Umayza I wake up in a tangle with almost all of my clothes—and that also includes the dress I had hoped I would never ever see again. But there it was, wrapped around my left leg. As I slowly sit up straight, I hear a knock on the door, and slowly it opens to reveal Evander. "Good morning, Umayza," Evander says, and he has a rather strange look in his eyes before he tells me why all my clothes are in my bed. "That was smart thinking on Conri’s part," I say with a smile on my face, but he barely looks at me as he informs me that breakfast is ready. "Conri and I will be outside. It is best if you handle the clothes so it smells of no one else," he mumbles before he closes the door, and I quickly get ready to grab some breakfast before we leave for the Academy. I put all my clothes back into the bag my Father packed for me, and I quickly check if I have the paper in my pocket. A plate of food is waiting for me on the kitchen counter, and I decide to eat it in the living room. After I place the plate and my cup of coffee on the table, I sit down on the couch. For a moment, I close my eyes to take in the room. I have done this a few times in my young life, and I have learned to use it on command. If I am in a room, no matter how small or big, I can recall the last events that occurred there. At first, it would happen at random until I learned to control it, and now I can call on it whenever I want. I see shocked looks on the faces of Conri and Evander. I hear them talking about me, and I hear Conri say that I am their Mate. Evander tells him they can decide at the end of the day what they will decide to do. My eyes fly open as the meaning of my vision—as I call them—sinks in, and suddenly I understand why Evander had been looking so strangely at me. This is not going to be easy for them, as they have to wait almost a year before they can claim me, and I feel sad as there is nothing I can do for them. "Just act as if you are not aware of it," a voice in my head sounds, making me jump from the couch. "Silly, I am in your head," the same voice says, and for a moment I am stunned into silence before I realize that it has to be my Wolf talking to me. "Hi, what is your name?" I ask her, and she tells me her name is Yade, but that I am not to tell anyone yet that she is there. I promise to keep it to myself until she tells me it is fine to tell anyone else. As I eat my breakfast, we talk about everything and nothing. I clean the plate and my coffee cup and put them back into the cupboards before I grab my bag to head out the door. Conri and Evander are standing near the SUV, and I hear Yade say "Yummy, Yummy" before she retreats to the back of my head. "Ready when you are," I say as I walk towards the SUV, and I put the bag next to me on the backseat before I close the door. Evander gets behind the wheel again, and Conri takes the passenger seat just like the day before—but I know that today is very different from yesterday. The three of us are a little wiser than we were yesterday, and I am not sure if it is for the better that I know. I am not even sure what will happen at the end of the day—what they will decide about me being their Mate. The words from my former Luna seep into my head again. She had told me on my sixteenth birthday that I would never have a Mate—that my fated Mate would reject me when he found me and that I would spend the rest of my life alone. Maybe she was right. Maybe they didn’t want me, and they would reject me at the end of the day. The SUV starts to slow down as we approach three other SUVs, and three Lycans approach our SUV as one of them points Evander where to park our SUV. "Umayza, you need to get out of the SUV and walk around the front to the center between the SUVs. We are hoping he is watching. All the back doors will be opened at the same time and will stay open for a while to give you time to place your clothes in the other SUVs. Once that is done, you will enter the SUV from within the center. Then all back doors will close at the same time, and we will all drive away. At a fork in the road, we will all take a different route to the Academy, and we are hoping he will follow the wrong SUV," Conri explains. I ask which SUV I have to get into before we leave, and Evander says they will drive me to the Academy—but I disagree with him. "There is a big chance he will follow your SUV, as you are the ones that picked me up. It will be better if I get into another SUV, and that will make the chances of him following me smaller," I say. A voice over the phone tells Evander and Conri that I am correct. I get out of the SUV to walk around the front as Conri had instructed me to do, and the three other males step towards me as Evander stands behind me. The man’s voice I heard over the phone introduces himself as Captain Armand, then he introduces Theron and Callan to me. "Captain, I will join you," I say softly as I walk past him to put some of my clothes in the other two SUVs—and I swear I could hear Evander and Conri growl.