Chapter 4: Those icy blue eyes

They reached the university and saw freshman families coming to drop their kids off. Jenny and her family knew Mark and Sheila very well.

“Hello, Mark,” Jenny’s father extended his hand.

“Hello, Daniel.”

“Girls are big now,’” they chatted. Desperate, Savannah couldn’t wait for the information Jenny wanted to share with her.

“Did you find something?”

“Shut up. Let’s submit the document, and I will show you.”

“Aunt, can I go with Jenny? I would like to see her department?” Jenny smiled at Sheila.

While the elders were busy, these girls headed towards the building.

“What is it?”

“So, it was hard to find something solid on this, but someone told me to go through this site,” Jenny smiled.

“And then?”

“And then, nothing, no such lead,” Savannah snapped, jerking her hand.

“What?”

“All this time, I thought you found something, and all you have to tell me is this...”

“But someone replied to check in cult books.”

“What are the cult books?”

“And where the hell am I going to find these books?” Savannah burst, and followed the other students blindly, thinking they were heading to the office.

But indeed, they entered the wrong door. The fragrance in those papers had an ancient history. The old spine of those books is ready to reveal the treasure hiding within themselves. Savannah’s eyes widened, looking around.

“Aren’t we supposed to go to the office?” Savannah jeered, completely lost in this enigmatic place.

Jenny arched her brows. “Look around. You are in the history department.”

“So everything starts from here; all you need to do is connect someone who could give access to special editions of occult books.”

Savannah came back to the ground after appreciating this beautiful sight. “Connect someone? Like a student?”

Jenny slapped her head. “Do you think a student can help you get all those books, idiot?”

“Then?”

“Connect with a professor or the librarian,” Jenny whispered.

Savannah frowned, looking at the older adult, trying to scan the words on his keypad and trying hard to press the correct letter.

“I don’t think I will find anyone here.” Jenny’s focus shifted from Savannah’s face towards her phone.

“It’s mom. I have to submit my document. See you outside,”

Jenny left her there, heading towards her department.

Savannah scanned the crowd, half lost in their books, while others were busy watching their laptop screens.

She bit her nails, watching this would be her future in some days. Her unintentional feet took a few steps back, trying to see where she needed to submit her documents.

She turned and bumped into a wall.

Well, the wall was not hard, as she conceded. It was a human, indeed a giant human. She blinked nervously and scanned the broad spartan’s shoulder. He was taller than her with a herculean build. Her nostrils filled with branded fragrance in the presence of this man. He was holding her dainty frame, and her eyes met with his gazing, his dark eyebrows furrowing down at her.

His icy blue eyes darkened when her gaze met his. His perfect jet-black hair was slicked back, and his sculpted face was coated with a stubble beard. Her eyes traveled toward his caramel-swollen lips, which he pulled between his teeth.

She inhaled a complete breath cycle in his arms, scanning his presence, and snapped out when he slid his hand down her waist.

“I am sorry.” She whispered, chewing her lower lip.

He blinked, trying to avert his mind away from her lush lips.

“Who are you?” His manly voice created a whirlpool inside her being. His voice was denser than his looks.

“I... I...” she couldn’t make out the word; it was like he controlled everything inside her.

“My name is Savannah Lopez,”

“I am a freshman student,” she recited the word without blinking. He was one of a kind, a handsome man she had never seen.

He fixed his blazer and crotched to collect his documents.

She tried to help and questioned, “Are you a student too?”

His eyes landed on her exposed thighs, her flawless skin looking perfect with white shorts.

His jaw clenched, and he stood to give her his last gaze.

“Are you?” Her contagious smile could make others to grin, but he looked so solemn.

He heaved a low breath and looked away; he didn’t want to answer any of her questions. She stepped back as the awkwardness crippled her smile, and he walked away.

She watched him go out of her peer when Jenny came and grabbed her hand.

“Who was that handsome?”

“I don’t know,”

“He is so hot.”

Savannah rolled her eyes. “Doesn’t matter. All the hot guys are not good. He is rude,”

“I would say the rudeness suits them.”

They giggled and walked towards the reception.

“First, we have to submit the document,”

“And then you have to find someone you can rely on for your thing.”

“Yeah,” Savannah rolled her eyes.

They finished the work and came out to face their parents.

“Let’s check your dorm,” Sheil suggested.

They drove towards their dorm, which was a ten-minute walk from her university, inside the university campus.

“The location of the campus is beautiful, in the middle of nowhere, with greenery and hills,” Mark teased.

“I would say it’s good. At least these people will have nowhere to go, no pub, no club, movie,” Sheila arched her brows.

“Only studies,”

Savannah didn’t want to interrupt because she knew even though this campus was in the countryside, it still had fun to enjoy. Camping, bonfires, zipline, trails, etc.

They reached the dorm.

“It’s on the second floor,”

Jenny and Savannah’s parents entered. The living room was spacious, including the kitchen, while this dorm had two rooms.

Savannah’s room faces towards the woods, while Jenny’s towards the building.

“I hope you are not afraid of woods and scary voices,” Mark teased.

“No, I am happy.”

“That’s good, privacy and a friend’s company,” Mark added.

“Yeah.”

“Your patio slider. It’s not working,” Sheila pointed at the latch.

“We will submit a complaint about it.” Jenny made a note in her journal.

“Well, everything looks good for me. When do you want to shift?”

“Tomorrow,” Savannah bit her lips.

“Sure,”

“We will bring your stuff tomorrow,” Sheila and Mark scanned the perimeter, sensing no wolf in the area.

“It’s safe,” Mark whispered.

They drove back. Savannah was excited to explore this new life, but little did she know she had already encountered the devil on the first day of her college.