All Chapters of CHASED BY FOUR MATES AT WOLFORD ACADEMY: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

ELVIRA'S POV——∆♣§§♣∆——The dorm door swings open even before I knocked. I get tackled by a wall of golden-brown hair."Elvi! You made it! I’m happy to see you"Anika hasn't changed a bit at all since I last saw her — She is still looking amazing in that effortless way I have known her. With her heart-shaped face, hair falling all the way down to her waist, her cupid's-bow lips currently stretched into the widest grin I've seen in a year. She pulls back to look at me. I laughed for the first real time since my parents dropped in this school.Anika came in with two other girls. One of the girls has thick, dark-rimmed glasses. She has black hair in pigtails, giving off serious secret-genius energy. The other girl has red hair scraped into a messy bun and a spray of freckles. She has a smile that's already contagious from across the room."Girls, this is Elvi. We went to high school together." Anika introduces me as she points at me. "This is Lexa and Daphne, my roommates," Anika added.

ELVIRA'S POV——∆♣§§♣∆——My flame stays yellow a beat too long, flickering like it's deciding which color to turn into. My hands curl into fists while I wait for the final color of the flame. Then red blooms in the center and floods outward until the whole thing burns crimson.Red.I have the red flame. A bit of relief crashes through my body so hard my knees actually shake."Congratulations, Elvira," Sir Albert says warmly. "You'll find your mate soon enough."I pulled my arm back and rolled my sleeve down, while fumbling with the buttons... A smile awakened on my face."Keep your tattoo clean; don't pick at it. Somewhere in the next seven to ten days it'll turn scarlet. When it does, come straight back here and put your wrist to the flame again… that's when you'll get your vision of your mate.""Thank you." Those were the only words that left my mouth.I left the building lighter than I've felt in months. I've already memorized the map to the common room. I headed to the common room

ELVIRA'S POV——∆♣§§♣∆——Guilt landed like a stone in my stomach after I made my last comment to Eliano about being Wolford royalty. "Eli... I'm sorry…""Please don't feel bad. I'm sorry if my words hurt you, Eli... I snapped." He exhaled, his shoulders dropping. "It doesn't matter to me anymore. They're not that lucky, just as you think. They still haven't found their mate yet."I glanced down at my own wrist, my tattoo pulsing faintly under my sleeve. I haven't found my mate either.What if one of the three is my mate?Yeah. Keep dreaming all you want, Elvira.Would I even want to be a mate to one of the three?"I really don’t know," I mumble, mostly to fill the silence in my head."Everyone, back to your mats!" a teacher bellows, and the little moment I was having with Eliano breaks apart. Eliano and I spent the rest of the lesson laughing our way through drills, harmless flirting through all of it. I liked whatever was brewing between Eliano and me… whatever this is, the easy frien

ELVIRA'S POV——∆♣§§♣∆——Wednesday morning was Philosophy and Mythology class first. Just like before, Rafael strolls in five minutes late. The whole room looks up on instinct, tracking him the way you'd track a storm on a weather report. He doesn't seem to care about the stares at all. I suspect he's used to it by now… the kind of used-to-it that comes from years of being stared at, not weeks of getting used to stares.He drops into the seat beside me and starts copying notes. He was only bothered with certain lines while taking down his notes… he clearly wasn’t writing down everything the teacher said. But every answer he gave the teacher was correct. His handwriting isn't what I expected it to be either. I'd have guessed he had messy handwriting. Instead, it was genuinely beautiful — looping, deliberate calligraphy, as if someone taught him writing out of an old manuscript.Business studies class was next. I took my usual seat, and for the first time all week, the chair beside me wa

ELVIRA'S POV——∆♣§§♣∆——I glanced over my shoulder to find Rafael standing at my back. And for once there's no trademark scowl anywhere on his face. He actually smiles whenever our eyes meet."Um — the teacher was about to show me in a min—" I started, but he was already sliding the knife out of my fingers.I lost the rest of the sentence the second our skin touched. I felt the same static shock as before, minus the sting, zipping straight up to my arm. Rafael took the knife, stepped in close, and rested a hand lightly against my lower back. My skin prickles under it."First — you'll want almost double the distance you've got now," he says with his voice low.We walked back together, with five extra feet backwards."You might need to adjust it on each throw, find your own range." He hands the knife back to me, then reaches over and corrects my grip, tip angled skyward. "Use medium force with a deep breath, find your aim and throw."I inhaled, got my focus on the target, exhaled as I s