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Voices echoed down the hallway.Fast. Sharp. Too close.Eden froze. Her fingers gripped Kael’s chest, nails digging into his skin as his head snapped up.He moved like instinct. Pulling the covers higher. Tucking her under him. His body shielded hers in the darkness.A knock slammed against a nearby door. Not theirs.Still, her heart thundered.“I have to go,” she whispered, breath shaky, mind fogged from everything they had just done.Kael didn’t answer right away. His jaw clenched. He looked like a man at war with himself.“I’ll take you,” he said, already rising from the bed.“No. It’ll look worse if we’re seen together.”His stare darkened. “I don’t like the thought of you walking across that campus alone. Not after what just happened.”Her eyes softened. “I’ll be fine. It’s late. No one’s watching.”Kael stood completely, the room dim and filled with the scent of them. Her legs still trembled from how close they had come to losing control.He walked to his dresser and pulled out

Kael watched her.The way her thighs pressed together. The way her breath stayed shallow. The way her pupils still looked blown wide, her lips parted like she was waiting for more.He had not even taken her.And still, she was ruined.His thumb brushed her lower lip again, slow, teasing. Her mouth was warm. Still trembling from the way he whispered filth into it. Still wet from his kiss.“You’re going to remember this,” he said quietly. “When you’re alone. When you try to sleep. You’ll remember my fingers inside you. My voice in your ear.”Eden’s eyes fluttered shut.“I won’t let you forget,” he added.He shifted, sliding lower on the bed. His lips brushed her inner thigh, featherlight, just above the place where her skin still pulsed with sensitivity.“Look at me,” Kael ordered.She obeyed. Barely. Her body didn’t want to move. It only wanted to feel.“Touch yourself,” he said. “Just one finger. Show me what I did to you.”Her eyes widened.Kael tilted his head. Waiting.Eden’s hand

Her silence was louder than anything she could have said.He lifted her with ease, her legs wrapping around his waist, his mouth back on hers, more desperate than before. She gasped as his hands roamed, not gentle, not polite. He was claiming. Possessing. Marking.And she let him.She needed it.The wall was cold at her back, but his body was fire. His mouth moved to her neck, to her collarbone, pulling soft sounds from her lips she had never made before. She felt like she was unraveling, inch by inch, and the only hands holding her together were his.He paused.His breath was heavy.His mouth near her ear.“I can smell it on you,” he growled. “You dreamed of me.”Her eyes widened.“You don’t know what I am, Eden,” he said, voice shaking. “You don’t understand what happens if I lose control.”She looked straight at him.“Then lose it.”Kael carried her across the room like he’d done it a hundred times in his head. His grip was firm on her thighs, but his mouth was soft on hers. Contro

The morning light crept through the slits in the curtain, soft and golden, far too gentle for the chaos still storming in her chest.Eden blinked. The ceiling above her wasn’t the one from the academy bathroom. It was white with faint cracks and a glow-in-the-dark star barely clinging to the plaster. Her breath hitched as she sat up slowly, her fingers trembling as they brushed her chest.Kael’s shirt clung to her skin.It smelled like him. That sharp, masculine scent wrapped in something darker. She could still feel the weight of his gaze, the heat of his hands, the ghost of his voice whispering against her ear.But her dorm room was silent.No sign of him. No steam. No water pooling at her feet.Only the relentless pounding in her chest and the taste of him still on her lips.Her roommate was gone. The other bed remained neatly made, untouched. Eden swung her legs off the mattress and touched her toes to the floor. Cold.The bathroom. The kiss. The way his mouth had devoured her lik

Kael sat in the dark, the glow from the monitors casting a cold blue across his face. One hand rested on the desk. The other held a remote. He hit a button. The screen flickered. There she was. Eden. Sitting in class. Head tilted as she took notes. Innocent. Focused. He stared. His jaw clenched. His eyes didn't blink. She didn't know how much he watched her. He had cameras in every hallway. Every classroom. Even her favorite library corner. He didn't need them. He wanted them. He watched the way she tucked her hair behind her ear. The way her legs crossed when she sat. The way she bit the end of her pen when she was thinking too hard. He watched every little thing. And it drove him insane. She was too soft for this place. Too untouched. Too unaware of the hunger she stirred. The wolf inside him paced. Pushed. Wanted out. He leaned closer to the screen, voice low. "You don't even know what you do to me." His eyes darkened as the footage switched to the bathroom camera.

Kael watched the camera feed again. Eden. Walking fast across the courtyard. Looking down. Always looking down. Like she thought hiding her eyes could hide the heat in her body. Like he could not smell her confusion from a mile away. He leaned back in his chair. The leather creaked. She had been avoiding him. Since the last time. Since he told her she was his. But he felt her everywhere. Her scent clung to the walls of the hallway. Her heartbeat echoed in his ears even now. She was in his bones. He clenched his jaw and opened the second drawer of his desk. Inside, a photo. Her student ID. It had been left behind once. He never gave it back. Kael ran a thumb over the picture. She looked so sweet. So innocent. But he had seen what lived in her eyes when no one was watching. Curiosity. Fire. Need. She tried to hide it behind straight posture and quiet words, but he had tasted that kind of hunger before. Hers was untouched. Raw. Meant for only one man. Meant for him. He st