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🖱️Jayden🖱️

“Are you even human.”

Jane said it the second the door slammed shut behind us, and the way she said my name right after was sharp and shaking and nothing like her usual controlled calm.

“Because what the fuck was that, Jayden.”

I barely had time to sit before she was in front of me, pacing like the room was too small to hold whatever fear she was trying not to show. Her hands kept moving like she wanted to grab me and shake answers out of my body.

“That was not normal,” she continued. “That was not stress or nerves or some dramatic council bullshit. Your blood triggered everybody in that hall. Wolves. Vampires. Everyone. It was like you poured intoxication into the air and watched predators lose their minds.”

I looked down at my arm.

The bandage was soaked through now, red creeping past the edges like it was alive and looking for somewhere else to go. My stomach twisted.

“I didn’t do anything on purpose,” I said quietly. “I swear.”

Jane stopped pacing and stared at me lik