Page 14 of Pack Kasen: Part 1

I just lost someone I hadn’t wanted to give up at all but needed to. I was freeing him to have the life he deserved with someone else.

Someone normal.

Now he’s dead.

If we’d still been together, maybe I’d have been with him when this happened. Sure, he might’ve seen me change into a wolf, but I could have fought back and protected him.

He’d havelived.

I make my way to the administration building, knock on the assistant dean’s office and we talk about a graduation speech that had been the center of my world for so long, but now I couldn’t give a flying fuck about.

I nod and I smile when everyone nods and smiles at me, while inside my head, my wolf gives my grief a voice, howling for me like I can’t out loud.

5

KAT

All day, I exist in a fog,

I drift from class to class, head to the dining hall to grab food, but settle on a bench to eat my lunch outside.

And sometimes, I’m almost positive I feel someone watching me.

As I leave my last class of the day, a sharp awareness lifts the hair on the back of my neck. I slowly turn, sweeping my gaze across the campus with students hurrying to and from class.

Nothing sticks out, yet my wolf is on high alert, and my instincts are screaming a warning. I inhale, cycling through the usual campus scents in search of the thing that’s making me think I’m under threat.

There.

My eyes narrow on a black Corvette. A seriously fancy car for a college student. The driver is sitting behind the wheel, engine running.

Our gazes clash through the windshield.

I’ve never seen him on campus before, and I would definitely remember a guy that hot. Everything about him is memorable, from his big shoulders, chiseled cheekbones, and warm brownskin contrasting with startling hazel eyes more green than brown.

Must be a jock with a stare that intense.

He blows me a kiss.

A creep.

Excellent. Just what I need today.

“What’s wrong, Kat?” Sadie stops beside me, one of the last to leave class after speaking with the professor about our last lecture.

“Who’s that?” The guy is bopping his head now like he’s listening to music in there.

And he isstillstaring at me.

Annoyed by my wolf’s insistent growls, I tell her to stop being on high alert. It’s just a creep. No need to be so tense.

“Not sure. Why?”

“He just blew me a kiss.”

Sadie bumps my shoulder and grins at me. “He has a nice car,andhe’s cute. Maybe he’s interested in asking you out.”

“He chose a bad day for it,” I mutter, finally turning away from the guy.

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