The Harbinger's Forbidden Mate

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ses is that they brea

inally breathe. But instead, seventeen became the year everything shattered like someone

n the school's hallway. My image peered back at me with storm-gray eyes that seemed too

cosmos has a terr

odie up. Head down. Earbuds in, even if the music wasn't play

alone, thinking that was precisely where I wanted to be. The truth? I used to sit in the middle

ding here," a voice said

ok up. I recognised

ay. The same boy who had been tangled up with my best frie

plastic fork till it alm

like he had the right. His brown eyes examined me li

nchalantly, like I had no right to

pleasant. "Funny, I don't remember

didn't mean anything. Yo

on't you dare say love. You don'

But then he leaned closer, dropping his v

. Of course I thought about him. About us. About everythin

stood. "Here's a thought,

as I walked out, but

h I didn't care about. Numbers blended together on the whiteboard. I kept my head low

. Unseen.

it oc

one had driven a burning brand into my skin. I hissed a

lightning etched themselves across my ar

hell..." I

t me frowned

flickered. The buzzing sound got louder,

sile

errible

ence. Every student around me sat immobile, mouths half-

or one i

re. Dark hair flowing into storm-gray eyes that reflected mine. His eyes latch

softly, though his lips hardly moved. His vo

's happening? W

g me with eerie calm. "Because of you

hammered. "Po

d, leaning forward. "But you will. And when

warning, not cruelty. Still, fear wrappe

and," I whispere

e saw my confusion and almost pitied me. Then he pushed his

olling off his tongue like he'd always known i

ploded. Glass shattered. The class

in, like nothing had happened. The teacher still scribble

boy wa

ing faintly under my sleeve. My chest a

And why did it feel like my world had

t the rune burning on my

t am

red again, as if the worl

beneath her skin. The words she swore she heard, tho

ible isn't an

e, I realizedI wasn't