Chapter 4

Chapter 4

EDEN

The glass doors of the server room hiss shut behind me, locking with a sharp click.

My hips still ached from where Asher's finger had dug in my skin, a good kind of ache.

But the threat of the security footage hanging over my head like a sword, I had only a few hours left, before the midnight deadline.

I took a deep breath, flexing my fingers trying to steady my hands, while walking towards the dorms, I need a locked door between me and the rest of the school, to gather my thoughts.

When I pushed open my dorm room door, I expected to find my roommate Maya studying. Instead, the room was a mess.

Books were scattered, and Maya was hovering nervously near the small bathroom door with her shoulders tensed.

Killian Cross was sitting on my unmade bed.

He was leaning back on his elbows, casually tossing my worn copy of my notebook in the air and catching it, his uniform jacket was unbuttoned, and his boots were kicked off onto my rug.

My chest tightened. "What are you doing in here, Killian?"

He wasn't even startled, he just tilted his head, his chaotic hazel eyes warming when they met mine.

His scent was different from the other two, cinnamon and warm vanilla, soft and lacking that crushing, suffocating weight of Jaxon's dominant scent.

"Maya, give us a minute, will you?" Killian said, his tone surprisingly polite, a gentle contrast to his usual mocking smirk.

Maya didn't need to be told twice. She scurried past me and slipped out onto the hallway , not even bothering to shut the door.

"You shouldn't be in here," I said, peeking out the door before shutting it. "This is the slave dorm."

"I'm an Elite,Pet. Rules are suggestions for me." Killian said, standing up from my bed, and walking over to me.

He didn’t corner me against the wood, he stopped two feet away from me. Then reached into his jacket pocket pulling out a small glass vial with a shimmering ointment. "For your face."

What's wrong with my face, staring at the vial in his hand."What is it?"

"High grade salve," he said, taking my hand and placing it into my palm, his skin was incredibly warm. "It'll take the bruising down on your chin in a few minutes, Jaxon has a heavy grip, when he is angry."

My fingers tightened around the glass. "Why are you helping me? Your friends wants to kill me or ruin me."

Killian's playful smirk faded. His gaze dropped to my chin, his eyes flashing with a sudden anger that looked completely out of place on his friendly face.

He took one more step in my direction, his thumb reaching out, lightly brushing the edge of my bruised chin.

A soft, tingling warmth bloomed where he touched me.

"Because my wolf has omega tendencies, Eden." Killian whispered, his voice dropping, sounding like it was made for just my ears. "I feel things, when Jaxon and Asher feel pain, or anger, or even...lust, I feel an echo of it, when Jaxon knew, we all knew. And I just discovered I don't like seeing you hurt."

Getting hold of myself. "So you're just reacting to a biological glitch." I muttered, pulling my face back from his touch.

"Maybe," Killian said, slipping his hands into his pockets and stepping back. "But you shouldn’t go to the lab tonight,"

"How did you know about that?"

Ignoring me he continued. "Asher's obsession with control makes him very dangerous, he doesn't know how to compromise if you will. He only knows how to break things until they fit his standards."

" He has the security footage," I said, the truth slipping out of me, before I could stop it. " If I don't go, he'll upload it. The whole school will know about....." i hold myself back from blurting the truth about kia.

Killian's expressions went dead serious. "If Asher or Jaxon claims you tonight, if he uses that threat to force the bond, I'll know and feel every second of it. The traid bond is a curse, Eden. Don’t go to him, let me handle Asher."

He stepped past me, his shoulders brushed mine and opened my dorm door, pausing without looking back at me. "Keep the salve."

He walks out, I stand in the center of my room, holding the cool balm in my hands, my phone buzzing in my pocket, jerks me out of my thoughts.

An Anonymous link from an unlisted number I tap it.

And it's a five second video of my hands touching the vial and the liquid instantly turns into pure white vapor, below the video is a digital timer ticking.

5:42:32

5:42:31

My finger and hands shake as it dawns on me that I have to choose, choose between the boy who is nice to me, or walk into the trap set by the one who got away.