#CHAPTER 37 A date

Evan had to go away on business again. There was so little time for us to spend together between his Alpha duties and my classes, especially with the time for finals creeping ever closer. There was also the added stress of Rafael taking me to see her gynecologist so I could start birth control, another thing she held against Evan for his carelessness in not handling himself, since he was legally my guardian and I would have no reasonable way of knowing how to handle myself. Maybe the compounded stress was the reason for the strange nightmare that plagued me two nights in a row. His absence made me so uneasy in the wake of the new turns in our relationship. I couldn't remember the entire dream, but what little I did recall was dark and terrifying enough to bathe me in sweat when I awoke. Something about Evan, and blood, and screams. It was on the third day when I dozed over my homework at my desk that I remembered it all at once: the nightmare took shape in my memories, crystal