Nadia
My heart thumped so loudly that I could hear my blood rushing in my ears, all the way back to my dorm.
But I wasn’t crying. I wasn’t thinking about Vincent or Kael or politics or being an unwanted mate or anything else that had happened today. I was hustling to my dormitory under the cloudy afternoon sky, and holding on by a thread.
The tunnel vision of my own intense emotions blinded me. I didn’t even see her there by the dormitory entrance, lying in wait for me. I only realised what was happening after a harsh grip on my arm stopped me from opening the door and pulled me away from the building, off into the woods that surrounded the dorm.
“Don’t fight, wolfless,” Freda hissed in my ear. “Kael’s not here to supervise this time.”
I almost ripped my arm out of her grip anywa
