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SERAPHINA

The Academy wasrger than it seemed from the outside, an endlessbyrinth of halls, training grounds, btowers/bb, /bband /bweapon chambers carved binto /bancient stone and reinforced with modern steel. I bhad /bspent almost an hour showing Ryker around. guiding him through each floor with practiced words band /bclipped exnations.

Yet for all my efforts, the silence behind me remained heavy and unnerving.

He hadn’t said ba /bword.

Not even a grunt of acknowledgement.

I close. His boots silent despite their weight,

uld feel his constant presence. bAlways /bba /bfew steps behind. Close, but nevert his gaze a phantom heat I couldn’t shake.

It wasn’t the Academy bhe /bwas watching.

It was me. I could feel it and it had me and my wolf restless deep in our heart.

If Ronan and Ryker had not gotten so close to each other to the point where they were close to ripping each other’s bthroats /bout. I would never have agreed to this. I just did not want a fight bto /bbreak out because of me, it would attract too much attention. However, I never considered that this tour was going to be this nerve wracking.

His aura was enough for me to realize that he was someone that I should not mingle with. He was dangerous.

His silence wasn’t from disinterest, it was deliberate. Measured. Observant.

Predatory.

Every time I turned ba /bcorner or climbed a stairwell, I could feel his eyes following the curve of my back, bthe /bsway of my hips. the tension in my shoulders. It made my skin crawl beneath the fabric of my uniform. I had been moving carefully, my strides and voice like a man but still the ufortable feeling kept rising in my chest. Now I just cursed the fact that Lupine Academy bwas /bso damnrge.

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When we finally reached bthe /bfar end of the western corridor, I stopped and gestured to the high–arched entry that split restricted bpaths/b.

“This is where the tour ends,” I said, keeping my toneposed. “From here begins the Hierarchy Dorms that you must bknow /bby now since your room is located there, Alpha instructor’s offices, the strategymand halls…and many ces that I am not aware of and I’m not allowed to ess.”

I’m

His blue eyes stared at, me quietly with a strange silence that tightened my muscles. It was almost as if he had been waiting for me to bsay /bsomething else.

I didn’t wait for him to respond, I turned slightly, ready to excuse bmyself/b.

Until he lifted a bhand /band pointed.

“bWhat /babout that door, he said simply. The first words he’d spoken bsince /bbwe /bstarted

I followed his bfinger/b. Therge wooden door to the side.

My bstomach /btwisted.

“The music room?” I asked before I could stop myself.

“Show me that room,” he stated:

My bhands /bshook slightly beside me I noticed that music room one day. It was out of ce in an academy where the bAlphas /bminds were filled with tight, trials, war and winning a soundproofed chamber filled with instruments that almost no bone /b

I always avoided even ncing at this room because. “It’s just a music room,” I bstated/bb. /b

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He stared at me once again but this time it felt like he was studying me, “You hate music?”

1 secretly clenched my pants. He bread /bme.

A dull ache formed in my chest, unwee and all too familiar.

It was the only space here bthat /bheld softness. Memory. Melody. Her. My mother.

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My mother was a perfect luna. A mate, a mother and a warrior. So of course she loved music. She used to y piano for me and my father loved that part of her. He used to link her musical talents with that of a woman’s perfection.

But after she died, my father started forcing me to learn the piano instead of paying attention tobat and fighting. For him fighting was just a part of the life of a woman, bthat /bit was enough to learn self defense and that was it. But my dream was different, biggerb, /bfor bthat /bhe actually called me a rebel. When I did not obey him, he burnt down bthe /bmusic room bout /bof anger..I treasured that bmusic /broom; it was thergest physical representation of my mother’s memory that she left behind.

That was the moment I had experienced another big loss in my blife/b. bFrom /bbthat /bday onward I bhad /bcut bmusic /bor anything rted to it from my life. But now.it could not be avoided. I wanted to end this tour quickly.

“Why bwould /bI hate it?” I met his gaze without any emotions and turned to the door. “This way,” I muttered, pushing the door open and bstepping /binside.

The room was dim, bathed in silver light from the tall stained–ss window behind the grand piano, Dust clung to the corners. The cello stood untouched, violins still strung but forgotten. A harp sat like a ghost in the corner.

“There’s not much here,” I said, turning slightly to nce at Ryker. “Just instruments. The Academy doesn’t exactly-

Click

The sound sliced through my spine.

My head snapped toward the door just as I heard the soft snick of the lock sliding into ce. Did he just lock the door?

“What do you think you’re bdoing/b?” bI /basked sharply, taking a step back from the piano.

He didn’t reply.

He just started walking

Slow. Measured.

Like a predator closing in on prey. My wolf grew alert in my at the bsame /btime a panic rose in my chest with his sudden

shifting aura.

Has eyes were darker now, something unreadable brewing behind them.

something bgoing /bon between byou /band Ronanb?/b” he asked, voice low, silk bwrapped /bbaround /bsteel.

My breath lutched for a fraction of a second, but I masked it with a

I started to binstinctively /bback away, my bpulse /bdrumming

Ryker’s lips curved into a smile. “So there’s nothing?”

my veins. “Who the hell are you to

bre/bb. /b“What nonsense bare /byou btalking /babout?!”

me such question ?? think I’ll cower bunder /bthese creepy actions of yours? Just take bone /bstep closer band /bI swear, I’ll rip your

you

Before I could fish, its alink he was suddenly there Right in front of me.

His hand wrapped around my waist with a grip that made my breath freeze. His speed wasn’t normal, not even by Alpha standards No sound. No warning

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“You better not be lying. he murmured, his breath brushing against my cheek. “or I might really be disappointed.”

I stared at him stunned, furious, locked in ce by the darkness flickering behind his smile.

Then-

CRASH.

The window behind me shattered binto /ba thousand sparkling shards, the cold air rushing in like a storm.

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Before I could understand anything or move, a bpair /bof strong hands wrapped around my arms and yanked me back, out of Ryker’s grasp, right binto /bthe solid wall of another body.

bMy /bheart thundered in my throat.

Then I smelled him.

Ronan.

His arm banded across my chest, keeping me pressed against him as he faced Ryker with a re so sharp it could have cut ss.

“Then it’s time for you to be disappointed,” Ronan bgrowled/b, responding to Ryker, his voice a thunderous promise, “because I already have a thing for him,” he dered.

My heart skipped a beat..

What did he just say?