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EVELESSA "Time for school mama"I wake up already irritated.Maybe it’s the way everyone has been looking at me lately while I'm dealing with my grief, maybe it’s the whispers. Maybe it’s the fact that my life has turned into a circus and somehow I’m expected to sit pretty in the middle of it.Either way, by the time I walk into class, my patience is hanging by a thread.Aretha walks beside me, sipping iced coffee like nothing in the world bothers her.“You look like you’re about to fight a building,” she mutters.“I might,” I say flatly.Alexander and Alexis split off down the hall possibly up to whatever.We enter the lecture hall.And of course, Mara is already there sitting at the front row with her leg crossed with her flawless hair and fake smile and she looks at me like she’s been waiting.I ignore her and take my usual seat two rows behind.Class hasn’t started yet. Students are chatting. Someone’s laughing too loud “Well, if it isn’t the grieving fashion icon.” Mara says a

CASSAIN They don’t even wait a full twenty-four hours before pulling their crazy staunt again. I’m in my office reviewing contracts when Lucian walks in without knocking.“They’ve called another emergency session,” he says.I don’t look up immediately.“On what grounds?”“Officially? Faculty assault.”Unofficially.They’re testing how far they can push.I sign the last page calmly.Cap the pen and stand.“Fine,” I say.Lucian watches me carefully. “Try not to break the table this time.”“No promises.”The council chamber feels like a stage for clowns.Every seat is filled.Valeux sits at the center again, hands folded like he’s leading a funeral.Mine, apparently.I don’t greet them.I walk straight to the center of the floor and stop.“You summoned me,” I say evenly.Valeux nods.“You assaulted Professor Kane in his office.”“He assaulted me first.”Murmurs ripple.An elder on the left scoffs. “He is human.”I glance at him slowly.“And?”“You could have killed him.”“I didn’t.”“Y

CASSAIN I'm in my study when Lucian walks in with a pensive look “The council is currently holding a meeting to name Sebastian the new king of all creatures; they've split into two factions" he says.I don’t look up from the file in my hand.“Define split.”“Valeux called a private assembly."“And?”Lucian holds my gaze.“They’re forming a separate faction.”Silence stretches between us.“What's the situation on ground?” I ask evenly.He doesn’t answer immediately.Which already tells me I won’t like it.“They’re divided like I said”The air in the room changes.Slowly.“Many sided with Sebastian? ” I ask“Yes.”Lucian exhales.For a moment, I don’t feel anger.Just something colder and mere amusement at their antics.“They’re asking him to be crowned king of all creatures,” Lucian continues. “Claiming your instability threatens balance.”I lean back in my chair.A slow smile forms.“Where?”“Abandoned cathedral grounds outside the city. Midnight.”“And Sebastian?”“He’s there.”Of c

EVELESSA One minute I’m in my room staring at walls feeling restless, the next I’m in jeans and a loose white shirt, my hair pulled high, keys in my hand, ignoring the seventeen missed calls from Aretha.“I just need air,” I mutter to myself as I drive.Cassain has been… different.Possessive in ways that suffocate me.Ever since Valeux tried that ridiculous coup and Cassain slaughtered half the fools who thought Sebastian should be crowned king of anything, there’s a tension everywhere and he questions everything. He wants to propose.I know it, I can feel it in my bones as he hints at a marriage every now and then yet I do not want a marriage. Marriage feels like a cage and I do not want to be caged. Heck I do not have a good example or model for a marriage. We're mates...that should be enough but not for Cassain. I park outside the high-end plaza near the waterfront. It’s bright, polished and expensive. I move through it easily. People stare, but they always do. I’m used to t

SERAPHINA "Hello love..."I knew he would find me eventually. I see him again, standing beside her bed as if time had folded in on itself, I felt the sky tremble inside my ribs.Michael.“You’re alive,” he said.Not a question but an accusation.My hand tightened around the crystal keys I'm holding. “I never died,” I answered evenly.He scoffed“You let me believe you were ash.”There it was.The wound I gave him.I looked at him fully then, and for one dangerous moment, the centuries dissolved.I saw the angel who once watched stars like they were fragile.I saw the male who pressed his forehead to mine and chose me over heaven, and I wanted to run into his arms.Instead, I straightened.“You were not supposed to survive,” I said quietly.“Survive?” he repeated. “They stripped me of light. They made me a beast. They threw me into the sea.”“I know.”His eyes darkened. “Then you know what your silence did to me. Now I find an adult with my blood humming in her veins and your essen