Twelve

So, I tried to read their emotions as they disappeared into the forest, and all I got for my trouble was a migraine that lasted for three hours, and a bad case of dizziness that made me throw up.

When I missed dinner, Shane’s father came to visit me, probably thinking it meant Shane had finally gotten me pregnant.

One sniff later and he was away again, leaving me alone in a dark room with a pounding head and the world spinning around me.

No one else came to see if I was okay. No one cared.

But this time, the distance between me, Mack, and Bennett isn’t as great as it was back then, and we’re all outside, so it should prevent me from getting a migraine. Even if it does, if I learn something important, it’ll be worth it.

Opening myself up like this isn’t easy, and the only reason I know how is because the omega who trained me explicitly warned me never to attempt it.

It takes every ounce of my concentration to cast my senses out in a tightly focused way because all around me I’m surrou