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“They had no syrup for the pancakes this morning,” Ivy tells me, placing a small plastic container on my lap and sitting down on the bench at my side. “But they have Nutella, and in my opinion, that is a good swap.”“The best swap,” I agree. “Thanks for getting these. My legs are not working after training this morning.”Ivy wags her eyebrows at me. “So when you have private training with your soon to be mate… how long does it take to get spicy?”I laugh and cut up my pancakes. “He doesn’t—well, I mean, Atlas is serious about training and seriously frustrated that I still can’t call up darkness.”“I’m sorry, Nyx,” Ivy softly says. I give her a faint nod before eating my pancakes slowly, looking up at the willow tree we are sitting under. This tree must be one of the oldest trees around, judging by its size alone, and no one comes this way. Ivy found this place and suggested we come here for breakfast to get away from the academy dining hall and all the staring since Atlas’ public kiss
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Thanks,” he says, running his hand through his hair as I open the door to the training room. As we walk through the doors together, I nearly run straight into Atlas. Atlas pauses and looks between us, his eyes narrowing before he’s at my side, pulling me by my waist and kissing me deeply with Tobias right at my side. I don’t mistake it as anything but jealousy, but it is a possessive kind of jealousy that I didn’t expect from Atlas. This is so not normal for a fake relationship. Not that I have a ton of experience or anyone to ask.His tongue slides into my mouth, deepening the kiss, his lips pressing harshly onto mine as he takes everything he wants, and I feel that kiss everywhere on my body as he slowly breaks away. His large hands stay around my waist, but he lets me turn, my cheeks burning red as I face Tobias.Tobias looks nothing but furious, his eyes flashing with his wolf, but he doesn’t say a word. Atlas only responds with a low growl that has Tobias reluctantly walking away
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Fingers trace down my cheek and, in my sleepy haze, I grab the hand and snuggle into it before I go dead still in realization. I turn, still holding on to his hand, and look up at Atlas leaning over my bed. With a near scream ripping out my throat, I kick him hard in the stomach, but he is faster than me, dodging my kick and moving back a few steps. “What. The. Fuck. Atlas!”He narrows his eyes at me. “I need you to get dressed and come with me. Now.”I look at my phone, seeing it’s two in the morning. “No. Not without you giving me a damn good reason why you’re in my room.”He simply waits, staring me down. “Atlas.”“There is a party going on, and my brother is there. We need to be there,” he explains, sounding more pissed off by the second. “He wasn’t impressed to find me there alone. We have damage control to work on.”“A party? What, here in the academy?” I ask. He doesn’t answer me, no doubt finding my question annoying, and he goes to my wardrobe. Seeing as personal space isn’t
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So how are classes going?” Tobias asks as he and I mosey along one of the outside balconies. The sprawling castle grounds extend into the distance below us, and even though the air is brisk, the sun is out and shining in full force. Ivy was nowhere to be found when we met up, and I can only hope that Addison hasn’t turned her into some kind of errand girl like she usually does. I’d say that goes outside the bounds of our mentee requirements, but Ivy is too kind to say anything, and after Addison attacking me, neither one of us want to test her again.I chuckle and elbow him playfully. “You sound like my parents.”Tobias grins, laughing. “Now that you mention it, maybe I should start asking to see your report card.”“Checkmate,” I fire back. “We don’t get report cards here.” My smile wavers. “Not that I’m complaining or anything. I don’t need a grade to know that I’m failing.”“Still can’t get the hang of it, huh?” Tobias asks, leaning back against the railing.I shake my head. “I’ve t
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He turns to me, a little surprised, and I realize he must have been deep in thought. “One of the scouts, probably,” he replies. “Charles, if I had to guess.”I can’t fight a smile. “I hope he’s all right. I like that guy.”“Yeah,” Atlas replies, the ghost of a smile on his own face. “I’m not surprised.”I raise my eyebrows. “What’s that supposed to mean?”“Nothing.” Atlas turns to me. “Look, I don’t know what you were taught in your last pack, but I don’t want you running into the fray if something goes wrong out here.”“And here I was planning to charge into battle armed with sticks and rocks,” I quip.“Nyx, I’m serious.”I can’t help but needle him a little. “Yeah, I’m guessing it counts against you if your mentee gets ripped to shreds.“I don’t give a shit about my reputation as a mentor,” Atlas replies abruptly, coming to a complete stop and turning to me. His green eyes are blazing in the low light. “I don’t want you dead.”He lowers his tone, leaning closer to my ear so only I c
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I’m not sure how long I drift away in dreamland, but eventually images start to filter back to me from the darkness along with a dark, midnight scent that relaxes me. It’s hard to tell which of them are real and which of them are just figments of my pain-riddled imagination, but I become aware of movement, and the sensation of someone’s hard and firm body against mine. The grassy ground is a blur, and I can see the faint outlines of trees in the darkness around us. I’m on my back, being carried by a set of strong arms, and although I can hear frantic, muffled voices around me, I’m too woozy to make out what they’re saying. I try to look around, but all I can see before I succumb to the blood and pain is Atlas’ crescent-shaped scar. His eyes like diamonds cutting into my soul and branding me from the inside out.The pain is still there when I come to, but it’s duller than it was before, and the grogginess seems to have lifted. I don’t have any sense of what time it is or where I am, b
