RykerI won't admit it to her face to boost her ego but I do like her theory about the haters. I finish my dinner and drop her back to our room before going to Alex’s office. I wonder what he needs to talk about. I’m sure that it’s not about the dispute I just had with Nicholas.Ethan crosses my path in the hallway and nods at me with a stern look. I feel like he knows what Alex wants to talk about but I don’t want to ask him as it will give him the impression of me relying on him and trusting him which I absolutely don’t wish to.“Where is Elias?” Ethan asks, breaking the icy silence between us and I realize that he is also coming with me to Alex’s office as he takes right from the lobby.Locked in our room. But I can’t tell him the truth or he will get suspicious because I don’t protect anyone like this and my behavior is kind of overprotective but I don’t care. I want her alive anyhow, I can’t risk her life and fortunately or unfortunately, she is safe in this academy only. With me.

Ryker“You did a good job today. I was worried for the poor soul,” Logan remarks wittily, passing me a bottle of water, and Azura shoots a death glare at him. “No offense, Alpha Elias. I said that because it’s hard to concentrate when your life is in danger,” Logan defends himself but all of us know that he was right either way. Azura hasn’t been holding herself up against me. I had to restrain my strength not to hurt her, and Logan was worried because I had hurt Benjamin last time when he changed our partners in the practice, but he made sure that Nicholas wasn’t against me. “If he keeps getting defeated every time, he is bound to be eliminated in the first round,” Kieran shrugs, spitting his two cents, which no one has asked for.I swear to the Goddess that if I ever found this fucker against me in the practice, I would make sure that I beat his ass because he had been getting on my nerves lately, scolding me to practice harder when I’m already doing better than most of the Alphas

RykerDante presses his lips tightly, lowering his head and sighing nervously. I told him last time not to come again to the Lunar Academy, no matter what, yet he came again unannounced. “Hello, Dante,” Azura says, cutting the icy silence in the room. “Hi, Azura. I…um, sorry, I had no idea that you were here,” my Beta whispers, looking at Azura apologetically.“That was the plan, idiot- not to let anyone know that she is here,” I mutter through gritted teeth.“I’m sorry, Alpha, but you were not picking up the calls or replying to any emails, so I had no other option,” Dante retorts, but shuts his fucking mouth when I shoot him a death glare.“Stop acting like my possessive girlfriend, Dante. I had come here to train, so I was on the field. Am I supposed to leave the training to answer you?” I reprimand him, cocking a brow at him questioningly.He smiles awkwardly, looking between Azura and me, paying no heed to what I’m saying. Azura smiles back at him sweetly, and I glower at her. I

RykerIt frustrates the shit out of me to see her hiding her pain. My wolf howls in pain and sits, pulling a face. He hates that she is shutting us out and not even sharing her true emotions. She hasn’t even grieved her father’s death yet; that fucking asshole didn’t even give her a chance to do so. Unlike my father, hers was very kind and loving. I had met him twice or thrice when he came to meet her on her birthday and attended the graduation ceremony of her daughters. If there was someone whom she loved more than Nicholas, it was her father. Drake would be glad to see his son-in-law’s true face, at least. ‘Don’t mention anything about her father,’ I tell my Beta through the mind link, and he obeys.“I’m going to see the secret tunnel path in the academy. I’ll be back soon but if anything happens, just give me a call and shout for the guards,” I instruct her, changing the topic. It hurts me to see her stoic face as if nothing happened when her whole world had crumbled down. How l

AzuraMy heart thunders when he turns to walk out. Never in my worst dreams, I imagined that the guards who were sent by the principal were not the guards but the men behind my father’s murder.“Did you kill my father?” I spit through clenched teeth.Brad lets out a wicked laugh. “We wish we could but that’s not what you should be thinking right now, little girl. You should be worried if you will be able to take both of us in your little pussy.” My wolf growls and fights me to let her take control and use all our strength to kill those fuckers. I shove her away and control my anger, though I badly want to rip his heart out myself. I have to let them carry to where their leader is. I need to reach that bastard, and his minions are the only way to get to him.“Where do you think you’re going?” Ryker snarls viciously, standing at the door. His brown orbs meet my blue ones, and I immediately regret calling him. I should have waited and faced these bastards by myself. “Step aside, kid. Y