جميع فصول : الفصل -الفصل 95

Aria’s POV:Something had changed. I just couldn’t figure out what. It had been a few days since Archer had confronted me in the hallway, and ever since then, he’d been different.He wasn’t nicer. Not exactly. Just… quieter. Usually, when Archer saw me, there was something in his eyes that gave him away. Irritation. Frustration. Jealousy. Sometimes that strange intensity I could never quite explain.Now there was nothing. Or at least, nothing he was willing to let me see. He avoided me. Not in the same way Jasper had when he was angry. Archer simply seemed to disappear whenever I entered a room.If I walked into the cafeteria, he’d leave. If I entered the training hall, he’d suddenly have somewhere else to be. If we passed each other in the hallway, his gaze would flick toward me for half a second before he looked away.It was beginning to bother me. More than I wanted to admit. I sat at breakfast between Jasper and Lucien, trying to focus on the conversation happening around me. Jas

Aria’s POV:Something was wrong with me. Or maybe something was finally waking up. I wasn’t sure which scared me more. It had started with little things. Things I barely noticed at first.I could hear conversations from farther away than I should have been able to. I could smell things I’d never noticed before, the faint scent of rain through closed windows, the herbs growing near the courtyard, even the individual scents of people when they walked past me.Sometimes I knew someone was behind me before I heard their footsteps. Sometimes I moved before I realized I was moving. And then there were my powers.They were becoming stronger…Much stronger. The problem was that I didn’t know why. I discovered just how much they had changed during combat training.Jasper and I were standing at the beginning of the academy’s combat trial course. The course had been designed to test supernatural abilities under pressure. There were moving targets, enchanted barriers, magical traps, shifting platf

Aria’s POV:I knew something had changed between Jasper and me. I just couldn’t figure out exactly what. It had been subtle at first. A pause here. A strange look there. The way his eyes lingered on me for a second longer than they used to before he seemed to remember himself and looked away.Jasper had always been shameless around me. He flirted when he was bored, teased me when I was annoyed, and seemed to consider invading my personal space one of his favorite hobbies. Lately, though, there was something different in his eyes. Something heavier. And I was beginning to notice.We were walking across the academy courtyard after lunch when a gust of wind suddenly swept between us. I instinctively lifted my hand, expecting to push it away with magic.Instead, the wind curled around my fingers. It twisted gently between them like it was alive before settling against my palm. I stared at it in shock. Jasper stopped beside me.“Did you do that?”“I don’t know.” The wind disappeared.Jaspe