LOGINSERAPHINA “One more stunt like this,” he said, his voice low, “And you’ll be the one falling.”Sienna tried to hide her flinch but I saw it, and the way her lips pressed in a thin line showed how she hated that Oliver was taking my side. Something she wouldn’t have expected. Actually, no one would've after what I did.Even I didn’t expect it.My attention slid to Oliver. He didn’t shout. Didn’t threaten like a high school jock. But the promise in his voice? It shut her up more effectively than any screaming ever coukd have.And I wondered why?Why was he doing this?And I hated the flicker of satisfaction and warmth that travelled through me. Hated more that for the first time in two years, someone had stood up for me, and it turned out to be him.Because this wasn’t even about me. It was about power. About control. It was possession. He wasn’t protecting me, he was staking a claim in front of everyone.My cheeks burned with shame and fury.Sienna’s mouth opened, then shut. For once,
SERAPHINA I was falling. The world tilted, stairs rushing up to meet me, and for one horrific second, I was sure this was it. This was the time when I’ll end up in a hospital with broken arm or a twisted ankle.A scream remained lodged in my throat as I squeezed my eyes shut, bracing for the sharp crack of pain against the cold marble stairs—But it didn’t come as I crashed into a hard chest insead, my breath escaping in a sharp exhale as strong arms wrapped around me, warm and solid, as they broke my fall, halting my descent with a jolt.My breath caught in my throat as my eyes flew open and clashed with blue ones.Oliver.His jaw was tight, expression unreadable, but something flickered behind his gaze. His fingers clenched around my waist like he was holding himself back.“Careful,” he muttered, his voice calm, a smile flirting on his lips replacing the cold stony expression in a blink. But still there was something different about this one. “Can’t have you breaking a bone or get
SERAPHINA “Who's on trash duty today, it’s left here in the open again?” Like always the comment was followed by a bunch of them laughing. I ignored them as I made my way across the hall to take the stairs for my class. The corridors buzzed with students, voices overlapping, the smell of coffee and perfume thick in the air. I forced myself to keep walking. Keep breathing. At least you are safe here for a few hours from those three, I told myself. Away from them. From him. And these people here were not as dangerous as those three. I have been facing them, dealing with them and taking their shitty behaviour for two years, I just need to bear it for another few months until the finals. But that pep talk didn’t help. No. Because of course, I wasn’t as fortunate as to not come across Sienna Carlyle. My bully and the reason I hated college. The girl who had tried to befriend me during that party to get close to the Lords and then realised that I was nothing to them and started the
SERAPHINA "Kneel.” I clenched my fists, told myself again and again to just be done with his arrogant arse and get out of here. I forced my legs to move. Each step felt like it weighed a thousand pounds and when I finally knelt beside him, head bowed, every muscle in my body screaming with shame and hatred, I told myself there will come a day when they’ll pay for every bit of their cruelty. If not at my hands then someone else will bring them to their knees and make them beg. Dante’s fingers brushed my chin, tilting my face up. “It wasn’t so hard, was it?” His eyes glittered with a sick amusement. “Let’s not forget that obedience is rewarded and disobedience is punished.” Fuck you, arsehôle. I gritted my teeth and bit down on my lip, refusing to give him the satisfaction of a response. After that, breakfast passed in a blur of humiliation. Like dinner last night, he fed me piece by piece— slow, deliberate, forcing me to open my mouth for every bite. My face burned. My st
SERAPHINA Dark, emotionless, cold eyes glared down at me. The violence in them was evident and I shuddered. Then he lifted his hand and I jerked back with a gasp. Only, when I blinked again I was in the bed. I breathed heavily as the last threads of the nightmare uncoiled from my consciousness. It was just a dream.Heart racing from the remenants of the dream, I stared at the ceiling, trying hard but not able to forget what had happened last night. The way the three of them had bound me and… I sat up with a groan, pushing those thoughts away. But my soft groan turned into a scream as my eyes met the dark ones. It was like he just stepped out of my nightmare. His eyes burned into mine, cold and merciless, as if he’d never left the room last night. His arms were crossed, but his entire body was coiled like a predator waiting to pounce. Last night, when I had
DANTE "Oliver.” He looked up at me at my sharp voice, and I saw the rebellious expression on his face and the challenge in his blue eyes. He was my childhood friend, one out of two people I trusted most, but if he ruined her like this— if he took what none of us had yet agreed to— I would drag him off her by the throat and throw him out of the house right fucking now. Her virginity was a shocking surprise, and gave a recourse to our existing plan and was a hindrance to what we were going to do. And now we will need a new plan. One, where the three of us will need to be on the same page. Because I saw the obsessive glint in Oliver’s eyes and the cold smirk on Allister’s face. If I knew anything about my best friends both of them wanted to fuck her right fucking now, take her virginity, and for totally different reasons. And, one of them will be doing it just for the wrong reason— to give me the taste of m
SERAPHINA "Why are you telling me that?"He didn’t answer me as he continued, “And, Oliver. As much he’s being a prince charming, he could be a devil in a blink of an eye. And me?” He tilted his head slightly, the golden light of his eyes turning colder somehow. “It seems I am the only safe bet yo
SERAPHINA He was kissing me.Allister Hale was kissing me.He was giving me my first kiss.My breath caught as his lips pressed against mine, firm and demanding. Not sweet, not tender. He wasn’t giving me my first kiss but he was claiming it. But not with the harsh brutality Dante had shown me or
SERAPHINA “Kneel and crawl to me, just like you did for Oliver.” He spat the name like a venomous curse. If I were delusional enough, I might have thought there was jealousy in his voice. But I wasn’t that foolish. When I didn’t move quickly enough, his patience thinned and his hands dropp
SERAPHINASomeone picked me up in their arms, but I didn’t open my eyes. My body was trembling too hard, my breath shallow and tight. Silent tears trailed down my cheeks but I couldn’t cry out loud anymore. I was all cried out. I felt broken from the inside.My lips felt bruised, my mouth tasted of







