they all understand that I have my reasons for keeping details to myself. They all know the condensed story of how I got the scars on my back, even Mina has asked since they always seem to be on display whenever Luna Anne and Sierra dress me. And they know I was attacked and drugged before coming here.

These friends don’t see me as weak though, they see me as

It makes me feel lighter, better, bigger somehow in

as I finish the thought, the front door to our little rental bursts open with Nickolas covered in

the hell?!”

“The rest of the team is back at camp getting things settled there, ready if the storm moves that far south. I got supplies, but we need to

weekend so we could get our brands. Why does it

are too young

that think you both are disposable little girls, that you are too important to be throwing out

given up the idea that we

us specifically though, also ‘an instinct.’ He doesn’t act this way with Alyssa and she’s only a couple years older than Mina and she hasn’t found or searched for her mate either and she was given her

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