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  1. Dedication
  2. Join the group and stay up to date.
  3. Shadow Realm and Library of Knowledge Maps
  4. Map
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  67. Deserted
  68. Stay Connected
  69. Afterword
  70. Also by Jaymin Eve

After all, we rejected mates needed to stick together.

11

We pulled into the parking lot a minute later, and despite her jumpiness from my screaming fit, Sam still managed to lock her car, check all the doors twice, and then follow me into the school.

It was a weekday, so shifter students were everywhere, and it was weird to think that this had been my life not very long ago. When had I even graduated? Was that in the period of time where I’d lost memories?

Another jab hit my head, so I forced the thoughts away. Now was not the time for another screaming and/or vomiting session; I needed to stay focused on whatever Sam was showing me.

She veered away from the main hall, and I was grateful to get off that path so all the shifter students could stop freaking out and doing a double take at the alpha-mate being in their school.

We ended up in the theater wing. “They’ve closed this section down for renovation,” Sam said, “but I had to come in here to find some old school files, and I’m starting to think there’s more than just renovations going on.”

The closer we got to the basement, the more uneasy my stomach grew, swirling and dancing inside until I had to press my hand to it in an attempt to ease the flow. The energy here was dark, and I could tell from the relaxed expression on Sam’s face that she wasn’t feeling it. Whatever she was about to show me… it was connected to me. It had to be.

When she opened the door, pushing past the yellow tape that was supposed to keep everyone out, I followed her down the stairs. “I hope you don’t take offense to this,” I said, trying to distract myself from the dark wisps of energy that were sending my body into hyperdrive, “but what even made you snoop down here? You don’t seem like the type to venture into forbidden areas.”

She shot a small smile over her shoulder that I saw quite clearly even in the low lighting. “Would you believe that once upon a time, many years ago, I was the child always in trouble for sticking my nose where it wasn’t supposed to be? My nature is innately curious, and even though that has been somewhat beaten out of me, this time, I just couldn’t resist. Maybe it was fate since I happened to find the one person who might need to know about this place as well.”

Fate? I wasn’t really one to put faith into an entity that I hated most of the time—hello, Torin? Scraping the bottom of the barrel there. But again, it was either divine intervention or a ridiculously huge coincidence that Sam and I had found each other. Or more like she’d found me, right when I’d really needed her to.