Chapter 185

KAELA’S POV I didn’t know how werewolves knew their mates. By scent? A dream from their Moon Goddess? I never thought it would concern me. For witches, though—for me, at least—it was…nothing. Magic has a noise, a hum. It’s constantly vibrating around me, through me. But the moment I met Zayne—when I stumbled upon him in the woods, studying a Moonshade Bloom plant like it held all the secrets of the universe—all that noise just…silenced. The birds chirping in the air, the squirrels darting in and out of trees, the constant buzz of magic flowing through my veins and around me—it all just disappeared, and in that moment, it felt like Zayne and I were the only two people, the only two beings in existence. That’s how it felt now when he kissed me, blasting everything else to oblivion. We’d kissed before, back in Andrea’s house, when I convinced myself I needed his lips on mine to wash away all the uncertainties that had plagued me after he’d practically declared that his guardian bond was m