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Tatiana, the sour faced school nurse, discharges me the next day on the condition that I don’t do anything too hard on my ribs until the dark magic has a chance to take full effect. That’s fine by me; I’ll be happy if I never have to see another werebear again.I guess it’s almost inevitable that Atlas is on my mind as I walk out of the infirmary, and a part of me is glad not to have seen him because I can’t be this obsessed, or he is going to know from one look at my face. I’ve never been good at hiding my emotions, not ever, and I doubt it would be much different this time. If the Master was really telling the truth, then he spent more than twenty-four hours at my bedside. Is he really that invested in my well-being? He said in the forest that his concern wasn’t about his reputation, so if it wasn’t, then…I come to an abrupt stop in the empty corridor, my heart leaping in my chest. Atlas is leaning against the wall outside the infirmary, his head bowed, and his arms crossed. For a
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“I’m telling you, Master, I’ve never seen anything like it,” Magnus is saying as he paces along the far side of Master Ombres’s office, his arms crossed. “She was lit up like a beacon. It damn near blinded me when I ran into the room.”“And she put one of our best cadets in the infirmary,” Eiriana adds, placing a hand on her hip. She casts a wary look in my direction, and I actually can’t say I blame her. My skin is still glowing a little with a pale white light, but it seems to be fading the more time passes, thank god. Is this what I get for not being able to learn dark magic? Addison’s a bitch, don’t get me wrong, but if I’ve permanently fucked her up, I’m never going to be able to live it down.I groan, putting my head in my hands. What a disaster. And by the looks of it, nobody around here has any idea what’s happened to me. Are they going to kick me out for this? I didn’t mean to do it, but still… What are Ivy and Tobias going to say when they find out?What’s Atlas going to say
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And, as they so regularly do, things move on. Whereas once life at the Institute felt like it moved as well quick, like we were so caught up in the war that we were losing ourselves in the prepare, presently the world appears to have moderated to a slither, and not indeed the significant endeavors to revamp what was misplaced can totally counter it.Not that I’m complaining or anything.I’m standing in the preparing yard in the midst of handfuls of other understudies, and the discuss is crackling with anxious vitality. The surviving educates are standing in front of us, their expressions extending from inquisitive to pleased, and at the head of the line is Ace Ombres, by presently completely recouped from her wounds. The group has diminished altogether, and not fair since we misplaced so numerous individuals. The remains of the Blood Moon Pack have returned to their place to stay to circle the wagons, and the few remaining werebears from Cassius’ armed force have scattered. Without or
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The others yell and growl in understanding, fanning out fair in time to thrust back against another wave of werebear powers. Chart book and I stand side by side, heaving enchantment and tossing up obstructions in an endeavor to bolster the modern strengths. They’ve supported our numbers, but none of them know dull enchantment, and never has that been more agonizingly self-evident than presently, with the werebears down-pouring obscurity down on them from all sides. I observe in frightfulness as one of them tramples my previous packmate, Christopher, whereas another flings Jonas up into the discuss and sends him smashing back to the ground. As for Sebastian and Claire “Claire!” I yell, telekinetically lifting up the werebear that had its jaws bolted onto her flank. She shoots me a see of appreciation as she thrusts once more, with Sebastian joining in. The werebear tries to break my light enchantment with a spell of his claim, and my center falters—just for a part moment, but that’s su
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I observe, shocked, as the werebear pioneer pummels my previous companion to the ground, his claws as sharp as razor edges as he rakes them down Tobias’ body. “Treacherous small worm!”“No!” I yell, and this time it’s no bubble that I make: I unleash a wave of blindingly shinning light, striking Cassius head-on fair as he plans to make the murdering blow. He yells in torment, closing his eyes in time for Map book to hit him with a weaker spell, which sends him tumbling to the distant conclusion of the field.“Nyx,” Map book says, charging over to me in his wolf shape. “Are you okay?”But I don’t react; I’m as of now dropping to my knees next to Tobias, who’s spitting blood, his breathing shallow. The cuts expand from his neck to his hip, and they’re incomprehensibly profound, as well profound to close.“Nyx,” he grates as I touch his shoulder.“Stop,” I tell him. “Don’t attempt to conversation. We require to discover a healer. Atlas…”I turn to see up at my mate, but he’s as of now sh
