Chapter 32

This was not going to end well.

Syanna knew it. Mark knew it. Cole knew it. Even the damn moon knew it!

And indeed, before Syanna could get a fair chance to speak, Cole was across the room, pinning Mark against the wall with just one hand.

“Cole, stop!” she shouted, but like she expected, he didn’t even flinch. How did he even find her? And so fast, too?

Had something changed? Did he put a tracker on her? Or was it just a great guess? But even if it was, how did Cole know she was in this exact room. It wasn’t even Mark’s room. It was Veronica’s.

Syanna could see the life draining from Mark’s eyes within seconds. Cole was burning a palm around his next, not to mention suffocating him, too. This would end badly if he did, indeed, kill Mark. But, unlike the first time he had Mark at death’s door when Syanna was only afraid of what would happen to Cole since he’d be sentenced to death, she saw the bigger picture now.

Mark was the leader of this school’s vampire association. If he died