---Divina---  Warrick gets in his Camaro and reaches across me and grabs my seat belt and buckles me in.  Our faces are close to each other, and he reaches his hand up and cups my cheek, sliding it to the back of my neck and leans in to kiss me.  I turn my face away and he ends up kissing my cheek.   “I’m still mad at you.  You don’t get to snuggle up with Vanessa and then kiss me later. I have some standards.” I glare up at him and his breath catches in his throat.   

Finally, she stirs and looks up at me and I am tempted to brush my lips against hers, but I hold back.  She seems to be gathering her thoughts so I sit patiently waiting for her to speak.  She stares down at her hands, twisting them in her lap as she speaks, “Alina agrees with you that we hide we are mates for now, but it will be important for us to strengthen our bond because it will be tested.  I don’t know what she means by that, but it scares me.  I don’t know what this is between you and I, but I am also afraid to lose it.’  She looks up at me as she says those last words and I can’t help but, reach up and smooth her hair away from her face and cup her cheek.  I gently rub my thumb under her eye, c

---Divina---  I am sitting on my window seat FaceTiming Tia for the first time since my mom and I moved.    I already walked her around my room and she oooh'd and awed over it while I gushed about how much I loved it.   It was good to hear from her, but our FaceTime was awkward.  It felt like we were two strangers forced into a conversation out of obligation and I knew we would end up talking a couple more times before we stopped all together.  

It's Friday.  This has been the longest week of my life.  Even though Bren insisted I started training right away, I have opted to wait and start tomorrow.    Last night was incredible and I can’t wait to go flying again.  Uncle wasn’t happy with me when he found out I flew without him there.  He said some nonsense about that I could have been hurt, but honestly, I think he just wanted to see it for himself.     Our whole pack is under an Alpha command not to tell a soul that Gloria and I have already shifted and that there is something more to me than a

I drop the mind link and realize that we are entering the training grounds and am shocked to see around 50 people stretching and some are already sparring.  I gulp.  I don’t know if I can do this.  The man that spoke to my mom and I the first day we entered the pack territory, walks over to us and nods respectfully to Bren and looks over at me and takes in my attire.  His look is a bit disapproving and he says, “You’ll have to lose the baggy top. Your sparring partner will have that up and over your face before you can blink."  “Divina, this is Marcus, dad’s Head Warrior, and he runs the training program for our