All Chapters of Bound to the Alpha She Was Raised to Hate : Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

Odessa pov Chaos doesn't sound like people think it does. It's not screaming. It's boots on stone, too many voices layered wrong, someone's mother sobbing into a phone three feet from a guard yelling for everyone to stay calm while his own hands were shaking.Julian didn't let go of my arm until we were shoved into a side corridor with a dozen other students, all of us pressed against cold stone while guards sealed the main doors behind us."Are you hurt?" He turned me by the shoulders like he needed to check for himself."I'm fine." I wasn't, really. My pulse hadn't slowed down since the glass cracked. "Julian, I'm fine.""You don't look fine." His eyes kept darting past me, toward the hall, toward the noise. "A scout's dead. On our border. Do you understand what that means?""I heard him the same as you did.""It means Corvin's going to lose his mind trying to figure out who to blame." He said it low, almost to himself, and for once the polish dropped off his voice completely. "And

Odessa pov The dining hall smelled like woodsmoke and roasted meat and something underneath that I still hadn't figured out how to name. Warm, wild, the smell of too many bodies that ran hotter than mine crammed into one room.I stood in the doorway for exactly before every single conversation in there died.Great. Perfect. Exactly the entrance I was hoping for.Long tables ran the length of the room, packed shoulder to shoulder with people who all had one thing in common, none of them wanted me here. I felt it land on me the second I stepped inside, that particular kind of silence that isn't really silence at all, just everyone deciding at once not to talk while they stared."There's a seat at the end," someone muttered, not even bothering to look at me while they said it.Of course there was. Furthest one from the fire, closest to the door, exactly where you'd put someone you wanted gone the second dinner ended.I made myself walk slowly. Rule three. Don't flinch.Micah was already