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“Amazing,” Daya agreed. “Cats are notoriously hard to control.”
“It’s true,” Sunny said. “They pretty much do their own thing. You can ask them and maybe, if they’re feeling cooperative, they’ll comply. But most of the time, they won’t.”
“Because they’re cats,” she and Daya said together.
Well this explained a lot.Maybe my experiences with Miki-Leopard weren’t so different after all. “So, do your cats speak with you?”
Sunny’s eyes widened.
Daya exclaimed, “Yours talks?”
Shit. Time to backtrack. “Sometimes she seems like she’s trying to communicate something to me.”
“Pictures?” Daya asked.
I nodded. “Like when she wanted me to snarl at Elliot, she sent me an image of her baring her fangs.”
“Oh, yeah, that’s normal,” Sunny said.
“Totally normal,” Daya said. “I have Camouflage coming up, so I have to head out, but let me know if you have any other questions. And if you want to go for a run someday, I’m totally up for it.”
“Me too,” Sunny said as she got up with Daya. “I’m heading to the library to check out a few books, but I’d love to hang out sometime. It’s so cool to have another cat shifter on campus.”
I smiled because that was truly awesome to hear. “Thanks, guys.”
After they left, I fell silent, thinking about everything I’d just learned.
“What’s wrong?” Jasmine asked.
I hesitated a moment, but quickly realized it was silly to hold back with them.
They were my two best allies in this school, especially if Zowen came back for me. Well, them and Jahrdran.
As if just thinking his name caused him to appear, Jahrdran dropped into the chair next to Kasi. He hooked an arm around her and pulled herclose for a kiss.
Seriously. Those two.
They were probably the reason Jasmine was so eager to find her fated mate.
Though honestly, Kasi and Jahrdran had been through hell to get to their happily ever after, so I wasn’t sure why Jasmine found their love story to be so inspirational. Who wanted to suffer agonies before finally finding your fated mate?
According to Kasi and Jahrdran, however, every minute apart was worth what they now had together.
Similarly, Jasmine believed wholeheartedly that any amount of suffering would be worth it if in the end, she found her fated mate.
Then again, she’d never been thevictim of torture, so I supposed it made sense that she still viewed the world and the concept of fated mates through starry eyes.
I, on the other hand, had been the victim of a man who’dhada fated mate and lost her. However beautiful and wonderful their mating might have been, as far as I was concerned, it could never make up for the agony and suffering he caused millions in the aftermath of her death.
Knowing this history, I now believed every fated mating had the potential to turn into a darkness that smothered the world, and as such, I would be just as happy tonevermeet my fated mate as Jasmine would be to meet hers.
"So?” Jasmine demanded.
I glanced at her,startled. “So what?”
“What’s wrong?”
It took me a minute to remember what we’d been talking about. Miki-Leopard. Right. Time to share what I was grappling with. “I started calling my leopard Mikaela-Leopard because she’s still me, just the leopard part of me.”
