All Chapters of Bound to the Alpha I must kill; A Dravenmoor Academy Romance: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

The manifesto notice had spread through the school so fast that when Lucien stepped outside again even though it was night, he still heard students whispering about it. Everyone was in full gear, anticipating what both him and Xavier had to say to them tomorrow. But why hasn't Adric announced the manifesto date prior to that night? She had a whole lot of time to tell them about it, yet she said nothing. He stared back at Elias’s message and sent a curt “Okay” even though he had other things to say. Sure, he had the bones of the manifesto ready, but not the full thing yet. All he had was facts, numbers and the policy angles Elias had been drilling in him for weeks. But the thing that’ll make people actually get pushed enough to vote for him, the one that really mattered — he was still finding the words for it. And that was the main manifesto. It was a bit late at night but he still made his way to the library. All he had was midnight to prepare for the manifesto, because he already

He had no idea what Marcel went to do with Xavier after that but he didn’t see him anywhere around the whole day. Elias and Finn were around him though as they did the last campaign for the elections which will be held tomorrow. The manifesto seemed to have done all the work that any campaign should have done though as the people were moved already. At the end of the day, the campaign session turned into a normal dialogue session between them and the students. It was a heart lifting moment and Lucien laughed the hardest he had done in a while. It was soon night and still, there wasn’t any sight of Xavier. When he got on his bed, he had no other choice but to text him. ‘Hey, are you good? You haven’t been in school all day.’ He hesitated for a while before pressing down on the send button. He threw the phone on the bed, let out a very deep breath and stared up at the ceiling while thinking about what tomorrow would look like. His eyes were closing when his phone pin

He called Amber back immediately and she answered on the second ring. The first thing he registered was that she was whispering and that she seemed to be hurrying towards a place — most likely a corner where no one would hear her. “Hello.” He said into the phone, speaking first. “Is this Lucien?” He hadn’t heard her voice well before, the only time he did was on that phone call that he eavesdropped on Xavier. Hearing it now wasn’t any different. It felt like he knew her, but he also didn’t know her. “Yes. I received your message. Is everything okay over there?” He badly wanted to ask right away if Xavier was in good condition or if their father was up to anything again. “I don’t know what to say to that.” Amber said on the other end. “But father and Xavier have been in his study since they got back from the school.” “Are they fighting or what?” “No. But it seems worse than that, and the only reason I decided to take your number from Xavier’s phone was because I heard your na

Xavier stared at the table for a beat too long, the answer hanging somewhere in his throat. Marcel seemed to already know the response without Xavier even saying shit. But he kept his emotions at bay. He just leaned back against the chair, held Xavier’s gaze even though the person in question was barely looking at him. “I don’t care what you feel, and you should know by now that I’ve never cared.” He spoke with that controlled voice that had always been more frightening than a shout. “The only fucking thing I care about is what you do with how you feel. And here’s what you’re going to do — you’ll win this competition. There’s no other option, and when you finally win it, I’ll put the folder away and maybe we can forget that anything like this ever happened.” Xavier finally looked up and held his father’s face. Marcel’s eyes had always held no emotions but at that moment, staring at him made him feel like he was looking right at a stranger who he wasn’t familiar with, and not the m

Xavier had always woken up earlier at home than he did at school — partly because the home wasn’t so comfortable that he’d wake up at any time he wanted to, or it was just because he was made to wake up at early hours as a kid to train and that just grew up with him. Either way, he was certain that he woke up before Amber did that morning. And his father surprisingly wasn’t anywhere around in the morning. He walked downstairs and paused in his tracks upon seeing Amber in the kitchen. And by the look of things, she woke up way before he did. He could tell in the way she had her schoolbooks scattered around her like she was studying. He said nothing at first, just watching her from behind. But a part of him, on seeing her made him remember everything that went down with Lucien the day before. After about a minute of just staring at Amber, he realized that she wasn’t indeed studying because she had been staring at the same paragraph for the past one minute and she didn’t seem to noti