Page 128 of Tainted Romance

I was halfway up the hallway, heading towards my locker.

'Where are you going?'

I spun around. Who the hell said that? The hallway was empty.

'I said where are you going?'

Zane. It was Zane's voice. Inside my head!

'Zane?'

'Yes. Where are you going?'

'How the hell are you in my head?'

'We bonded when you kissed me. Now, where are you going?'

Bloody hell. I didn't know this would happen. I didn't know that if I kissed him, I would bond with him. Maybe that's why I had been wanting him so much. Everything clicked into place. Right down to the sore leg.

It was common knowledge that when Alpha feels pain so does his mate, although, in this case, we weren't really mates. Still, the same rule applied.

'Leave me alone,'I shouted in my head then pulled my earbuds out from my pocket. I wouldn't be able to hear him over the music, and he wouldn't be able to hear what I'm thinking. I needed to talk to Jace about how to put up a mental block because, right now Zane would be feeling everything I felt and hearing everything I thought.

I didn't even realize. No wonder he hadn't bothered with me. All this time he was picking up my emotions and prying into my thoughts.

Chapter Fifty-four

"I'm telling you. He was in my head!" I yelled at Jace, who really wasn't getting how much this was freaking me out. "He was talking to me!"

"Well, you started it by kissing him." Jace crossed his arms. "I'm guessing you are telling me this so you can learn how to put up a mental block."

"Yes!" Finally, he got the purpose of my visit.

"Well, I can't help." He shrugged his shoulders and made my mouth drop open.

"Why the hell not!"

"Because I don't know how to block out your mate. Alphas are known for it. There isn't really a way to tune him out, but you can see the good side to this."

"That being?" I said dryly.

"You can hear what he is thinking too."

"Fan-fucking-tastic."

"Come on, Allie."

"I have to go." I picked up my bag.

"Why?"

"Pack meeting." I looked at him with a less than impressed expression. "And now I get the pleasure of knowing Zane can just access my thoughts any time he feels like it. Heck, he could be listening to this conversation right now!"

"Allie. You will feel when he is listening."

"Because I felt it all the other times." I rolled my eyes and walked to the front door. "Someone should have warned me this could happen."

"Well, how were we meant to know you would go around kissing him?"

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