8

“Um…hello?”

I jumped, almost dropping the small stack of papers. A sense of something else lingered at the edge of my mind, another presence, a sense of magic. With that feeling came a voice, but it wasn’t mine, and it wasn’t my wolf’s. It sounded a bit like…

“Tavi?” I asked. “Is that you?”

“Bryn!” Tavi responded. “Yes, it’s me. I felt…another person in my mind, and I thought I was going crazy. I had no idea that was you.”

“But how are we…how is this happening?”

“It’s part of our bond!” She had so much excitement in her voice that she almost sounded like the old bubbly Tavi from before Troy had kidnapped her. “Alphas and betas can communicate like this, but I didn’t think we would be able to do this because this was supposed to be temporary.”

“This is amazing!” I had tingles. Despite the setback of Troy’s escape, the fact that I had an alpha connection to Tavi made me feel like it hadn’t been a series of misunderstandings that had led to me being alpha. “I was just thinking I could us