MasukChapter 6Lila’s PovThe next day at school is its own special kind of hell. Every time I see him in the hallway my body remembers the press of his, the scrape of his fangs on my neck. The bite mark is a dull, throbbing secret under the collar of my shirt. I keep touching it without thinking and the phantom pressure makes my clit pulse. We have WWII project notes to exchange, but we do it through Mr. Henderson, passing folded papers like contraband. In the cafeteria I feel his eyes on me from across the room—heavy, constant. I don’t look back. I can’t. If I do, I might just get up and walk over there, and I don’t trust what would happen next.—————————————————————The nightmares start three nights later. They’re always the same: the glowing eyes in the dark, the snap of bone, Kael’s snarl turning into a roar of pain, and then the creature is on me, its breath like rot in my face. I wake up gasping, sheets soaked with sweat and my heart hammering. The fear sits heavy in my gut and t
Chapter 5Lila’s PovThat’s all he needs. His hands are everywhere…gripping my ass, squeezing my breasts, sliding between my legs. He tears my panties off with one sharp pull. The fabric rips and his fingers find my clit and rub rough circles that make me cry out.“You’re so wet,” he says against my mouth. “So fucking ready for me.”I am. I’m dripping, thighs slick. “Please, Kael. I need you inside me.”He unzips his jeans and pushes them down just enough to free his cock. It’s thick, hard, already leaking. He lifts me easily and my legs wrap around his waist. The wall is cold against my back, a sharp contrast to the heat of him.“Look at me,” he says, voice rough. “I want to watch your face when I fuck you.”I meet his eyes as he lines himself up. The head of his cock presses against me, stretching me open. The burn is so sharp and good. I arch into it.“More,” I gasp. “Give me all of it.”He thrusts in hard, burying himself to the hilt in one motion. I scream, nails digging into hi
Chapter 4 Lila’s PovThe leftover pulse of my own orgasm still moves through me, a strange pleasure that feels half mine and half not. My thighs are sticky and my t-shirt is damp with sweat. I roll onto my side, heart still going hard. The image of Kael…his dark eyes, the sharp line of his jaw, the way he’d caught me in the library, stays behind my eyelids. My fingers drift between my legs again, but the ache is different now. It’s a deep and hollow need that rubbing doesn’t fix.The next day at school every shadow feels wrong. I jump at slamming lockers. I flinch when someone brushes past me in the hall. Kael isn’t in first period, and that only makes it worse. When I finally see him at lunch he’s watching me from across the cafeteria. His expression is so intense it makes my skin prickle. Something is off. I don’t know why but I can feel it.I try to eat, but the food feels like it’ll come back up. Every time I glance up he’s still looking. Not smiling. Not looking away. Just wat
Chapter 3Hybrid’s PovThe classroom empties around me and chairs scrape and voices fade into the hallway. I stay in my seat longer than I should, watching the doorway where Lila disappeared. Her scent still hangs in the air..warm, alive, something like sunlight on damp earth after rain. It’s insane how one human smell can quiet the constant war inside me. The vampire’s cold hunger and the wolf’s restless rage both settle when she’s near. A dangerous kind of peace that makes my teeth ache.I force myself to stand and grab my backpack. Avoidance is the only smart move. I just have to get through the rest of the day without another hit of whatever the fuck her presence does to my system. I make it through three classes by choosing seats as far from her as possible and timing my bathroom breaks so we don’t cross in the halls. But whatever cosmic asshole enjoys watching me suffer has other plans.Lila turns in her seat during the next period. Her eyes find mine across the room. There’s
Chapter 2Hybrid’s PovShe took a seat two rows ahead of me and slightly to the left. Close enough that her scent kept pulling at both sides of me every time she shifted in her chair. I stared at the back of her head and tried to remember how to look normal.This was going to be a problem.I’d saved her life less than twelve hours ago. Now she was sitting in the same classroom, close enough that I could hear the slight change in her breathing when she glanced back at me once. She knew. Not what I was, maybe, but she knew I’d been the one in the alley. And I knew her scent well enough now that I’d be able to track her across the whole damn town if I wanted to.I didn’t want to.I told myself that more than once while the teacher started talking about syllabi and expectations and other things I wasn’t going to remember. The wolf side of me was restless, focused on her. The vampire side was quieter than usual, which was somehow worse. Both of them agreed on one thing: she was different.
Chapter 1 Hybrid’s PovThe hunger was already riding me hard by the time I caught the scent. I’d been tracking a rogue for three nights. It wasn’t fully vampire and it wasn’t fully wolf, It was something broken and starving that had been picking people off near the edge of town. I should have put it down the first night I found it, but hybrids like me don’t get to be careless. One wrong move and both sides of the bloodlines that already wanted me dead would have a perfect excuse to finish the job.So I waited. I watched. I followed the trail of half-drained bodies and torn-up alleyways until the thing finally got bold enough to hunt closer to the residential streets.That was when I smelled her.It cut through the usual stink of fear and blood the way clean air cuts through a storm, so warm and alive. Something about it settled the constant low-grade war inside me for half a second, long enough that I actually stopped walking. The wolf side of me lifted its head. The vampire side w
Chapter 2 The air outside the academy is cold enough to bite, but Elliot is warm beside me, practically dragging me toward the waiting Uber he ordered before I even agreed to go out. That’s Elliot, always two steps ahead, always with glitter in his veins.We slide into the backseat together, and
Chapter 3Adrian stood there like a god-like figure bathed in the red glow of the room’s lighting, his skin glistening with a sheen of sweat, his grey hair shimmering like silver. His eyes locked onto mine, piercing and intense, as he stepped into the room. “Hello, beautiful,” his deep voice rumbl
Chapter 3The pool area was already bursting with energy when we arrived. Music pulsed through the air, the bass thrumming in my chest. Bodies glistened under moonlight, laughter and splashes filling the air as Elara's friends lounged on chaises, sipped cocktails, or dove into the shimmering blue w
Chapter 6 My fingers dug into the cold granite countertop at his request, my knuckles turned bone-white, and my breath came in short, sharp gasps. My spine was arched up, my ass lifting instinctively, presenting myself to him like an offering. The air was thick with the scent of my arousal, my we







