Stella POV
Since I came clean to Romeo about the invitation of Paige and Eulisses, he has been restless, and I understand where he is coming from, but I also need to at least try. I have tried to talk to him about it, but he somehow has closed himself up.
I have seen him stressed out, and when we talk about the ceremony instead of feeling him happy about it, dread is what I pick up from our bond, and it tears me apart. At first, when I told him what I had done, he understood, and he was on board, but when I told the rest of our team, they flipped and then Romeo was completely out of it.
Everybody, except Rose, was afraid that Eulisses would succeed in taking me, so we had a week of exhausting security meetings, ending up with my mate being completely out of himself.
Rose and I went
