CHAPTER 2

NYX

My head felt like an entire kingdom had been placed on it.

I hadn’t meant to look at him. I hadn’t even planned to stop. But the second his eyes narrowed, his head tilting just slightly like he was trying to sniff me out, my heart nearly exploded.

"W... what scent?" My voice trembled.

He didn’t answer, but his gaze dropped to my neck, I should’ve waited, should’ve stayed calm, but my body moved faster than my mind.

My hand stretched out and shoved him backwards, away from me.

Gasps rippled through the hallway as he stumbled back. I didn’t look. I turned and ran.

The crowd parted, or maybe I pushed through them. I couldn’t tell. My legs hurt as I passed door after door throughthe hallway, it wasn't mine but it had a restroom sign on it.

I shoved it open and slammed it shut behind me. A bolt clicked in place and My heart rate dropped, everything in me kept spiraling. I forced air through my lungs, packing back and forth through the rest room big space that contained lots of hand washers.

"Shit... Shit!"

My chest rose and fell in frantic spikes, heart hammering too hard.

My scent. Panic snapped inside me as I lifted my wrist to my nose. And there it was, while it was still there, I could tell it was faint.

The blocker had faded, I face palmed myself. How the hell could I forget Dad had mentioned it lasting for only two hours?

I ignored the voice in my head that mentally cursed me and grabbed the vial from my jacket pocket. The second I pulled it out, cold dread filled my gut.

The liquid tickled down my thin fingers, it had cracked.

"Oh goddess..." My knees hit the floor before I could stop it. Dad had given me limited supply, that glass was supposed to last me a week, and now I was one week short.

Anger flared in my fingertips, that asshole had shoved me hard into the wall. The impact must’ve crushed it.

I applied what I could, it wasn't enough, I knew that. But the idea of leaving the safety of this restroom didn't exactly sound enticing to me.

My eyes bugged the second a knock came on the locked restroom door.

I flinched instantly, what if it was them? My heart sank. No, it couldn't be. I inhale and exhaled, wiping the left over scent blocker over my hoodie before opening the door.

An older woman dressed in a navy suit stood there.

Her eyes quirked up, "Lucian Bernard?"

I nodded, wondering who she was.

She glanced at the rest room behind me. Her nose twitched, I could tell she wondered why I had locked the door

"There’s been a change in your dorm. You’re being relocated."

My stomach turned. "What? Why?"

She raised a brow. I cleared my throat and deepened my voice. "Why?."

"You’re being transferred to an elite suite."

Elite? My skin burned, that meant an even. Better dorm, but that also meant it would house more than two people. I couldn't afford to have a roommate, not now at least, what if I slipped in one way or another?

"I like it in my dorm," I cleared my throat, trying to sound confident. An alpha makes demands.

She forced a smile. "Well that's sad, news came to transfer you, and you have no say in it. You have ten minutes. Pack."

News? What type of news? I wanted to ask but I knew better. She always turned and walked back to my dorm, everything in me itched for me to scream, but I couldn't. This was not how I imagined my first day going.

***

I had packed everything I brought, thank the goddess I had just arrived so packing wasn't hard. The halls she led me through weren’t the same. This wing was different. It was cleaner and had glowing mage lights instead of electric ones.

Finally, we stopped in front of a massive double-door. She knocked once, then looked at me with that same fake smile.

"They’re not the friendly type. If they say bark, you bark. Got it, rosy cheeks?"

They? I wanted to ask but she turned and walked away, oh goddess, I was going to die before I got to save anyone.

I counted ten in my head before the double door opened wide, my gaze coming in contact with a bare chest first, looking up, I met his face.

No. I froze.

It was him. One of the boys beside the monster I had pushed earlier. From the cafeteria.

My brows furrowed as I glared at him, he had a smirk on his face that told me he wasn't surprised one bit that I was here.

"Come in, little hands. Welcome home." The guy said, his tone filled with amusement.

I shook my head. "I think I’m lost. I’ll just go back—"

He grabbed my waist before I could move away and yanked me inside.

My eyes widened, blood rushing into my skull like I just realized what had happened, my hand went to his hand on me punching at it as I wiggled to get free, "Let go of me, dammit!"

He ignored my tantrum like none of my punching hurt, the door I had been dragged in from slammed shut behind me.

"Easy, Caleb" a voice said lazily. My eyes went to where it came from, one of the guy's sat on a chair near the king sized bed, his attention on a computer as he typed words into it. "Don’t break him. Not before we've had our fun."

My throat dried up. I jerked out of the first guy’s grip the second he was distracted, Caleb, the lazy one had called him.

My heart pounded. if these two were here, then it meant one thing, it was remaining one. The main one. My eyes darted across the room with fear, it was clear. Maybe he wasn’t here.

My eyes met a door at the other end of the room, it had to be an escape door, Caleb must have realized my plan because he looked towards the door too and a smirk appeared at the corner of his lips but he didn't try to stop me.

Jerking away from him, I ran towards the door, in seconds, it clicked open and I ran headfirst into a wall of dripping, wet, rock-hard abs.

I bounced off with a grunt, landing on my ass.

My head blurred, my sight coming back in one piece a second later, everything in me went to a stop when my eyes met a towel covered waist first, the towel on his hips shifted slightly.

Laughter radiated behind me, and slowly, my head went up to the guy who stood before me. And everything in me dried up.

"Aiden," Xi drawled. "You’re late. Your puppy nearly ran."

My stomach sank.

The purple-eyed devil stared down at me, water dripping from his hair, skin glowing with heat and steam. He was the one I had run into, the one I had pushed.

I was going to die.

His eyes burning into mine had a glint of amusement in them, one I didn't see earlier at the cafeteria. "Running already? We just got started, Little Kitten?"

I tried to move, but for some reason, my body remained still.

He knelt, slow and lethal, until his face was level with mine.

"Let’s play a game. You tell me what you are. Or I find out myself."

His gaze dropped to my lips and my heart stopped, then slowly. His eyes went to my pants. .

"And trust me, sunshine," he whispered, trailing his eyes back to meet mine. The anger from the cafeteria now blazing sharp in his eyes. "You don't want to go for the second option."