ca Jo

rsity,' my conscience interrupts m

hes, grabbing my backpack before darting out of my room. Being late is not an opt

especially with Dante and his taunts. His mere presence i

liar car pulls up beside me. Damn! Just what I wanted to

dered, rolling

ar and apprehension clouding my mind. Why does he

asking me to get in? Wasn't I forbidden f

ing me?" His words snapped me back to

lead to anything good. But can I run? Not when he ho

ar," I replied, my voice stea

raised eyebrows refused me

s I

to say this to his fa

u've even learned how to go against me, huh?" His wo

r. Soon, I'll turn eighteen a

before he could protest further, the weig

reached the university, my breat

nor

oncern evident as she calls my name. Despite ev

laces a comforting hand on my shoulder. "You better tel

th a dog on the way here," I lie, t

te a dog. He makes me feel

hen a dog was chasing you? It would have been be

that we both are calling the alpha of the pac

ty insane. I don't know why my th

hat. It was a sudden reaction to

sroom and settle down

ad wasted a lot of time and that I was going to be late here

thin clothes. Don't you feel cold?" Amand

her that these are the charity clothes I've had for the past few years. I'm just tryin

I can't let anyone be aware of the fact that I'm rel

m clothes, and the ones I'm wearing are not thi

joining me for shopping today? You can't spend

t's why I have to leave ear

lready missed it yesterday. I can't keep missing my s

elf three meals, buying c

cholarship; otherwise, I would never have been ab

living this way rather than

between self-respe

the former, n