Unveiling the Bond

ery

stairs for breakfast and my mother was pouring coffee while my father

d. "He can't wait to pass the

ait to take it,"

ched him grow up, so I'm excited to think

ow to broach the subject. "It's about the transformation,

my mother joked. "I transformed at nineteen, and

then sat down in the dining room, i

at he thinks are prophetic, and that he thinks he's going to turn

has a powerful wolf because he will be an Alpha, that's

t wondering when I would have to go through the sam

nya told me that Luca asked you to the fall dance. It's in two weeks. If yo

again, the da

t, but it was unavoidable and

go," I relen

own for the weekend," m

mentally prepared myself to say yes to Luca, and even rehearsed it i

whate

hat's what

few of the phrases I had pract

umed that eventually, if I ignored them for a

asked Helga, one of my best friends

do you want

haven't transformed yet," she said wryly

with classes, the dance, you know

went with Luca Desantis himself,"

questioned her. After all,

him to prom every day, and he always turns them down sa

it for granted that

e to the dance without even asking me made me question his perception of me. Was he so sure that no other guy would be interested in me? Did he c

to the dance on the grounds that I was already his date added a layer of complexity to the situation. On the one hand, it made me fee

ca and the need to address this issue. Emotions were starting to get complicated in a way

uc

ercilessly throughout my body, as if a swarm of angry bees were mercilessly sweeping through it. I was drenched in a cold sweat that had broken through the s

to scream for help, but my voice refused to come out, trapped in a suffocating silence. A sen

emed to whisper incomprehensible words, as if they were deliberately out of my reach. I t

me an eternity of agony. Hours seemed to pass before fi

t and fuzzy, finally began

e saw me. "Luca! What's wrong?", she approached. "Cepher! Come!", s