Nobela ni Gemma Adams

There was a strange atmosphere when I arrived at the university. It seemed eerily quiet, and it just added to the terror I felt inside. There were only a few people sitting around the planters outside and there was no sign of what I had realised was the pack. I slipped inside the main doors and went straight to my first lecture of the day. It was with the same professor as the day before, Professor Flint, and I knew he wouldn't take it well if I was late again.I was determined to make a better impression than my first one. I was fully prepared thanks to my night in the basement and I planned to impress. The seats were much emptier without the pack swelling the ranks. I spotted Cassie and made a beeline for her. "Hey, you.""Hey, it's very quiet today.""Yeah, I know. The group from the Northern Camp are all out today, the one that Rachelle and Brodie hang around with. Rumour is that someone is missing."

The noise had not only rocked me but also my parents. I could hear my mum shouting Dad and asking him what he thought was going on. After that, their conversation descended into hushed tones, clearly to keep their suspicions from me. I had heard the anxiety in my mum's tone. She was panicked. Whatever she thought what going on, she thought it was a danger to us. Little did she know how right she was.No matter how I looked at it, I came to the same conclusion. The fight between Pip and the other werewolf had ended in the death of one or both of them, and I had been the reason. The pack would blame me for the issues facing them and that would make me even more of a target than I had been before."Esme, can you come downstairs, please?""I'm coming." I tried to fix the fake smile in place again. I would need it. As I reached the bottom of the stairs, I tried to act as clueless as possible about the situation.

I felt him before I heard him, but the deep growl had way more impact on me than the warmth he imparted. I opened my eyes to see him for the first time. His snow-like fur had streaks of grey in it. He didn't look anywhere near as menacing as the other wolf with one ear completely flopped forward. It gave him an odd look, but one glance at his teeth and you couldn't even consider him to be cute. His eyes were so similar to the other wolf, but there was something slight in them that set him apart. I couldn't put my finger on it, but there was something.The pair of them were both so low, warning one another to back off. While I was still sitting on the floor between them, as though I wasn't remotely involved."What are you waiting for? Get out of here.""What about you?""I don't know if you've noticed, but I'm capable of taking care of myself." I didn't need more persuasion. As I shakily tried to get

I was gutted when we walked into The Corrie, the university’s lunch hall and found the group already there. They were all messing around and sitting around on the tables. I wanted to walk straight back out, but I could feel him there. I grabbed my coffee and sat at a table with Cassie. She was chattering away, but I wasn’t listening to a word of what she said. Instead, I sat there basking in his warmth. “You’re one of them, aren’t you?” I thought about the words rather than speaking out loud.“Maybe you will realise why it is so dangerous for people to know anything about us.” I wanted him to be wrong. It seemed like such a hurdle to overcome.“Maybe if they all knew, they would accept me.”“You need to stay away from all of us. They will never accept you, or me, if they knew. They are your enemies. You just don’t see it.” He kept referring to the two of us as a unit, but I had no idea what he even thought that meant. I had no idea who Pip really was. How could we be a unit?“Esme, I

I had insisted on my parents letting me choose my own course. Although if they had had their way, I wouldn’t have done. I chose English literature. I knew they thought it was a boring choice, but I really wanted to be a teacher, not that I had told them that. They barely let me leave the house. I could hardly announce I wanted to be one day working with a room full of tiny humans. They would have been horrified by the thought, no doubt.Although it was a university, it was also a college and so much more. As such, the age range of the students was much larger than a normal university. As I walked up to the main campus, there were huge planters of wild grasses and flowers. Each one had a ledge all the way around and had students sitting on practically every inch of them, plus loads stood around in the middle too. It was so intimidating, the idea of walking directly through so many people. I suddenly felt a wave of danger and turned. There was a large group of people all gathered toget

I spent the entire weekend working myself up about my first day. I had nothing but time to think about it because I was avoiding my mum. After everything she did to make it happen for me, I didn’t want her to think I wasn’t excited about it. I just kept telling myself that I was overthinking everything. It would be fine. I would make sure it was. After a lifetime of thinking I didn’t fit into the world, it was just hard to imagine being out in it. The unknown voice hadn’t come back, and I was gutted. I had expected him to come. I had nicknamed him Pip after one of my favourite literary characters. It felt easier having a name for him. Although logically, he should have been Magwitch because they were both unseen guardians. That was how I saw him, an unseen hand helping me move forward. Except, when I needed him the most, he wasn’t there. As I climbed into bed on the Sunday before I started at university, I had all but given up hope of hearing from Pip. I wondered if he would no long