Allen Library Novels & Stories

“Of course. A good Alpha must have a good library.” He opened the door. I gasped. The library was huge. It was three floors tall with shelves that reached the ceiling. There were ladders on wheels, soft chairs, reading tables and lamps that glowed gently. Sunlight streamed through tall windows and made the dust in the air look like tiny stars. “This is…” I could barely speak. “Amazing.” Lucien watched my reaction with a smile. “I thought you might like it.” “I love it,” I said without thinking. “I love reading.”

he hesitated, his eyes snapping to me, “catch up.” “Of course,” Aaron said. “Thank you for bringing her. I’ll show you to the library.” We followed Aaron down a hallway on the first floor. “Isn’t the library upstairs?” I said. That’s where he’d brought me the first time I’d been here, to learn about the Werewolf-Human War. “That’s the research library. This is the recreational library,” Aaron said as if it were normal for one to have two libraries in their personal home. He ushered us into a room full of bookshelves dotted with comfortable furniture.

AMBERLY The dust motes danced lazily in the dim, yellow light filtering through the high cathedral windows of the library's fourth-floor archives. Sitting cross-legged underneath a massive, solid oak reading table, I buried my face in my hands. The thick smell of decaying paper and old leather binding offered a tiny fraction of comfort. Nobody ever came up to the fourth floor. It was entirely reserved for ancient university records. My heart rate finally started to decelerate. The crushing anxiety of the biology lab slowly released its grip on my lungs.

The library was too quiet. The unnatural stillness of the room, the room that had learned to keep secrets. Althea felt it the moment she stepped inside. The heavy doors closed behind her with a soft, final click, as she entered the room, sealing her in among shelves of leather-bound volumes and the faint scent of old paper and polished wood. Aurelio Valtieri stood by the long central table, his back to her, hands clasped behind him as he studied a framed ancestral crest mounted on the wall.

Dante said. "You were here at seven and you left," she said. "This time you'll see it properly." She paused. "There's a library near the house. Still there. I walked past it last week before the hip decided to be dramatic." Dante looked at her. "The same library?" he said. "It's been there since 1906," she said. "It doesn't go anywhere." She held his gaze. "The mathematics section is on the second floor. Left side."

“Then, shall we call it a night? “ He went straight to the door and said, “I will come back tomorrow to tutor you. By the way, muffin, I brought the books you requested on our last session. It’s on the small office inside this library.” I nodded slowly, “Okay…Thank you…” Gerber escorted Count Vlad out of the mansion. Atlas got back on her chores while I was left inside the library, searching for the door to the office that Lord Minir was talking about. As I was strolling through the wide shelves, the smell of aged books mixed with dust the lingered in my nostril. None of them must have used the library that’s why it’s this dirty. The cobwebs are untouched, sleeping in their own homes in the

“ I need to go to the library to take a book for the next subject , The teacher said that he will lower our points if we did not have that book . I nearly forgot about it . Aron , you also need to come with me . “ said Ayla . “ Can’t you take the books yourself ? “ asked Aron . “ I can not take mine , myself . I can’t take yours as well . The librarian lady won’t allow me . “ said Ayla . “ What a pain ! We need to go to that stuffy room again . “ said Aron who was really fed up with the library . “ Ha ha ha ha ! My brother has never been so much in a library before . It’s understandable that he is annoyed . “ said Amra with a laugh .

I searched for the words in the note. What is annoying, is that we are not allowed to use cellular phones inside the school. It was mentioned in rule twelve, which makes us spend a lot of time researching in a library. The good thing? The library here is huge. It has twenty chambers that took over two-fourths of the school grounds. And we were given access to the old ways to live our life. For example, using candles as light. Before we sleep, we make sure to get baskets of candles from the Chamber of Lights.

Moments later, Anna pulled up in her car, rolling down the window. “I don’t know what you’re up to, but whatever it is better be good,” Anna teased, raising an eyebrow. Rhea chuckled softly. “It will be, I promise.” She climbed in, and they drove through the town toward the nearest public library. The building was large and elegant, with arched windows and ivy creeping along its stone walls. It had an old, almost magical feel to it. Inside, the air was thick with the scent of aged paper and ink. The space was vast, filled with tall wooden shelves that stretched from wall to wall, every inch lined with books.