ログインThe common room was bustling at this hour as students rushed around, getting ready for classes. I made my way to the kitchen and threw a bagel in the toaster, leaning against the counter as I waited.“Callum?”Bianca stepped into view, appearing out of seemingly nowhere. My jaw tightened, wolf insti
Callum’s POVI woke to the feeling of something warm in my chest.For a moment, I almost could have sworn that I had something small and delicate gathered up in my arms. A gentle heart beating against my own. A lock of soft hair fluttering against my cheek.Liora.A smile touched my lips. I tightene
It might have been laughable, had circumstances not been so… sad.“So your parents took it badly, I imagine,” I pointed out.Callum huffed and looked into his bottle. “My dad beat the shit out of me.”I pulled my head back. “He what?”Wordlessly, Callum turned, pulling his shirt up to reveal his bac
Liora’s POVI just barely made it into the parking space before the car let out one final groan, then sputtered to a stop, rocking back and forth on the wheels.“Sorry about that, girl,” I said, patting the steering wheel. “That was a lot more driving in one day than I anticipated.”Shirley almost s
“Twenty lashes,” he said. “We’ll see if you change your mind then.”I grit my teeth. “I don’t have to put up with this anymore.”“Would you rather take it, or would you prefer if that little wolfless whore of yours took it instead?”The moment he said those words, I felt all the blood drain from my
Callum’s POVMy father’s shadow darkened the room.There was a time in my life when my father’s presence seemed enormous and all-consuming, like a black hole filling any space he entered. When I was a child, I remembered thinking that he was big enough to reach the moon, or to blot out the sun.I’d
CallumThere was something almost impressive about the way Bianca’s confidence collapsed when the script seem to run out.She tried to speak.I could see it now, her mouth opened once, then again, but the words didn’t come. Maybe she was trying to remember which lie she’d last used, or maybe she sim
LioraI don’t know how to describe the feeling that rose in me as Callum spoke my name. like I was just another item on his list, another obligation he had to deal with.It wasn’t just anger. Not just sadness either. It was something deeper, something that coiled in the hollow space behind my ribs a
LioraMia was brushing her hair and babbling again.I thought she was the quiet type, turns out, she opens up once you get to know her.It was a strange comfort, the way she filled the quiet. I’d never met someone who could talk in parentheses, one topic spilling into the next with barely a breath i
She glanced over her shoulder. “I don’t bet on things that smile that much.”And then she walked off.Hm. That almost felt like a compliment.I stood there for a moment, hands in my pockets, watching the moon catch in her hair like gold and fire. Even in this light, she shines more like the sun.Fas







