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It had been 2 days since my talk with Sophie, but I was couldn't forget about it. The questions she asked they hit me like an arrow. Xander was busy and with the Luna Games approaching I barely had any time to talk to him. We get up, he goes to his office and I train with Sophie in the training grounds. But despite all this I still couldn't shake the feeling that maybe our relation is all mate bond and we have given in because we are bound to each other.

.................................... Flashback..........................

" Hey Sophie, everything okay?" I say as I walk towards her. She smiles sadly at me and nods.

"Let's walk, Luna. I wanted to talk to you about something." She says and I nodded. We walked in the garden just outside the palace.

"I was thinking about Damon. We met only once and I felt like I had known him since forever. His touch, his voice everything about him had put me in a trance. Umm... I know you're thinking why I am telling you this or What this has to do with you, but let's just say you're the only one I can trust and tell this to. Luna, I'm scared that my relationship with Damon will be all mate bond. How can meeting one person for the first time compel you to say in first two days that you love them? How do you know what you have is special and not all mate bond? How can you trust someone with your life without knowing anything about them? How can you sleep next to them everyday just because of the fact they are 'meant' to be your soulmate? I know Damon came to you and told you about me wanting to reject him. I don't want to reject him just.... I just want to give our relationship some time. So we can know each other and then move to the next level. Also, I want that the next time Damon asks you about me you tell him what I told you. Please Luna, I would be very grateful." She says and stops walking.

To say her words hit me like a bus would be an understatement. I understood her, I always thought that my relation with my mate would be because of us understanding each other and not because of the mate bond. And now? I am starting to question my every single moment with Xander. I wonder if it was all because we are destined to be together or.... I don't even know if what we have is real, anymore.

I look at Sophie, her eyes filled with unshed tears and I hug her.

"I understand Sophie, everything is going to be alright. You're right everything has it's time and If we all are meant to be then we shall get what we deserve." I say and she nods. Then she pulls back and smiles at me.

" Thank you, Luna. You're honestly the best thing that ever happened to this pack. I have to go now, some matters have to be dealt with. See you tomorrow at training." She turns to leave.

"It's an honor. And Sophie?" I stop her midway and she turns to look at me.

"It's Cassie for you." I say and she laughs before leaving.

................................. End of Flashback........................

" Cassie? Earth to Luna!" I hear someone snapping their fingers in front of my face bringing me back to the present. I look in front of me and Sophie stands there with her hands on her hips, frowning. During my reverie I forgot that I was standing in the training grounds with Sophie who was showing me some fighting stances.

" Huh? Sorry what were you saying?" I say smiling sheepishly at her.

" What were you thinking about? I called you about a hundred times." She asks narrowing her eyes at me. Before I could answer she snaps her finger as if she figured what I was thinking.

" I KNOW! You were thinking about Alexander, weren't you? Missing him already? Oh I am so telling him this that you were thinking about him when you should be training!" She nudges me slightly while wiggling her eyebrows and I laugh.

" No, Sophie. I wasn't thinking about him." I shake my head at her and she looks at me with I-don't-believe-you-for-a-second- look.

" SURE, Luna, SURE." I hit her slightly on her arm.

" Can we go back to the training, please." I say while getting in a fighting stance. She shrugs and gets ready also. I slowly step forward and swing a punch at her face while she ducts and kicks me in the stomach but I block her by grabbing her foot and twisting it making her fall down. I then land some punches on her face which she blocks and hits me in the stomach making me fall back. She took that time to stand back up.

" So was it his eyes that made you zone out?" She says while trying to land a punch on my face. I grab her hand twisting it , making her turn.

"Oh please. Pretty sure he's the one thinking about me, right now." I say and knee her in the back and she stumbles forward. She then looks at me with her eyebrow raised and starts running towards me and I get ready to block her signature move.

"You think?" She says before jumping and shifts in mid air opening her jaw to bite me and I smirk knowing her next move. Before she could bite me I stand straight and tilt my head at her making her confused and she closes her mouth and lands right in front of me but I swing my leg from below making her land face down.

" You lose." I say while throwing her a shirt turning around I walk away from her before stopping and looking back at her.

" Sweetie, I know." I say and start running towards the castle.