I was never one to avoid a problem. In fact, I’d always prided myself on facing life head-on, being the strong, rational one in the room. But this... this situation? It felt like I had no footing, no ground beneath me, and I was still tumbling into some twisted reality where werewolves existed, and I was someone’s… mate?Mate.The word tasted absurd in my mouth. No matter how hard I tried to shove it out of my mind, it wouldn’t leave me alone. Stefan’s voice, so serious, so unshaken when he told me about the bond we apparently shared, kept replaying over and over in my head. I had laughed it off—what else could I have done? But now, the quiet moments were starting to eat at me.I sighed heavily, pacing in my small living room. The sunlight streaming in from the large windows should have felt warm and comforting, but instead, it just reminded me of the classroom where Stefan had said those words. The way he had looked at me, like I was the center of his world, made my stomach twist in
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