Lahat ng Kabanata ng Claimed by Professor Alpha: Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 4

Elena’s POV: Life clearly has a way of catching us by surprises… and I can’t say that I hate surprises anymore. Three weeks ago, I was still folding my shirts into a suitcase in my childhood bedroom back in Millbrook, trying to tell myself that it wasn’t a dream anymore. Getting into Ashcombe University hadn’t felt real yet, not really – not when I randomly filled their online application form to check my luck, and even not when the acceptance email landed in my inbox at eleven at night while I sat cross-legged on my bed eating ice cream out of the box, and not three weeks later either, packing up seventeen years of my life into two suitcases and a duffel bag that refused to be zipped. Ashcombe’s Behavioural Sciences program was the kind of thing I used to dream about and circle in college brochures back in high school, half-convinced it was too far out of reach to actually get into. And yet here I was… time really changes fast. My mother was always the emotional one among my par

Elena’s POV: I didn’t get a wink of sleep that night. I spent most of the night staring at the ceiling of my dorm room and recounting the events of the night – the growl and the suspicious behaviour of Kane. The growl kept echoing over and over in my head until it stopped feeling like a sound and more like a warning. By the time my alarm went off, I was already wide awake, my body protesting from sleeplessness while my mind refused to rest. I went through my morning routine in robotic manner – my body performing all the daily tasks but my mind refused to stay quiet and register any motion. I even burnt my toast, lost in my thoughts and not realising it until the smell of charred bread spread across the whole room and Maya groaned in her sleep while muttering something unintelligible and covered her head with the pillow. “I’m sorry,” I muttered. “You’re doing that thing again,” she said, her voice muffled against the pillow, “What happened?” “Nothing happened.” “Uh-huh