All Chapters of CHASED BY FOUR MATES AT WOLFORD ACADEMY: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

ELVIRA'S POV——∆♣§§♣∆——Daphne woke up the entire dorm by standing in the middle of the living room on Saturday morning. She announced, at a volume that students outside our dorm could hear her, that today is the day I eat my first Wolford kill with them all."It's the rule for new dorm mates," she says when I groan into my pillow that early morning. "It is a non-negotiable roommate law for us. I didn't make the rules, Elvi… I’m just enforcing them viciously.""Daphne, you made those rules yourselves," I replied to her while smiling"It doesn't make the law any less real."We're going to be on the treeline by ten for the hunting. All four of us signed in at the little building by the boundary of the school and the forest. Lexa was still complaining that it was too early for anything that requires shoes with laces to be worn by her to the forest. The forest smells different this morning than it did when I came here with Eliano during the week. It was cooler and wetter. Everything was s

ELVIRA'S POVI woke up one year older today.I looked around, but nothing felt different today. I was so disappointed.The ceiling still had the same crack that Daphne swears resembles a wolf. I could still feel the same warmth on my wrist from last night.I lay in bed longer than I should have. I was waiting for the world to announce itself to me, or at least give me a sign.My door burst open, and Daphne, Anika, and Lexa walked in in pajamas. They ruined my quiet moment by pouncing on my bed.“Happy birthday, Elvi!” Daphne was holding a cake. To my surprise, the cake was on fire… not as decoration. It was actually on fire. Lexi immediately patted a towel over it to stop it from burning.“Daphne, I said you shouldn’t light the candle yet,” Anika said, laughing too hard. She didn’t bother helping out."I just panicked.""So you panicked and decided to set my birthday on fire.""Happy birthday," Daphne says once again, dropping the smoking cake on my nightstand. "We also got you a cand

ELVIRA'S POVI didn't remember most of my walk back to my dorm.I remembered only cold air hitting my face when I stepped outside. Anika was curled up on the sofa when I walked into the room. She took one look at my face and sat straight up facing me."Elvi…. What happened?"I opened my mouth to say something, but words failed me. I sat down next to her and told her about my vision; the whole room went quiet. I saw three faces, and I doubted how possible my vision was. I told her what Sir Albert said to me and how I noticed he wasn't telling me the whole truth.I didn't tell her about the hunter's part. That part of the vision was locked down tight where nobody could reach it, not even Anika."You saw three faces; how possible can this be?" Anika said slowly. She was more confused than I have ever seen her look before. "Elvi, that can't be possible. I mean, nobody has ever had that type of vision.""I know, Anika. Sir Albert told me so too.""Do you think your vision is a mistake?""

ELVIRA'S POVI didn't sleep at all after the left. I didn't even try.By the time the sunlight came up in the morning, I'd replayed the last twenty-four hours so many times I could, and only one thought still rang in my head… Did Eliano know about all this and kept it to himself?He had always watched me in so many ways I can imagine, and he had shown up for me whenever I needed him, which at this point felt too real to be a coincidence. He even told me before I went to Sir Albert’s office and before all this started that whatever happens tonight, I’ll be alright. He said it like he already knew this would be the outcome.=======I found Eliano during breakfast, alone at our usual table, stirring a cup of tea."We need to talk now, Eliano," I said to him. I sat down across from him without asking for his permission."Good morning, Elvira." He said in a low tone."Did you know about all this and kept quiet?"There was something on his face that shifted, and that was all the answer I ne

ELVIRA'S POVThe east stairwell was one of the quietest corners of the entire school. I stood behind a maintenance closet nobody uses anymore, and Xavier leaned against the wall across from me, his arms loose at his sides."I've wanted to say this properly for a while now," he said. "I just never had a good reason until now.""You can say what you want to say, am all ears."He took a deep breath, which showed he had rehearsed this more than once and still wasn’t sure it was going to come out right.He studied me for a few seconds, as if he was deciding where to actually start from. "I felt something the first day you walked into mathematics class. Even before I knew your name and before any of this came up. Even before the flame or the vision…. I just told myself it was nothing and it didn’t mean anything on its own."But what changed?" I asked him"But then Gideon said the same thing about you a week later after he met you. And then Rafael confirmed his bonding attraction to you too.