My heart fluttered at the sight of Zed, my fiance, who I had not seen in far too long. And the last time I had seen him, I was bursting with anger. Now was different. He'd sent me on a treasure hunt across Vancouver, and now he was here as the treasure, surrounded by natural beauty.

I didn't say anything straight away. I let Zed pull me into a tight embrace and kiss my forehead. His warmth was delicious, especially with the sun starting to disappear behind a hill.

'I'm so sorry beautiful.' He whispered, refusing to let me go incase I disappeared again.

'It wasn't you.' I replied back, my eyes filling with tears.

'Maybe not, but I should have been stronger. How could I let someone get inside my head like that?'

'She must be pretty powerful.'

'Not for long. She will be stopped. Somehow.'

'Can we just focus on us for now?'

'Us?' He held my cheek with his hand. 'Am I forgiven?'

'If you never speak to her again.'

'Whatever it takes to win you back.' And then he kissed me passionately, yet gently, as if this was the first and the last kiss we would ever have. The kiss lasted a long time, making my body melt into his. When we finally pulled away, the sun had completely disappeared and we were stood in darkness.

Zed took my hands in his and kissed my forehead again.

'I hope we haven't missed the last bus.' I whispered, starting to feel cold.

'It's okay, we've still got plenty of time.'

That night, we didn't make love like I thought we might have done. Instead, I in my pyjamas and Zed in his boxers, sleep took us when we were wrapped up in each other, limbs tangled. It was the best night's sleep I had had in a long time.

When I woke up in our bed the next day, Zed wasn't lying beside me. I slipped out of bed and padded across the wooden flooring, following the sound of clattering pans and plates.

'What are you doing?' I asked, creeping up to Zed in the kitchen and wrapping my arms around his waist.

He jumped, somehow without knocking the saucepan of baked beans over. 'You're supposed to still be in bed.'

'You're supposed to be in bed next to me.'

He turned off the knobs on the oven and turned to face me, pulling me against his chest and kissing my forehead. 'I wanted to make you breakfast in bed. I've got a lot of winning you over to do.'

'I'm here, aren't I?'

'Yes, but I'm pretty sure I'm still dreaming.'

I stood on my tiptoes and reached up to kiss his lips softly. 'I think we're both wide awake. But I know another way we could find out.'

'Oh?'

I ran my fingers down his bare chest and stopped just past his belly button. 'Shall we test it?'

After making love and having a cold cooked breakfast, Zed and I headed to our evening 'Welcome' music lecture, preparing us for starting our course properly next week. Starting college was a lot scarier than just trying to settle in, but I was glad we'd been put into the same classes so that we knew each other.

My phone beeped as we walked out of the lecture theatre.

Hey, you around? Want the goss- J x

'Alright miss popular?' Zed winked, squeezing my hand.

'It's Jenni. Wants to hang out for a bit.'

'Oh.' His face fell. 'I was going to cook us dinner.'

'Well I need to pick up my stuff anyway. How about I meet you at home in an hour?'

'Sounds fair.' He smiled. 'I need to learn to share you anyway.'

'See you then.' I kissed him goodbye and headed off to Jenni's room, where I had been hiding out the past few weeks.

Walking across campus in the dark was pretty scary, I had to admit, even with the glowing traditional streetlamps. I wrapped my leather jacket tightly around myself and quickened the pace, trying to keep close to any groups that I could. That was when my back slammed against a tree away from the path. I tried to pull away and rub my bruising back, but I couldn't move.

'What the-'

'Hey Sky.' I heard Rose before I could see her. My skin crawled like hundreds of ants were running across it. I shuddered.

'You are the last person I want to see right now.' I growled.

'Oh, I guess that's kind of a shame isn't it?' She grinned, coming into focus. She ran a hand through her dead-straight hair and smiled, her eyes twinkling.

'What do you want?'

'Straight to the point, I like it.' She walked over to me and held my chin so that I was forced to look at her. 'So why haven't you been hanging around with your Alpha Phi sisters lately?'

'You know why.'

'No I don't.' She smiled, innocently. 'Please fill me in.'

'You bitch. How could you kiss my fiance? My soulfinder! What the heck is wrong with you?!'

'Language.' She tutted. 'That's no way to treat a sister.'

