20"So students today I have decided that we will play a game. Your Defence class have always been a fun, haven't it? We learned many different techniques how to defend yourself, drop someone on their knees without applying any energy, to faint someone by pressing in correct places on the neck and back, how to tame your opponent and defeat them without hurting them! Right. "All the students from both the badges were made to stand in a circle. The professor stood among them in the circle revising all the techniques they learned so far. The day was cool as compared to other sunny days, regardless there was someone in the crowd who was burning. Ryley and his gang. They can't see how Valen and Vivian whispered to each other, poked each other's arm playfully enjoyi

22 There are limits to everything in this world. And false hopes stands no exception here in this regard. Hazel cannot help but exit the canteen frustratedly when the useless mates of her gang did nothing great but give her false desires to have taken revenge on Valen real soon."They stood mute when she degraded me and now they give me promises that will never be kept and brought to execution." Whimpering on top, she whiningly came walking to the locker room.There was no one in the entire school so that was the only good part. Nobody would see her tears or win any opportunity to laugh on her. Hazel growled hitting her bag on her locker such that it gave birth to a strong noise before falling on the ground thud.Why is it so difficult to remove all such memories from the mind! Why do they keep coming back. She tho

 24 So far it was owls everyone accused to be up with wide eyes not sleeping at all and a creature who liked more night than the day. But it was not the poor bird alone, actually Ryley too. Having partied hard in his favourite club and being kissed by many different girls, he was now returning home.He made sure to make as less noise as he can that could be avoided by his father since he was coming back home at 1.20 am in the night. It was not something rarely, if you ask but something that was dazing on his part. Because Ryley Shine never returned home before the sun rise and left for the college after the first lecture was missed.He quietly parked his car in the garage of built in the back of their house. Stuffing in a long breath in his lungs he effortlessly e

26Panicked and awestricken Ryley loosened his clutch around her at the moment. The dark surrounding just added to his panic when he tried to examine the area. There was no one around, his night vision cannot deceive him however he could not avoid her say too!"Who, who died! And who are they!" He asked holding her shoulders. Although it was impossible to see his face, her blurry vision and the pain roaming in every vein of her body made it difficult for her to see his face. Valen gasped pushing him away with her weak fist. Ohh yeah, why won't she push him away, he is their leader after all. Who knows, it was him only who ordered them to do this. "Go away, just go away I... I don

28 Night passed by like the blinks of lashes for Ryley. He could not fetch some sleep for himself at all! Although he tried but the thought of her sleeping inside unconscious did not let him sleep. He passed the time sitting out on the white bench in the garden constantly eyeing her window.He felt guilty of her condition even though it was not really him. Yeah, it will not be wrong to call him a coward because of whom this all happened to her! If Ryley had accepted her the last year only after finding out that he is his mate rather than hiding it not only from his friends but also from himself then may be, the circumstances had been different now.Never mind, let's just keep the past in the past and talk about the present. And Ryley's present was as saddening as t