"I can't let you go until you can control yourself again" Balthazar replied in his calm voice.I growled again, but now it was because of my frustration. My Leykan's vicious side wanted to tear Balthazar's mouth out, but the bit of rational inside me knew I didn't want to and wouldn't do it. It feels like there are two different thoughts inhabiting my body right now. The shackles on my body became heavier and heavier until my knees ached from rubbing against the rough asphalt beneath me, small sharp pebbles also began to rip my skin.Balthazar's two odd violet eyes still stared at me without blinking, perhaps at this moment my own eyes also seemed to have changed. Not my power, Leykan Balthazar's power is silent but deadly. No wind or fog came around us, everything looked normal and ... still. The silence almost deafens me."If you want to release your anger, do it now so you feel more relieved," he continued."How can I release my anger if you hold me like this" I retorted with a sha

Balthazar was still trying to pressure me into telling him everything Dimitri did and said that night. No matter how much I try to convince him, he still suspects I haven't said everything. Of course I couldn't tell him about our meeting plans for Friday. The only way to distract him from Dimitri was to press him back to tell him everything he knew about Alex. But unfortunately not much different fromme, Balthazar himself knows very little about the continuation of Alex's case. So you could say he's just as undressed as me.For the next three days He disappeared every morning and night before our bedtime. It seems he started to patrol along the forest that surrounds this castle, and of course I pretended not to notice his new activities even though every night I was still awake until I heard the sound of the castle's back door opening then closing again. I tried to memorize every time what time he came home from his patrol every night.The only drastic change from Balthazar after know

"Balthazar?" called me in horror. He stepped out from the side Dimitri had been staring at, his angry smile on me. He wasn't wearing pajamas, but a thick black jacket and matching pants. It seems he knew I was gone from the start ..."Don't move from where you are," he threatened suddenly before turning to Dimitri, still wearing his angry smile. "Haven't you guys ever been taught manners? You and Viktor have no manners either, have you."Dimitri certainly looked tensed, but the expression on his face was calm at the moment. "Sorry, my current situation doesn't give me the freedom to be polite," he replied in a low voice. I don't know if what he said was just sarcasm or real.Balthazar walked next to me, his body did look relaxed but the domineering aura emanating from him at this moment made me want to stay away from him. "So what's the pay, Dimitri?"I stared at Dimitri too, his different colored eyes looking expressionlessly at Balthazar. "You have nothing to do in this matter," he

Vincent's warning kept ringing in my head until Balthazar decided to stop the training because I couldn't concentrate. I still feel irritated by her words because I think of all people, she is the one who understands my reasoning the best."Do I look that weak?!" I grumbled angrily as I followed him up the stairs to the third floor. Balthazar didn't answer me, so I continued my grumbling again. "He thought I was going to fall in love with Dimitri that easily. After all, he himself supported Alex and his plan to pretend to leave me!"This time Balthazar responded to me with a sigh."Even though he really hated Alex before." I clenched my fists tightly, still following Balthazar through the hall to his library."Maybe he thinks Alex is much better than Dimitri Stratovsky" Balthazar replied calmly.glared at him and furrowed my brows. "Didn't I say I would never fall in love with Dimitri? Didn't anyone hear what I said when I said it?"Balthazar stopped holding the doorknob and turned to

"Stop it, Caroline," Balthazar scolded in a commanding voice. Instantly all my strength disappeared and the tense atmosphere around us gradually returned to normal. I looked up at him slightly confused due to my Leykan power following Balthazar's orders more easily than my own.Dimitri slumped to the grass below, out of breath, while Alex managed to get back up, albeit with a sore frown."You mean to kill them?" Balthazar's jerk brought my attention back to him. He still looks angry."No! Of course not," I said defensively. "I can't control-"Use!My body fell hit by Alex who suddenly ran towards me. My back hit the grass and dirt of the yard pretty hard, but Alex's hand shielded my head from the impact. All my breath was blown out of my lungs as Alex's heavy body pressed against me. The smell of sweat and pine and a hint of mud wafted from his hot, hard, muscular body."Al- Alex, I can't breathe." My whisper was met with a muffled growl as he buried his face in the nape of my neck an