A week later, I open the door to leave for school and Ken stood before me. Startled, I frown at him. He had not informed me about his coming, so it indeed surprised me to see him.“What are you doing here?”“I came so we can walk to school together,” he beamed at me.“You could have waited at your place. I always walk by every morning.” I point out.He stuffs his hands into his pocket and stretches a little. “You’ve walked past without me noticing this past week. So I thought it best to come to your place instead.”I would say I am avoiding him, more of trying to help him move on so that if anything happened to me, he would not be so broken-hearted about it.The attack I faced in the bathroom was the first, but not the last. Every day in the last week, Dane has attacked me. In the bath

"That's enough! Let her go!" comes the commanding voice of Dane and my eyes flies open and my shaking body stills. Spencer does not let me go as Dane command him to. Instead, his eyes leave mine and flies over to Dane, who probably stood not so far away.He scoffs, "Why should I? You do not know what she has done?" he demands, his grip on my hair tightening. "And this isn't any of your business, so for your own safety, I advise you stay out of it!"The arrogance in Spencer's voice tells me he has no clue who he speaks to. Perhaps because he hasn't been around Dane long enough to denote his voice, and he assumes he was just a nosy passerby he can rudely speak to. The street lights in this area are faulty and the light they produced barely illuminates the street and made it hard to see, which must be why Spencer and his minions picked this spot to attack me. "I don't care what she has done, I care that you're hurting her so I'm going to ask you

Mama asked Lorenzo for another favour today, and he accepted and drove me to school. She told me to stay safe and call her if anything happened. Her eyes revealed that she didn't want to leave me, but she had no other choice. I informed her I could take care of myself. I also told her I felt fine, better than yesterday, which she knew was a lie, but she understood I wanted her to worry less. She nodded and waved me off.All eyes stay on me as I walk into the school premises. They gawk at me like an alien with wings and tails, and I will not say I'm surprised. Most of them already experienced their premier shifting and got blessed with the ability to heal. Even Dane looked astounded when he noticed I wasn't healing last night. Way to stand out, Jaclyn! I high five myself mentally. Knowing I can't go back home, I inform myself that the student stared because I look stare-able, which has to be a good thing.I am in school because I h

“Where are my manners?” I sigh, realising I haven’t invited him to join me, “I know this might not be what you normally eat—” “What do you think I normally eat?” he asks, a bit of humour in his deep voice. ‘Honestly, human flesh.’ I don’t dare say it out loud. My shoulder lifts in a mild shrug. “Something fancier and richer, filled with fattened meat you'd consider most important. I know this isn’t any of that, but care to join me?” I stretch the fork in my hand over to him. I studied at the Unique Academy for six years and I saw how the rich kids behaved; they carried themselves with pride and grace and did not mingle with just anyone there. The poor, like myself, kept company with those in their social status, and the rich did likewise. There has always been a bridge between us and I have expected Dane to maintain, but he hasn’t done that ye

Dane's POV "Come." I hold out a hand to Jaclyn standing at the door with a white silk gown. She looks so enchanting, so perfect with her coarse black hair falling over her shoulder and every fibre in my body made known what I knew. I want her now more than I can control. She also looks nervous and a little sceptical, but takes my hand gingerly and I pull her closer to myself. The feel of her body against mine set loose a few nuts in my brain and ignites the fires that burns within me. I can tell she's afraid of me, of us, and what we could be, and I don't want her to be. I tilt her chin up and her enchanting blue eyes lift and lock in mine, causing my heart to skip in my chest. She has no idea what she does to me with her every move and despite not wanting to be overcome by the thought of her, I can't