A Beauty In An All-Male Alpha Academy

Chapter 13: Fate?

Chapter 13.

Kaito stood there with his eyes fixed on the body lying still on the floor. It was Angel. His chest tightened just watching him like that. He couldn’t tell what was so fun about any of this. Usually, they all jumped into Hiro’s mind games, helped stir the madness and pushed the victim over the edge... but today felt different. He didn’t join. Taros didn’t either.

Only Renn was inside with him. And Angel?

He kept twitching, his body reacting like he was being burned from the inside. His hands moved to his back over and over again, like he was trying to reach a wound no one else could see.

Kaito hated this feeling of helplessness. He wished he could see what was happening in that twisted world, but Hiro had locked him out. That was the rule...no entry if you refused to play.

So he stood still, his hands clenched at his sides, jaw tight. He didn’t want to interfere. But something felt wrong.

"How the hell did Angel manage to piss Hiro off this bad?" Taros asked from beside him. He was trying to act normal, but his voice gave him away.

Kaito let out a breath. "I don’t know, man. I thought Angel would calm down after what happened with Renn at the cafeteria. Guess I was wrong."

"You think this is fate?" Taros asked suddenly, like it had been sitting on his chest for a while. "Meeting all four of us in one day? That doesn’t happen. Not by chance."

"Fate?" Kaito muttered with a slight shake of his head. He leaned back in his seat, arms crossed. "Angel is just stubborn and reckless. He doesn’t think things through. He’s messing up everything."

"It’s fate, Kaito," Taros said, not backing down. "I really believe it is."

Kaito gave a half-smile, one that didn’t reach his eyes. "Let’s hope it’s not," he said and turned away, eyes falling back to Angel’s body lying still on the ground. A sinking feeling hit his chest. Something didn’t feel right. He sniffed the air, and his frown deepened. "Wait, is..."

"That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you," Taros said. "It’s fa—"

"No. Not fate." Kaito cut him off sharply. "I mean literally. Look at him. He’s bleeding."

closely now. "You think Hiro’s

His mind was wrapped in the world

might not be Hiro," Taros said, glancing at Renn. "Look at Renn. His eyes are gone white.

tightened. "We need to stop

in. We need to know what’s going on

even in that limp state. Kaito felt it again, that twist in his gut.

back, shaking his head. "He said no. Said we’d ruin

tapping against the armrest, faster with

did he start

"Kaitooooo!"

and urgent, echoing in his head with a force that made his heart stop

chest rising and falling. Across the room, Hiro stood too. The message had reached him

Kaito breathed, the name barely leaving his

was happening to him. Every time Angel got hurt, something inside him twisted and burned. He hated how it made him

game," Kaito said, his voice

what was happening in that other world, but they could tell from Kaito’s face that something

nudged Renn, snapping him out of the trance. Renn’s

to stop the

that now?" Renn asked, irritated. He

all this time? They’d done this kind of thing before, pushed people to the

is hurt. I can feel it," Kaito said, his voice a

filled his glass with wine. Renn took a sip, calm and collected, like this was just another boring afternoon. "Why are

at Angel’s still body. His chest

said, gesturing to Taros. "Let him

me into this," Taros stood up, his face tense. "This wasn’t my plan. If something

when did we start doing things this way, brothers?" Hiro added, still