Cole:
Emma. I think deeply, trying to figure out why her name sounds so familiar to me. But Rachel’s stagy voice is so annoying.
“...We have the glass broken on the door, the dishes broken on the floor, and the blood splattered on the counter. There is a note that makes it like a suicide but the hand writing is rushed with a bit of blood droplets on it. And if we take a look at the body hanging from the fan, there is no chair anywhere around. So how could the dead hang himself? Besides, there’s hair on his clothes that does not belong to him. All of these mean he was murdered by someone.”
I don’t like the superior and scornful way Rachel looks at Emma. Both of them are humans, weak and mediocre. She’s no better than Emma.
“Well then Emma, what’s your deduction?” Detective Bates asks.
My group are waiting to see her make a mess of herself, because as enforcer trainees, we should be more experienced than her. But I cast my gaze on her, realizing that I’m not sure whether I want her to be right or not.
“A profiler does not only profile people, but also profile data. All the details should be treated as a whole.” She says with her eyes as bright as usual. “Let’s take a look at the broken glass first. Most of the pieces are outside the house, which indicates that the glass was broken from the inside of the house.”
Everyone opens the folder to check it.
“Second, the only indication of another person is the supposed hair strand found on the body. It actually means nothing because of the infinite possibilities. ”
“How do you explain the water on the floor beneath the deceased’s legs?” I challenge her.
She surprisingly looks at me. I know what she’s wondering. This is a key clue that my group didn’t even notice. I didn’t point it out at first for using it to test whether my people have herd mentality. And damn, they do have.
“If he committed suicide from that point of height, he must have stood on something solid, right?”
I nod at her question, encouraging her to go on.
“And ice, which means frozen water, is solid.”
Rachel’s face is red with anger.
She looks around, not stopping there: “I would say the deceased stood on the ice to commit suicide, hoping all the water would have dried by the time he was found. The suicide note was just used to mislead the police because he didn't mention any specific killer.”
She pauses for a while.
“He’s a lonely old man living in that house for ten years without family and friends. He needed someone to notice him, even an imaginary murderer.”
Silent. None of my group are able to argue with this conclusion.
And I just can’t take my eyes off her.
“Bravo.” Detective Bates claps, “We have been giving this case to interns for the past ten years and no one has managed to solve it. This case has not been in the records for public because we wanted to use it for teaching. You impressed me, Emma.”
“Thank you, sir.”
She’s still calm but the blush on her cheeks reveals her shyness. I never really care for human issues so I wouldn’t put too much effort. I start to regret that now.
“OK, let’s move to the next session.” Detective Bates collects all the folders and when he flips mine over, his eyes become piercing. “I guess some of you are hiding your talents. But we won’t give you the chance to do that. You work with the skills you have.” He points some guys, including Rachel. “You guys will be on case administration.”
Rachel looks been wronged and raises her hand. “Excuse me sir, can I switch over to combat training?”
I almost have respect for her confidence. How can she behave like she’s entitled?
Detective Bates doesn’t answer directly: “How many of you have combat skills?”
My group and Emma raise hands. Yeah, she must have exercise habit or her body shape won’t be so hot.
Detective Bates turns to Rachel: “You don’t have, so no. Now who has experience with coding?”
Three people raise their hands and one of them is Gryphon.
“Nice. Coders are hard to come by. You guys head towards the wall of screens behind me. And you guys--” He points at Emma and my group, “-- go to the training court in the next room, and make a pair with anyone you like. ”
Gryphon waits till Emma gets up and mumbles out a goodbye. I frown. When did they get to know each other?
“Hey, the sweet-tooth girl is impressive.” Avery whispers to me. “What do humans call mating? Dating, huh?”
“Marriage.” I throw a cold glance at him. “Be my pair?”
Avery whistles with an easy smile. “Why not?”
After ten minutes --
“Woooh!” Avery dodges from my fist. “Why don’t you pair with Andre?”
“I like you better.” I grin with my teeth clinched. My wolf roars in my body, attempting to let off steam, and anger.
“I don’t feel it that way.” Avery sees my wolf peek and gives it all he has as well.
We get so caught up in our fight, even not realizing the rest of the interns has stopped to watch us.
I don’t mind at all until I feel Emma’s eyes on me. As dodging from Avery’s attack, I turn and lock gazes with her, which hushes my irritable wolf magically. It confuses me so I just stay in place until I see she gasps while Avery’s fist hits on my face.
Emma: Sam is a nice, well-trained pair, even though she’s one of those snobs. We went blow for blow, really having fun until the beast growl started to haunt me. I ask Sam to stop and take a water break. My mouth is dry, not only because of the training, but also for catching a glimpse of Cole’s muscular arms. His t-shirt, which has become semitransparent, practically sticks to his sculpted body. I can almost feel the droplets of sweat carrying heat running over his skin. The beast keeps growling, sometimes excitedly, sometimes irritably. I’m not sure it’s from Cole or Avery because this pair are too close. They are good fighters with graceful movements. But I find myself hard to focus on both of them because my attention is always drawn back to Cole.
