Avery’s pov

I felt a harsh tug, and a loud car horn as it sped close to me. It’s only when a stranger yells. “What the hell were you thinking!?” Did I realize I had been in the middle of the road, staring into the distance where he drove away.

I looked at the stranger who helped me out of harm’s way and gave an awkward smile. “Thank you.”

His brows pinched and his lips lined. “Do you have a death wish girl?” He let me go, nervously looking at the road and me as if I would step on into the traffic any second now.

Death wish?

I shook my head, told him thank you again and rush to the dorm building. As I move through the building to my room I cannot help but replay the moment I had with Xade not just ten minutes ago.

His bleeding nose. His eyes, they had changed. I know they had. They were strange. A very strange color. And wild. Beast like. Animal like. Wolf…like.

A shiver race up my spine at the memory, goosebumps rising on my skin. He seemed more animal than human, but even so….I had not been afraid. His aura was calming, his touch was, home.

But his words, why did they feel as if he was telling me goodbye?

Why did it feel as if that kiss had been our last?

Our last taste?

Our last feel?

hurt. I don’t understand. The mystery around him was growing and it wasn’t getting easier to crack the code. As I reach the room, it’s empty no sight of Melissa who had gone from my friend to a foe. I couldn’t

me. My mom. She answered on the second ring, her

turned on my back, staring up at the ceiling as

in the boy’s dorm. I didn’t think he’d go back to the gym

happily. “If I’m breathing heavily in

Mom and her gardens. “How have you been Mom? It’s

she replied. “I’ve

soft and frail which mom picked up on instantly. A lump grows in

wrong?” She questioned urgently. “What’s on

avoid her questioning, not when she knew me best more than anyone else. “Mom,” I whispered, chewing on my lower lip and then releasing it when I am about to speak. “There’s this

God, not

giggled. “He’s different,” my brows furrowed.

hesitated as Mom waited for me to elaborate. “He-how did you know dad was

like home,” Mom replied without a pause in her words. “He was my

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