Se connecter“You’re supposed to be my enemy,” Xavier said, his thumb brushing over Lucien’s lower lip. “Why then do you smell like mine?” Lucien trembled, his hands had somehow found Xavier’s waist. “Kiss me, and I’ll still kill you.” His voice shook as he talked, but he didn’t look away. Xavier let out a low, humorless breath. “I still get to kiss you then.” He moved his face closer to Lucien’s, “And maybe also kill you before you ever get the chance to kill me.” ~ This wasn’t how it was meant to be. Lucien Thorne only wanted to survive Dravenmoor Academy long enough to save his dying mother. And as a scholarship student, staying invisible was the plan. Then the moon goddess chose two supreme leaders for the academy instead of one, and bound Lucien to the one person he couldn’t afford to want; Xavier Lockwood. Now the only way to save his dying mother is to either rise above the golden boy who makes his blood burn, or to end the competition by killing him completely. Every step toward saving his mother drags him deeper into Xavier’s orbit — and closer to a choice that will leave only one of them standing. And when that choice arrives, whose life will he truly choose to protect?
Voir plusHe was silent for as long as he could because he really didn’t want to startle his mother very well. “Uh, I’m sure it was a standard procedure.” He managed to say. “How do you feel now, really?” He knew that he had to change the subject because the last thing he wanted was to have his mother worried over something that was probably not that serious. But a very deep part of him knew that there was a high probability that it was serious. And only one name rang in his mind. Marcel Lockwood. “I’m very fine.” His mother responded. “Whatever happened earlier wasn’t even that serious. I don’t know why the doctors and nurses were running around like that.” Just then, his phone pinged. It was a credit alert notification from Elias. Lucien sighed — half in relief because the money still felt like a debt. But at least, he had enough money to cater for his mother’s treatment for a few weeks. “I’ll be right back, mom.” He said as he stood up. His mother nodded and smiled at him weakly as he
His throat closed up a bit, “Elias, can we not talk about it now please?” He heard shuffling from the other side and just knew that Elias just sat upright or did something with his body movement, “What’s wrong?” “I’m at the hospital.” He told him. “Okay… as you should be. Did anything happen?” “She had an emergency. Elias, I thought she was gone or something.” His voice shook as he spoke. “And the doctor said her medications has to be improved as she has been placed on maintenance drugs.” Elias breathed in heavily, “Is she better now? How’s the situation?”“Stabilized. Haven’t been allowed to see her yet.” “So, you need money now.” Elias sighed, holding the phone tighter to his ears. “Yes, and everything is a whole lot right now. I don’t think I’ll be able to listen to the result of the votes just yet when my mother needs money that costs medication. I can’t hold both things at once right now… I can’t.” Elias seemed to nod from the other side first because his response was del
The car smelled of old leather of cigarettes. Lucien settled on the seat, staring at Harmon warily. He hadn’t expected to see the man so quickly, and definitely not on a day like that. Sure, Harmon had said that they’d talk the next day, he just didn’t expect it to be physical. “Are you going anywhere? I can take you there.” Harmon said, breaking the silence. He was exactly what his voice suggested — old, measured and the kind of man who had watched everything happen from a distance and had gotten tired of only watching. “No. I'd rather we just talk here.” He didn’t trust Harmon enough yet to lead him to his house. “Well then, I—“ Lucien cut him off a little bit rudely, “How did you know my current location?” He asked. Harmon looked a little bit shocked at the sudden interruption but he said nothing. “Duke told me. You don’t think that Marcel doesn’t know where your mother is being treated, right? I remember Duke mentioning the hospital once, and I knew you’d be
Xavier had always woken up earlier at home than he did at school — partly because the home wasn’t so comfortable that he’d wake up at any time he wanted to, or it was just because he was made to wake up at early hours as a kid to train and that just grew up with him. Either way, he was certain that he woke up before Amber did that morning. And his father surprisingly wasn’t anywhere around in the morning. He walked downstairs and paused in his tracks upon seeing Amber in the kitchen. And by the look of things, she woke up way before he did. He could tell in the way she had her schoolbooks scattered around her like she was studying. He said nothing at first, just watching her from behind. But a part of him, on seeing her made him remember everything that went down with Lucien the day before. After about a minute of just staring at Amber, he realized that she wasn’t indeed studying because she had been staring at the same paragraph for the past one minute and she didn’t seem to noti
"What's with the face? Dravenmoor's most intelligent.” Lucien looked up from his plate. Finn was staring at him from across the dining table, chin propped on his fist, the picture of concern and amusement at the same time. "I'm fine." "You look really bothered.” Lucien stared down at his pl
The field behind Dravenmoor's dodgeball didn't look like much on a regular day — stretch of open ground, tree line at the far end, sky too wide and too grey above it. Today it looked like a warzone. Fifty, maybe sixty students spread across the grass in training gear, some already mid-drill, other
“Lucien Thorne.” Lucien sat across from Mrs. Aldric, hands flat on his thighs, back straight. He tapped his feet repeatedly on the floor. "Your mother was admitted three days ago." Mrs. Aldric slid a paper across the desk glancing at Lucien. "The hospital contacted us as her next listed instituti
“Detention!” Mr. Finrar's finger jabbed at the door like it had personally offended him. "Out! Detention room. Now!" Lucien went first. Xavier followed, releasing his collar like he was dropping something that bored him, brushing his shirt like the whole thing had been mildly inconvenient. The de
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