LOGINRaven’s POVThe morning sun filtered through the heavy velvet curtains, casting a warm golden hue across the dining room. I sat stiffly at the long oak table, surrounded by them…my brothers. Well, not by blood….not really yet as it makes me feel uncomfortable to address them that way.Breakfast was laid out like a feast. Roasted meats, fish cooked to perfection, thick sauces in tiny porcelain bowls, and fresh bread rolls that smelled like heaven. Yet, I had no appetite. I pushed the meat away gently. It wasn’t because it didn’t smell good. I just wasn’t a meat type.Cassian looked up from his plate. “Don’t want the meat?” he asked softly, his voice almost too gentle for someone like him.I shook my head.He didn’t wait for more. He reached over with his long fingers and gently swapped my plate with his, now filled with fish. “Try the salmon,” he said. “It’s good.”I didn’t respond, didn’t even meet his eyes. I couldn’t. Not after the way he looked at me last night or the way he touche
Powerful muscles flexed as he moved, working the tongue of his belt through the buckle and panic and instant desire flooded throughout my body.We were in the kitchen, anyone could walk right through now and we'll have a lot of explaining to do. “What do you want, Raven?” My body shivered as he pushed his pants to the floor too, leaving him standing in soft black boxer briefs, his cock straining against the fabric. So precise and controlled. The real him was shimmering under the surface. There was a lie about Caius , a pretense where he lived. Everyone knew it. Everyone saw it, but no one acknowledged it. No one stepped into his darkened room and threw open the blinds, exploring his desires…except for me right now.“You..sh.. should stop, anyone can walk in right now?” “Is that it, what you're worried about and not what you want to see?” I folded my hands around my chest and felt bold. I really wanted to see Caius go crazy too, he was the quiet one watching as if nothing unbother
Raven's POVWhen we returned home, the air felt heavier than usual. . I just wanted to head straight to my room and pretend this entire day hadn’t happened. But no—they were waiting for me in the living room.My stepfather stood at the base of the grand staircase, holding something small and velvet in his palm. It was a box and I slowed down, eyeing him cautiously.“This is for you, you should open it” he said with his tone measured and eyes softer than usual.I hesitated before taking the box from his hand. Inside was a brooch with deep silver, ornately crafted and glinting in the chandelier light with a crimson gemstone at its center. It pulsed like a heart.“It’s the royal badge,” he said, like it should’ve meant something monumental to me. “It marks you as one of us now. A daughter of the house of Velmora.”I stared at it longer than I needed to. One part of me felt… something. Maybe awe or confusion but another part wanted to drop it on the marble floor and walk away.“Your mothe
Raven’s POVI was reeling from the orgasm Dante gave to me, my body still trembled and I hated how I was still sitting this close to him with his expression as if he didn't just watched me naked, his expressions was something to kill for, I wanted to do that again so I could see him fall apart. I hope he doesn't read my mind, through my research process, I discovered that they read minds too.Can he read mine right now? What's he doing?He's smirking, oh God! Dante is smirking right now, looking at the road while driving? Does he thinks this is a fun game? It's fucking frustrating and infuriating.“Do you want to go back to Pack princess, I mean I enjoy all that flushed look but do you like it that much from you to stare at me like I'm cake?” My mouth fell open and I scoffed.“Huh? What's that?”He stared at me and bit his lips before facing the road back again.“Don't look at me like that, it's frustrating I can't get through your mind so it's frustrating that I don't know whether yo
Raven's Pov “As a friend?” he growled, then shifted his gaze to my lap. My body responded, warming and throbbing.Gods, the way he looked at me with frustration…why do I like that he was bothered with the way I've been treating them. I didn’t understand why I was so affected by them, why they seemed to tap into that dark, aching place inside me. He reached out, brushed his fingers along my thigh, and drew my skirt higher. “I’m not your friend Raven… you’re family now,” he murmured, his gaze riveted to my thigh as he exposed it inch by inch. I grabbed the skirt from him, feeling my heart beats in loud drums, yanking the hem down. “I saw you, you know….that diary thing of yours?” My hand stilled, fisted against my leg. He lifted his gaze to mine.“What the fuck Dante!” I yelled in the car, turning to leave but it was locked.“Raven wait.”“You had no fucking right to touch my private belongings! It was private for a reason, fuck you!” I cried out feeling shame burned through the dep
Dante’s POVHer friend was right.We’d spent the last week walking on eggshells around Raven, hoping our regret would undo the past, praying our careful kindness would somehow erase what we’d done. But none of it mattered, not the new room, the gifts, the hovering concern because Raven didn’t want our guiltShe didn’t even want our apologies. She wanted space and we were the last people qualified to give it to her.Yet here I was, standing at her door, still trying.“What now?” she asked, arms folded over her oversized hoodie, her bare legs peeking from beneath.“Get your phone,” I said.Her brow arched. “Why?”“We’re going shopping.” I told her and folded my arms.“For what?”“The Blood Moon Ball and other events to take place.”She scoffed, rolling her eyes so hard I thought they’d stay there. “Right, and I’m supposed to show up wrapped in lace and sparkles like some ornament for the vampires to gawk at just because my stepbrother is suddenly being sweet after showing me hell?”I i
Raven's PovNothing prepared me for what unfolded before me. My anger had blinded meand made me reckless, it made me forget where I was. This wasn’t New York, where I could teach some psychos a lesson and get away with it. This was Blackthorn University—a vampire school
Elias PovWe made her come again, right before the eyes of the students who were staring at us like chocolates and before our very sight, I felt her wet juices while she stared at Cassian’s cock despite her laboured and struggled breathing who was busy fucking and stroking his
Cassian’s POVWe had never, not once, set foot in the general cafeteria since arriving at Blackthorn University. It was beneath us and crowded, noisy, filled with lowly creatures who either feared us, worshipped us, or were stupid enough to think they could challenge us
Elias' POV The door opened and her breath almost ceased, it was just a goddamn breeze that opened the door! How can she be so scared of the air and snap at us like we were nothing!She shouldn't have come. I kept repeating that over and over again in my he







