Love Blind

***Veronica took his hand and reveled in the sparks that shot up her arm and nodded her head.

She took one more deep inhale of his heavenly scent and came to a decision. She was going to enjoy this day with Isaiah, enjoy the feelings from the mate bond. But come tomorrow, she would make it her mission to never see him again.***

Veronica Lewis was dreading the day of her eighteenth birthday where she'd finally meet her mate. She'd seen too many destructive mate relationships, including her mother's, and desperately wanted to avoid ending up in a similar situation. She's seen the success stories of course: happy and in love, strong and healthy mated relationships, but those seemed rare to her. She secretly yearned for a mating like that, one where it was okay to be blindly in love because you were safe in the dark with your mate. But she knew it'd be too good to be true.

There seemed to be a common thing with she-wolves: misinterpreting abusive nature as love. But Veronica wanted nothing to do with that kind of love. Or with a mate. If the moon goddess could make such matches knowingly, she could go kick moon rocks.