Under His Watchful Eyes
Even from behind, he radiated a kind of predatory stillness that made the hair on my arms stand up.
"Mr. Vane?" I whispered.
He turned.
His eyes were the first thing I noticed. Ocean blue, cold as a winter tide, and filled with a terrifyingly familiar intensity.
He looked at me, and for a split second, I felt like a freshman again, standing in the library at St. Jude’s Academy, trembling under the gaze of the school's untouchable king.
But that was impossible.
Julian Vane had been a legend, a boy years ahead of me. He wouldn't remember a quiet girl from the back of the assembly hall.