Chapter 13. Coming Together Again

Liam

Ainsley’s wide-eyed expression is both surprising and not at all when she realizes I’ve been waiting for her here.

I’ll admit, this matebond has made me do some crazy things since it’s awakened. But never in my life did I ever expect to find myself banging on her dorm room’s door to confront her, only to come face to face with her very confused roommate, who had been just as puzzled to find Ainsley missing from her bed.

Stalking the entire campus and tracking her scent in the misty hours of the early morning, finding it and tracing it back to this damn bus stop, only to find she’d departed hours ago, and then choosing to check back here the entire weekend multiple times a day at the small possibility she’d return had nearly driven me insane.

My anger had been my constant companion, convincing me she’d gone back to her pack to get back up now that she knew I’d be a more difficult mark than she’d bargained for. I’d readied myself to confront