Chapter 23

Ticking Bomb And it had been a long day all right. All through our morning classes, Jonathan's gaze had not left me at all, and it had both unnerved and excited me. And, naturally, the excitement part of my body response made me angry at myself, and that in turn made me even more unsatisfied at having him by my side as I walked into the cafeteria. 'Will you cut it out already?" I sighed, giving him a sideways glare. 'I didn't do anything." The flat way he said that made him almost sound clueless as to what was unnerving me at the moment. 'You're just following me around like a lovesick puppy. Other than that, you didn't do anything," I rolled my eyes as I got in line to get lunch. 'Mates are impossibly attracted to one another but they don't fall in love at first sight, you know," he drawled, his serious tone making me turn my head to look at him, 'You can't love someone you don't know." 'And your point is?" I obviously knew what he was getting at, but I played dumb for I wanted