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All around me is chaos, and Nyx is no place to be found. I had to take off my room to dodge being smashed by the rubble when one of the towers came down, but my crushed living space is the slightest of my issues right presently. Indeed in the fundamental lobby, where most of the weaker Blood Moon wolves are hunkered down in their wolf shapes, clean is down-pouring from the ceiling and the shouts of individuals exterior are sifting in through the thick walls.“This isn’t working,” Addison yells to me from where she’s standing. We’re still in human frame, utilizing our enchantment to keep the fundamental twofold entryways closed as someone— apparently from Tobias’ strike team—tries to impact their way through.“Where are the other Wolf Witches?” I request, inclining to the side as another chunk of shake falls from the ceiling.“Ivy and Charles went out with them to hold off the army,” Addison says, pushing indeed harder with her divider of enchantment. “Where’s Nyx?”“That’s a long stor
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“I know,” I say as they drag me down to the ground and push me toward the doors, which float open on command. “And I’m not going to battle you. But I require to talk to your leader.”“Oh, you will,” the other blessed messenger says. “Raphael will need to know almost this.”“Who’s Raphael?” I inquire, but they don’t answer as they thrust me through the doors and into the glimmering city. It’s emphatically ravishing, with turning, spiraling towers, surging banners, brilliant towers and lavish columns supporting colossal, lovely white buildings. There are other blessed messengers around, but not at all like the werebears in the jail, they don’t yell and insult me as the watches thrust me along. They don’t say anything, instep fair observing from where they float over the ground, as if I’m a curiosity the likes of which they’ve never seen some time recently. I assume I am, in a way.The greatest building at the conclusion of the street is a castle that appears to gleam with its claim fiel
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I’d be lying if I said I knew what I was doing, but when have I ever known what I’m doing? All I’ve ever done is ad lib my way through life, and I’m not around to halt presently. I scramble to get dressed, mindful of Chart book observing me from the bed. He’s likely stressed, and I can’t fault him, but that’s not going to halt me from attempting if it implies sparing our asses.The soul domain resounds with light enchantment. Those were Michael’s correct words some time recently he sent me back. Hell, fair being there supercharged my powers and gave me wings. My enchantment must be what can bridge the crevice. The as it were address presently is whether I’ll be able to utilize it to get over there.“Do you know how to do this?” Map book inquires, as if he’s perusing my intellect. Given that we’re mates, he might exceptionally well be.“Nope,” I say as I drag my boots on. “But I get it the principles… I think.”“Teleportation is following to impossible,” he dissents. “Not indeed the ev
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Nyx shifts back on the bed. “So you’re truly considering this, then?” she inquires. “Taking over as alpha?”“I figure that depends,” I answer, assembly her eyes. “On?”“You,” I tell her. “I’m as it were doing this if I can bring you with me, Nyx. As my alpha female. My mate.”“You mean…” Nyx swallows. “As your mate?” She shakes her head. “Atlas, I don’t see how that’s conceivable. That would cruel making a difference you lead the pack. I’m a dismiss, too—hell, I’m not indeed a unadulterated wolf shifter. I don’t…”But I don’t let her wrap up, inclining forward to hush her with a kiss. She looks my confront as I drag absent, tangling my hands in her long hair. “I don’t care what you are, Nyx,” I tell her. “You’re my mate, and you continuously will be. Either they can acknowledge that…” I kiss her once more. “Or they can rot.”Nyx looks up at me hesitantly. “Do you cruel that?” she inquires in a little voice.“Every word,” I say, and this time when I drag her in for a kiss, I don’t halt
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We wait there for a few more liberal minutes, each of us battling the reality that’s quickly closing in on us. Possibly it’s unavoidable that a take of haziness starts to rise from distant underneath, carrying not a werebear, but a wolf shifter with pale brilliant hide, and fair the locate of him makes my temper go up.“What the hell do you need, Tobias?” I request, moving in front of Nyx to ensure her.Tobias raises a paw in reaction, and in spite of the fact that he doesn’t attempt to move over the boundary, he doesn’t move absent, either.“Stay back,” Nyx says, as of now summoning more light enchantment in her hands.“I’m not here to fight,” Tobias says, calling over the void between us.“Yeah?” She grunts. “This is your definition of ‘coming in peace,’ then?”I snort, a ball of dim enchantment shaping between my palms. I draw my arm back to dispatch it; I’m not in the temperament to arrange, slightest of all with him. “Back the fuck up,” I tell him, in no dubious terms, “or I swea
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Gradually, stiffly, I permit the bubble of light enchantment I’ve made to get past the obstruction to break up around me as we develop onto the Academy’s side of the charm. I’m holding on to Map book so firmly that I’m nearly perplexed to let go, so sincerely and physically depleted from the sprint that the fatigue debilitates to overwhelm me.No, I tell myself as the final of the enchantment scatters, clearing out me a shell of the individual I was when I woke up this morning. Have to center. Get to the Foundation. We’re not out of the woods yet.I don’t set out see back as we shoot ahead, dropping back to the soil when it gets to be clear the werebears are bottlenecking at the point where the boundary begins. I can’t bring myself to think around what’s happening to the ones we cleared out behind. It doesn’t matter what else they were; they were still werewolves, and Allow was among them. Map book is quiet underneath me, but I can feel the feelings pouring off of him: pain, lament, dis
