Chapter 47

Juniper

I left Eric’s office as quickly as I could. My anxiety had been on the rise since we entered the room, and it was even higher now that I knew Lukas would leave for the next few days and only return a day or two before his ceremony.

I burst into Lukas’s room, and immediately began pacing the space, my thumb between my teeth.

I couldn’t pinpoint what had me so on edge. All I knew was that I needed to find some way to channel this chaotic energy inside of me, otherwise I might end up combusting.

I stopped at the foot of Lukas’s bed, my arms wrapping around the post to help keep me upright.

“Pull it together, June,” I muttered to myself, closing my eyes. “You’re being ridiculous. It’s just a few days. Nothing will happen. He will be fine.”

I continued to repeat the words over and over to myself until they became a mantra. He would be fine. We would be fine.

I didn’t want to think about that. I needed to get out of my head, to find something else to focus on so I wasn’t obse