Chapter 42

I rushed out of the booth.

I wasn't supposed to be kissing him in dark corners. He was my mate but we were supposed to be taking things slow. Medaline had me swear to stay away from him so that this plan of Maggie's would work. As if my life was that simple.

I inhaled deeply, struggling to calm my frantic thoughts.

Why had I agreed to that stupid dare in the first place? It was something that high schoolers did, not college students! Yet, here I was contemplating if I should break my promise to my friend, who had requested that I stay away from Cassian as a way of giving him a taste of his own medicine and showing him what he's been neglecting. Medaline wanted me to be the romantic tease but I wasn't that person.

I had found a compromise in taking things slow with Cassian. We would keep our relationship at arms length, much like a friendship. We would try not to push each other to places that we weren't ready to go yet. He wasn't ready to spill all his secrets to me and I was o