Zayne's POVI almost stabbed two detectives today at school with my claws, and I would have either killed or at least injured them.I am a Beta, so I still found it hard to control my wolf sometimes especially if my emotions are heightened. Like today at school, I was first shocked and terrified at the news of Marie's death and that asshole in the name of detective Grey just wouldn't stop triggering me. I was this close to completely losing it and my wolf almost came out and lunged at the detectives. And even after they left, I still could not control my emotions and my wolf was still threatening to come out until Dahlia came in, and her presence mysteriously calmed me. When she touched and comforted me, I instantly felt a satisfying sense of solace and peace. This was not the first time Dahlia's presence did something to me. It made me feel weak and strong at the same time. My wolf that was almost out was calmed and I just wanted to fall in her arms and cry out my heart. Losing some

Dahlia's POVThe school was bustling with activities that morning because midterm exams were around the corner. It was in a week time, so students who slacked off from the beginning of the semester then suddenly woke up from their academic slumber and it was time for mid term exams.Students were running helter skelter trying to submit assignments and projects that they had ignored for weeks. My friends and I were exceptions though because we were the stereotypical nerds. Madison was a little different but she still never failed to do assignments and always studied ahead of time.But the mid term exams was not the only reason the atmosphere of the school was tensed, for me especially, another reason was that Zayne was suspended from school for three weeks.Apparently, he beat Mason Klein up so bad that he would require almost six weeks of recovery. Everybody was talking about it, every dick and harry who never liked Zayne but couldn't act on their feelings because they were scared of

Dahlia's POVI stared at Detective Grey, arching a brow wryly at him."Excuse me?""You should know a little more about Zayne, so is he usually this violent? When he rejected you, was he violent about it?" Detective Grey pressed on, not minding the obvious frown on my face."Zayne was not violent when he rejected me, he had his reasons, his valid reasons." I defended Zayne because it seemed the detective wanted to use that to pass a wrong narrative about him."He had his valid reasons to reject you or he had his valid reasons to be violent about it?" Detective Grey was determined to bring out something from me."I never said he was violent. I said he had his valid reasons to reject me!" I almost snapped at him, I was about to lose my temper on him."But he's usually violent, isn't he? His teammate who he beat up needs six weeks for recovery." I blew raspberry with my lips, "Zayne is not violent. I don't think I have the answers to your questions." I said to him and stood up, preparing

Surprised gasps, including mine, filled the cafe when I slapped Mason hard across his face. My palm already hit his face before I knew what I was doing. Mason placed his hand on his face, staring at me wide eyed in shock."Oh my god." I gasped shakily.Mason stood up, his tongue in his cheek, glaring coldly at me. I started to move backwards, already scared of what he would do to me. Though we were in public so I doubt he'd hit me, but I just hit him across his face, his sense of reasoning might not be functioning at the moment."You --" Mason was about to yell, and probably cuss at me, but I heard someone call out my name."Dahlia?" Still shaken, I slowly looked behind and found Zayne's friends, the twins, sitting at the table right behind Mason and I."Dahlia. What are you--" Jayson stopped when he spotted Mason in front of me, with a murderous gaze in his eyes.Immediately he stood up and his twin followed suit, they came forward and stood between Mason and I."I'm going to take

Zayne's POVMy heart rate increased rapidly and my skin became clammy, though the air conditioner was blowing air fine. My breathing became faster and shallow, with my head feeling light. I came down from the bed and started pacing around.Russell?Could Russell actually be the culprit behind those psychopathic killings? He killed Tracy, Archer, Matthew, Atlas, Martins and Marie? And even that day I got to my old house and found Mark's body on my porch.Could my cousin, one of the few good things in my life, really be the culprit intentionally killing people related to me, so I would be suspected?My legs lost strength and I had to sit back on the bed, beads of sweat already formed on my forehead.Suddenly feeling very thirsty, also feeling my wolf threatening come out, I hurriedly left the room and went to the living room. I opened the refrigerator, took out a bottle of water and gulped down the whole content at once."Boy, are you okay?" I heard Uncle Seb's voice from the dark.Wh