Chapter 15

Thane's POV

It all felt weird. For the first time in a very long time, I was angry at myself about how badly I treated someone, so much that it made me sad. I stared at Seth for a while before I slept off, wondering about the things he must have gone through over the two nights he had spent in what was supposedly an evil forest.

What concerned me the most was how he managed to come back alive and unscathed when others never came back.

By the time I woke up, he was still asleep. I had several messages from Rose. I had cancelled out of the blue last night. I sent apology messages to her. I went through my normal morning routine of going to the gym for workouts, and when I was done with that, I had my bath and began my day properly.

“I checked the previous paper you turned in, and it was superb.” Mr Harry nodded with a straight face. I tried hiding the smile that lurked beneath my face, but I wasn't doing a good job. Mr Harry raised a brow and scoffed.

“Thank you, sir.” I responded, shaking myself back to my usual nonchalant state.

“How's it going with the other assignment?” He asked, maintaining eye contact with me in such a way that I couldn't look away. It was another one of the many things alphas could supposedly do.

I could already see how brutal I'd be as an Alpha.

“Erm… I've started gathering information,” I said, taking a brief pause, “from newspapers to the Internet, to anything that can give me additional information.”

“Have you consumed the one in the case file yet?” He asked.

“Yes sir.” I responded.

“So tell me about the case.”

“It's about Luke Grant. He was killed on October 23rd, 2012. It was made out to be an accident, but it was a murder.” I said.

“And what's so convincing that you're sure it's a murder and not an accident?” Mr Harry asked.

“Two bullets were found in his chest during the autopsy.” I responded. “And the state in which his car was found depicts that it couldn't have been an accident.”

“Okay then. Good luck.” Mr Harry winked at me.

I was about to leave when he called me back.

“Huh?”

“There'd be a school competition in three days, and we’d be out of the academy for three days.” Mr Harry said. “It's against Thornclaw Academy.”

“The Northern kingdom.” I muttered, and he nodded.

“Yes.” He said, twirling on his chair. “Get prepared. We'd move in two days.”

“I will, sir.”

“Also, tell your roommate to see me before the day is over.” He instructed.

I left his office, and it felt like I was just able to breathe properly. I could almost hear chants and clamours. Fights were the dumbest thing to happen in Clawstone. Nothing good ever came from the fights but insane rivalry.

“I swear if Lincoln is a part of his shit, I'll fuck him up badly…” I cursed under my breath, running towards the area. I grabbed one of the many towels around, and continued my run.

Students had gathered round and they were shouting. I could also hear very intense growls, and as expected Lincoln was one of the two people.

I jumped in to stop the fight, but I was shocked to see a beautiful wolf in Clawstone Academy. He had a navy blue wolf with white stripes all over. On the right side, the stripes were in the form of another wolf. It was one heck of a beautiful sight. The wolf growled again, and I realized it was Seth.

I jumped in and stopped the fight. Lincoln had already shifted back to his human state, and now, they were clamouring for Seth to also shift.

He looked uncomfortable, and I had the feeling that he didn't want to shift.

“Let him be!” I exclaimed, but they barely listened.

“Shift! Shift!! Shift!!” They kept shouting relentlessly.

It got very intimidating that no one would want to shift in such situations.

“He probably has a small penis.” Zion said, and everyone laughed, but that was enough for him to make way for Seth's escape. Everyone dispersed almost immediately, and in less than 15 seconds, it was like two people weren't to rip each other apart minutes ago.

“What's fucking wrong with you?!” I snapped at Lincoln who just hissed at me. He kept walking like he hadn't done something stupid and impulsive.

“Man, you should have let me hit that son of a bitch.” He growled, walking towards his room to change into fresh clothes.

“You can't make scenes like this.” I hissed. “You have 9 strikes already, and the maximum for a normal student is 5!” I snapped. “Don't cause more trouble for yourself.”

“But you weren't worried about any of that when I was helping you solve a ‘problem’.”

“Well, I guess you're really terrible at solving all sorts of problems then, because why's this one lurking still?!” I snapped, speaking in low tones.

“Well, I can make sure that it's not lurking again, I just need you to man up, and let me handle this shit!” Lincoln snapped back at me repeatedly, but none of our voices were raised.

“No man, don't bother.” I shook my head. “Let him be.”

“I guess I'd try.” Lincoln shrugged.

I went towards the room immediately. I was pissed at myself for starting a battle I might not be able to finish. On entering the room, I was shocked by what I saw. Zion and Seth were obviously arguing before I walked in.

Through my eyes, they pinpointed the direction I was looking at, and everyone's eyeballs widened.

There was a lady's pant in the room!