Todos los capítulos de CHASED BY FOUR MATES AT WOLFORD ACADEMY: Capítulo 21 - Capítulo 30

ELVIRA'S POVGideon didn’t say any other thing. He just stepped back, putting a good distance between us for the first time since we started conversing. I watched his face go blank in a way that hurt more than shouting would have."Gideon," I called out."I'm fine... catch up with him if that's what you need to do.""I don’t need to do that.""Really." He says it calmly, without malice in his voice. “But you’ve been staring at the treeline since he walked into it.”I hated that he was right."I'm not choosing him over you," I said. "In fact, I'm not choosing anyone over anyone. I’ve explained that to you already.""I heard you loud and clear." He said, picking up his wraps from on top of the bench. I watched him wind them slowly around his knuckles like the motion was the only thing keeping him steady to talk. "But it hurts to watch you worry about him more than you’re worrying about this argument we were having.”I didn’t know what to say in that moment. He wasn’t entirely wrong, and

ELVIRA'S POVEliano opened the door swiftly before I could do it.Xavier was out of breath in the hallway; it was obvious he ran all the way here. Gideon was behind him… he looked worse; one of his eyes was swollen, and his knuckles—which I saw an hour ago were bleeding."What happened to you?" I said while moving toward him."Susan happened," Xavier said grimly. "She spoke about the four of us in the dining hall. Half of the school heard her say it, and Gideon didn’t take it well.”"I took it exactly the way it deserved to be taken," Gideon muttered, wincing as Anika pressed a cloth to his eyebrow."What did she say?""That doesn’t matter," Gideon said at the exact moment Xavier said, "It matters a little."“She insinuated that Elvira arranged all of this on purpose to get attention.” Xavier’s jaw tightened saying it. “Gideon disagreed loudly with his fist after three separate people asked her to stop and she didn’t.”He got hauled by Mrs. Bellarie,” Xavier said. “That won’t go well.

ELVIRAFor the obvious reason, Mrs. Pruitt didn’t like what just heard. Before we could get interrogated by her, the morning bell rang, dragging us back to being students who supposedly were already late for breakfast. She gave us that look that says, what are these two up to, then waved us out. I walked to the dining hall thinking about it instead of paying attention to what Eliano was saying beside me.The rest of the day passed without Eliano saying anything about the archive again. I didn’t push about it because I didn’t want to shut the small door he opened up in front of Mrs. Pruitt. Some things needed to breathe before being poked again. I’d never seen Eliano this way before—he was quieter than usual during Alchemy class. It was so bad that Professor Marchetti called him out twice before he heard the question being thrown at him. I caught him staring at nothing at least three different times across the day, like his mind was still in the records room.In the evening, I convince

ELVIRAThe silence lasted for long enough to make my heart beat the loudest in the clearing grounds."Rafael," Gideon called out; his voice was lighter than a whisper. "Talk to us.""Something is out there." Rafael's eyes were fixated on the treeline. "But it’s not moving. It's just standing there, watching us.""You say watching us, or watching the clearing?" Xavier asked, getting up slightly."I don't know yet."Gideon's hand moved to the small knife he always kept at his belt. He just rested his fingers against it without drawing it.Eliano shifted closer to me—the same instinct that usually put him between me and trouble a lot of times this yearAnd then the wind shifted strangely.The air hit my face, and the scent that passed me was something identical. My concern was that it had no business surfacing on a warm afternoon in the middle of the forest.Then the clearing disappeared.I was now somewhere wet, darker, with the cold ground pressing my knee. I heard a low, rough voice s

ELVIRAThey all looked at my phone for a long moment without saying a word. The words on the screen became somehow louder than anything any of us could have said out loud."Okay." Xavier was the first to move, crouching slightly like he needed to get lower to think clearly. "Let's be methodical about this. Who could have heard what you just told us?""Nobody," Gideon replied. "We were at the boundary. There was nobody out here.""There's always somebody; we didn’t just see them." Xavier turned in a slow circle. He scanned the treeline the way he'd scanned it a dozen times already that afternoon. "It could be a prefect on patrol. Or a student who wandered off from a hunt. Or someone walking the long way back to their dorm.""We would have smelled them," Rafael said. "Or heard them. You don't just sneak up on four werewolves in the open air.""Unless they weren't close enough to need to sneak."That silenced everyone for a second. I hadn't thought about range. I'd been so focused on the