Cole: The yoga pants gluing to her body perfectly shows her body shape. She’s not skinny but more curvaceous. I see a tattoo on her lower back when her t-shirt rolled up as she raised her hands to coil her black hair into a bun. Every time she moves, the tattoo ripples on her silky skin. My wolf growls. I feel dizzy again. She suddenly turns around with her fear blowing to me. I become alert and tense my body. “You shouldn’t be here now.” It’s my shift to patrol around. I realized by scent that someone was in the gym. I thought it was because of the distance that the scent was ambiguous. She must have walked along the path near the forest to the gym. And dawn is dangerous for a human girl, especially here. We have wolves everywhere; besides, God knows what those witc
Emma: "What kind of monster are you? How are you even real? And who the hell are you calling a witch? Do I look like a fucking witch to you" I try to shove his hands off my neck. He looks like a maniac. Cole looks at me with his brow furrowed. I know I am not going crazy, everything about him points to something supernatural that I have come across in books. He adds more pressure to my neck making it a bit difficult to breathe properly. "Don't play innocent here" "Maybe we should take a few steps back" Gryphon interrupts. "What the hell is going on?" some guy screams and Cole's hands on my neck relaxes and I use all my strength to shove him off me. "She is a witch Ty" Cole points towards me. "No I am not and you are a monster" I try to get as far as I can away from him but he catches me by the back of my shirt. "I can solve this" Gryphon pipes in and we all turn towa
Emma: I am running again in the forest and the beast is just behind me. The exit of the woods seems so close and just as I turn out I come across a field full of wolves fighting with other wolves. There is different colors in the air and I can see people standing there. I turn looking for someone but I can't remember who. I run to the middle and something slams into me from behind. Then I see Lei and she is on fire. I can't control the pain that radiates through me and I fall. I awake with a splitting headache. I look towards the clock and it is after 6, well I have to admit that is first time. For the past two years my nightmare always woke me at 4. Rubbing my eyes I turn towards Lei and she is sitting there staring at me. “What?” “Who are you and what have you done to my best friend?” I look at her with confusion “Huh?” “You are late for work” “Oh shit” I run into the bath room and see that I have my sport
Cole:I was having such a relaxing evening and then trouble came in the form of Emma. I tried my best to keep my eyes off her when she was on the dance floor but once Malcom put his hands on her my wolf took over. Avery just agitates him more by flirting with Emma. I keep reminding my wolf that we belong to Silver.“What the hell is your problem?” Emma asks and I turn towards her and get a proper look of her up close and her scent fills my senses and my wolf starts fighting for control again. Wanting to show everyone that she belongs to us. I manage to shove him back and notice that Emma was not talking to Malcom but to me.“Come again” I say.“I could have handled that myself” she shoves me.“No doubt, trouble” I smirk at her because I know that pisses her off.“Huh?” she looks at me in confusion. Memory can be such a fickle thing.“Well what do expect to happen to you
Emma:Of course having a shitty night and tons of alcohol does not even stop the dreams from flooding in and here I am up at 4am. I have a quick shower and head out of the silent dorm because who would be up this early.I head to the gym and see that it is closed, I can’t take it I need to let out all this excess energy so ignore the rules and put my air pods on and strap my phone to my thighs and start to run. I know the route in the back of my head so I close my eyes and continue a head. The only good thing is that the running trail does not go into the forest.A sense of peace settles in me and I let my body do all the work.So caught up running I stumble on something, opening my eyes I see piece of a bloody arm on the ground and I let out a scream into the dead silence thinking that I am in my dream and that the monster is going to come for me next. I shut my eyes in the hopes that I am just imagining things.Someone grabs me and I scream
Cole: There was no way someone can fake their fear like that so that what makes me curious as in what the hell is she? And how did she end up exactly where the body part was when it was so far from the running track and it was obvious what she was doing, I noticed that she ran every day in the mornings. I head back to Ty and Skye and I see Uncle Aiden and some enforcers scanning the area. “Is she okay?” Skye asks and I just nod my head in agreement and bend down to take a look at the arm and the weirdest thing is that the arm has no scent at all, I look towards the ground and look for the leaves that Emma said that she saw the blood on it hoping that maybe we can’t pick up a scent because the limb might be spelled. So I stay low to the ground until I found the leaf with a tiny speck of blood. I bring it to my nose and there is a faint scent on it. “I have a slight scent here” I say and everyone rushes towards me but I stop Skye from grabbing i
Emma:After another shower, I try my best not to focus on the fact that someone actually died on campus and that I was able to find a body part. Am I having some form of visions… my nightmares, are they actually real?The girls take long to wake up and I am so hungry but I don’t want to go to the cafeteria so I decided to cook something.“Damn girl that smells good” Liz states and continues to stare at the pot.“This is not healthy girl, you are up early looking like that even after the night we had and here you are cooking. What are you?” Shanny says and drops her head onto the counter top.“A freaking robot!” Lei marches out of our room and plants her ass on the other stool.“No I was hungry!” I say and now I feel bad for disturbing them so early, they probably wanted to sleep in today.“Well, lucky you make meanest pasta ever” Lei says and smiles at me obvious