Val’s scent haunted me, that sweet trace slipping through his wolfsbane in the locker room yesterday, his arm warm under my fingers as I wiped away blood.

I couldn’t sleep, my wolf pacing, the bond burning like a storm I couldn’t control. Headmaster Rin’s warning rang: “You will fall with him.” I tossed in my bed as I wondered where Val was, the moonlight spilling through the window.

Unable to stay still, I climbed to the Observatory Rooftop, the night wind cool, but his scent ...