Novels by godwinagbaze0

Daniela stood in the courtyard, watching the students gradually make their way through the gates. It was that time of the month when Westmoore granted its students their monthly leave, and she still could not believe how much had happened in the short time since she arrived.It had only been a month.Yet somehow, it felt like a lifetime.Not long ago, she had stood in this same courtyard and watched Alpha Ashbourne leave with an unconscious Liam. The Commandant had escorted him out, but every few seconds, Ashbourne kept turning his head as though he were searching the crowd for someone.It was not her.Daniela knew that because he had already seen her.He had been looking for someone else.As more students passed through the massive gates, Daniela slowly looked around the courtyard. Weeks ago, she had entered Westmoore alongside Frank.Now she would be leaving alone.She had made up her mind.She knew leaving would hurt people, especially the ones who had started to care about her, bu

There had always been something strange about the feelings that came over Nico whenever Hellcat was around. He could trace the beginning back to the moment she had walked into the Greenhouse and hidden behind the overturned desk.Someone had disturbed his peace.At first, he had no idea what was happening to him. He only knew that every encounter with her seemed to leave something behind. Every argument, every irritating exchange, every morning when he woke up and found her looking back at him, his heart would give an unexpected leap.It had been easy to ignore at first.Then it became impossible.He had tried to push the feelings aside. He had tried to build more walls around himself, convince himself that Hellcat was nothing more than an annoying roommate, and get her out of his thoughts. Somehow, the more he tried, the more curious he became.Where was she?Who was she with?What was she doing?He wanted to know things he had never cared about before.Then came the night of the Ash

It was only a few minutes until curfew, and Daniela was almost at her dorm room. She could already picture Nico’s infamous glare the moment she walked through the door. If she did not have to sleep in the same room as him, she probably would not have bothered coming back tonight.She reached the hallway leading to her room when the door suddenly flew open.Tobias came tumbling out.He landed on his feet after stumbling a few steps, then immediately burst into laughter as he looked back at the person standing behind the doorway.The door slammed shut.Tobias straightened himself, still snickering about whatever had just happened. Then he noticed Daniela approaching, and the amusement on his face immediately turned into a wicked grin.“Well damn, Thaddeus, you have my respect for turning Nico gay!”Daniela’s entire face flushed.She hurried past him and slipped into the room before he could say anything else.The door closed behind her, and she immediately pressed her forehead against i

Nico looked like a man preparing to confront the greatest enemy of his life.It wasn’t Kieran, Charles, or any student at the academy.It was much worse.A romance novel he had borrowed from the library several hours ago.He sat on the edge of his bed with a small pink and gold paperback held between his fingers as though the book might suddenly bite him. His brows were drawn together so tightly they nearly touched, and every few seconds, he narrowed his eyes at a sentence, trying to figure out what the author expected him to understand.His lips parted, his expression twisting with genuine horror.“Why is he staring at her ’like she hung the moon’” He muttered under his breath, “What the hell does that even - why would anyone stare at someone like that? Why are there so many feelings in this thing?”He sounded completely baffled as he reluctantly turned another page.“Isn’t he just supposed to say what he wants? What’s with all the confusion and overthinking a hug for three pages?”N

“I know it is,” he said quietly. “You have the exact same look on your face whenever you think about him,” He murmured, then swiped off a tear that had escaped her eyes. “I wish you’d have half of that look in your eyes when you think of me,”Daniela stared at him.She could see the desire in his eyes, and it pulled at something inside her that she had been trying desperately to ignore. She was drawn to him, to his presence, his strength, and the way he looked at her as though she was the only person in the world that mattered.For a moment, being with him felt like the easiest thing she could choose.But life was rarely that simple.Sometimes there were things you wanted more than anything, yet the circumstances around you made it impossible to have them.“Professor…, we can’t,”“Kieran,” He corrected, then sucked in a sharp breath. “What can’t we?”“We can’t…be this,” She gestured at both of them. “We shouldn’t,”“Why?”“Because I can’t, okay? I’ve got bigger problems,”“That’s not

Celeste shook his head. “I don’t know. That’s not what I’m saying… maybe. All I know is that the pendant responds to you, in ways that make it… unstable. And if the pendant falters, then everything it holds back could escape,”Daniela’s thoughts raced as she tried to make sense of what he was telling her. “So… you keep the Veil from breaking, but I… I make it… react?”Celeste remained silent for a moment, as though he was trying to find the right words.“Something like that,” he murmured. “I’ve never seen it behave the way it did last night. I don’t understand it completely… and I don’t know if anyone can. But you… you affect it,”Daniela’s pulse quickened. She had never imagined that she could be connected to anything this important, yet somehow, she was already at the center of something far bigger than she could understand. The more she learned, the more she realized that her presence at Westmoore might not have been a coincidence after all.And then there was Celeste.The quiet, u