He makes a sound of approval, one that betrays the human side of me by appealing to my wolf. "Do not forget your place again. Keep your eyes down, I want to inspect you." Inspect me? Like some show dog? He begins circling me. I feel akin to prey. "You're a tiny thing," he muses, sounding impossibly both unimpressed and pleased by this. "She's not as forward as you described, Paul. In fact, she's awfully submissive," he pauses briefly. "I'd like to see her wolf. If she's going to stand by my side, she'll need to fight there as well, and I can't begin to judge her abilities as a fighter in her human form." I snap my head up again. A mistake I imediately regret. Cole is in front of me in a flash, his hand in my hair, forcing my gaze to meet his. With no other options but to stare directly at him, I muster all my defiance and disgust towards him and convey it silently to him. He holds my stare for a bit, challenging me and damn I want to look away, but I don't. "There's that fire," he murmurs, "She doesn't back down easily does she?" Cole inquires to my father. Then to me growls, "But that fire will get you into a hell of a lot of trouble with me, do you understand? I will not have a defiant bitch for a mate. You will fight by me, not with me." A little bit of fear and a hell ton of anger sifts into my mind and my resolve dissipates entirely and without control. I look away.

Tasha Lockheart starts her new high school life at Witchery High. She is shy, too kind for her own good and underestimates herself sometimes. Ian Tatler, the school swimming team leader and the 'IT' group hottie, noticed the new girl the first day she came by the locker. To him she holds the quiet kind of beauty few girls he has come across, and is not really like the rest of the mob of girls in the school. But Tasha is oblivious to the surroundings and her own beauty, preferring to think she is the weird girl whom people stared at. Tyler Hunt is school's notorious attitude player with a popular tag on him. He is good looking and obnoxious (that's what Tasha thought of him anyway). He does not care for any girl. Only the one who can capture his rebeling heart. On a magical note, Tasha gets entwined with both boys with hidden secrets, as well as secrets of her own. Go through her high school life with her, through your very own eyes and experience your own first love :)