The rest of the school day dragged by so agonizingly slowly that by the time the final bell rang, Lily didn’t want to wait until later that night to see Finn. She didn’t want to wait to tell him that she was sorry. She didn’t want to wait to make things right. So, instead of going straight to the Crescent after her last class, she found herself pulling into a parking space outside of the gym. Lily practically ran into the building, despite the exhaustion she still felt in every bone in her body, impatient and eager to see her mate and for everything to just somehow go back to normal.
What she found when she walked in, however, was a packed gym but no Finn in sight. Lily could see Damien at the front desk talking to one of their regulars, a man with more muscles than most bodybuilders, bu
