"His eyes darkened in a way I'd never seen before."

I barely had time to fold the mysterious warning and tuck it away before Darius came for me like a storm breaking over the Academy's ancient walls.

The corridor emptied as if every other student had felt the tempest approaching-conversations died mid-sentence, footsteps quickened toward distant doorways, and even the boldest wolves found sudden urgent business elsewhere. The very air seemed to thicken with supernatural tension as his ...