'Sister?!' I tried to pull away from the tree again but my body didn't want to move. 'I don't want anything to do with you or your sorority and in case you hadn't noticed, I wasn't part of your pledge services the other day. I did not sign to anything.'

'I guess you didn't. Though you could quite easily.'

'You will not be forcing me to do anything.'

'Really? Well you're not moving away from that tree right now are you?' She laughed at me squirming. 'Taking Zed and making him mine is going to be easier than I thought. I guess I'll see you around.'

She disappeared and I fell to the ground, the barrier holding me back suddenly breaking down. I stood up and brushed myself down. I thought I'd come to escape danger; now it just looked like danger was going to be everywhere I turned.

'Oh my god, what happened?' Jenni asked when she opened the door to her room. My jeans had muddy patches on them and my hair was a disaster. I looked like I had been dragged backwards through a bush, I was sure of it.

'Rose.' I growled in response.

'Wait, what?' My friend let me in and then closed the door behind me. 'You saw her?'

'More like she held me against my will.'

'No.' She gasped. 'She needs taking down and fast.'

'Tell me about it.' I sighed, tears in my eyes. 'She's still determined to take Zed away from me.'

'But why Zed? She could have any savant boy she wanted.'

'I don't know, but I'm sure as hell going to find out.' And I meant it.

When I was safely back in the apartment, I walked through the door to find the lights were on their lowest setting and there were candles everywhere. My heart lifted. What a lovely thing to come home too. I noticed Michael Buble's voice drifting through the air, which just made matters far worse; his voice was almost enough to make my clothes disintergrate without the romantic gestures alongside it.

Zed walked into the room wearing jeans and a shirt, the top buttons undone. He looked like he had just had a shower. His smile turned into a frown when he looked over my clothes. 'What happened?'

'I fell over.' I lied, not wanting to ruin the evening. 'You know what I'm like.'

'Go get cleaned up.' He replied, kissing my forehead. 'Dinner will be ready in ten.'

I knew I had to try my best to push Rose out of my head, but it was so damn hard. She'd made me angry and afraid... afraid I was going to lose Zed again. I knew I had to find out what her plans were, but first I deserved to have a romantic evening with my soulfinder. I gave myself a quick wash, let my hair fall out of its ponytail and changed into the tight black dress Jenni and Phee had coaxed me into. I felt a lot sexier, and hopefully I looked it. I quickly adjusted my make-up and checked my appearance in the mirror.

'Dinner beautiful!'

'Coming!' I pulled my dress down a little at the front to show some cleavage and then headed out.

The dining table had a vase, containing some of the treasure hunt roses, placed in the middle next to a candle. Zed had laid out our dinner; spaghetti bolognese. I felt lucky that his mom had started teaching him to cook before we moved out, or I would have been eating burnt pizza. He poured us each a glass of wine, before looking up to me.

'Wow.' He quickly put down the bottle before he dropped it. 'When did you get that dress?'

'When Phee came down.' I replied with a shrug. 'Does it look okay? I know it's not really me.'

'Not really you? Wow. You look so sexy.' His voice came across husky and I knew I'd had the right effect.

'Good.' I smiled, giving him a quick peck on the lips. 'Now come on, I've already had one cold meal today.'

For Zed, dinner tasted pretty good and he'd clearly worked hard to make it perfect. He'd even bought a cheesecake for pudding, though I'd decided to only have a small slice. After all, I didn't want to be sick the day before starting my new job. Zed and I soon moved to the sofa, where I sat with my legs across his lap, and we watched Game of Thrones.

'Seriously, is no one safe in this programme?' I gasped when it had finished.

Zed was tracing circles on my bare legs. He laughed. 'I guess not. You never know what will happen next.'

'Well he deserved to die... but some of the others shouldn't-'

He cut me off with a kiss. It was fiery and passionate and I knew immediately what was going through his head. I opened my mouth a little, allowing his tongue to slowly dance in circles with mine. His hand slowly moved up my leg until it was placed on the top of my thigh. Without pulling away from the kiss, Zed moved so that I was laying on the sofa with him on top of me. I kissed him harder, my breath quickening and then I knew exactly what I wanted; him as close to me as he could possibly get.