Chapter 271 Emergency At The School

Lila’s POV

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“They found somebody dead?” I asked in a h oar se whisper, turning to face Enzo who had a grave look on his face. I knew from his face alone that it was true and suddenly my heart hurt. I had to leari against him. to support the weight of my body before I completely fell over.

I felt dizzy, like I wanted to pass out at any moment and my breathing became incredibly shallow.

Enzo didn’t answer me at first; he only looked beyond the area and at the many police cars that were parked in the lot, along with the ambulance.

“Like a student?” I continued to ask, staring at him still and unable to look away..

“Yes; a student,” he finally answered, audibly swallowing

“Who?”

I wasn’t sure I wanted to know the answer, but the knot in my stomach wasn’t going to leave this alone.

“I’m not sure,” he said shaking his head. “I should have reported it sooner.”

“You knew about it?” I asked, furrowing my brows together.

I stepped out of his strong embrace and peered up at him.

“I smelled something off earlier,” he admitted, meeting my eyes. “It smelled like rotting flesh; it was disgusting. Made me nearly throw up. But the scent faded after a little while.”

“What made it fade?”

“I don’t know..” he said, and the look on his face, I knew he was telling me the truth. “But it was after I saw

His voice faded suddenly.

“After you saw what?” I pressed.

He met my eyes again and I saw that he was struggling with this next sentence; my stomach clenched at the very thought of what he was about to say.

“It was after I saw Rachel.”

I gasped at his words and stepped even further away as if he had just slapped me across the face.

“You think she did this?”

“I didn’t say that,” he said quickly.

“You didn’t have to. I can see it on your face,” I said, getting a bit worked up.

He grabbed my arms and held me in place, forcing me to look at him.

that,” he said much slower as he

felt my body calming

his words from earlier during class.

you’ve noticed it too,” he said in return,

we know how this

looking back at the police who were speaking to a very distraught

grim at what the police were saying. Moments later the EMTs were emerging from the main doors of the academic center and carrying a stretcher. Whoever was on the stretcher was covered with a blanket and shielded from onlookers. There were a

get sick. I was about to get sick as well and I needed to bury my face in Enzo’s

wrapped his arms around me and held me tightly; not wanting

they were saying, I didn’t want to hear what they were saying. I purposely blocked them out, but I knew Enzo was listening of the

death?” I

onto my

I don’t think you should know

I said, much more

but remained

not sure what I was doing or why I wanted to know

was drained of her blood and suffered some heavy force to her

I felt some sort of relief from hearing it. If she was drained from her blood, then the likelihood of Rachel doing that was slim. She was a bear; they weren’t bloodsuckers or particularly violent like that. I don’t think she would have

The thought was sickening.

have been Rachel,” I murmured. “She wouldn’t have done

not,” he agreed. “Sounds like

at him with a gaping mouth, my heart nearly beating out of my

“A vampire?”

from

breathed, unable to contain the tears any longer. They flowed down my features, and I let out a small s ob.

Enzo said calmly.

but if one vampire did this, then everybody is going to stereotype them.” I told him. “It’s not

say something more, but then we

All students need to return to their dorms as

talk to Headmaster Prescott; I started to numbly move in her direction, but Enzo grabbed my

for me,”

face quickly shut me up. I watched as he walked over to

student needs to be investigated,” I heard Alpha Jonathan saying to the officer; the officer was part of his pack, so

as we speak and once we gather enough,

the wretched vampires,” Alpha Jonathan seethed, making

Prescott said calmly, clearly trying to keep herself calm. “There are a lot of

drained,” Jonathan hissed. “We

down at his notes with a timid frown. “But it seemed as if

A wolf did this?”

began to say but

your help getting students back to their dorms safely. Whoever did this, is

head. “I just wanted to see if there was anything else I could do to help

his notes. “We are going to spend the night investigating and then pull students in for questioning. I

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