Chapter 36 Balls
SERAPHINA
“And you say you aren’t seducing me.”
The moment Ronan’s words hit the air, the weight of what I’d just done crashed into me like a freight train. I had slipped. I’d broken character–not Seth, but Seraphina. I touched Ronan like a…I leaned in close, invaded his space. On top of that I did it in front of the very Alphas I was supposed to fool.
I immediately let go of his hair and stepped back with a smoothness that masked my panic–controlled, casual, as if I hadn’t just nearly blown everything. I didn’t meet Ronan’s gaze. I couldn’t. Instead, I turned to face the bastards in front of me.
Behind me, Ronan let out a low, amused laugh. I heard the scrape of a chair dragging across the concrete, and then the creak of wood as he sat in front of the rotting door–sin personified. One leg crossed over the other, cigarette glowing between his fingers.
“Give me a good show, Alpha Seth Darven,” he murmured, smoke curling around his jaw like a halo turned to ash.
I glanced at him over my shoulder, shooting him a blank look. He just smiled, that irritatingly handsome smirk that somehow made things worse.
I tore my eyes away and focused on the circle of Alphas. Most of them were tense, Ronan’s presence unnerving them. But not Reed.
He grinned like the devil with a secret.
“Hey Darven,” Reed called, “you should’ve cried for help from your new watchdog over there. But since your pathetic ego wouldn’t let you, let’s walk you straight into hell, yeah?”
Laughter erupted behind him.
I said nothing. I stared at them–blank–faced, calm, quiet. But something inside me cracked. Their laughter scraped across my nerves like glass on bone.
“Why did you hurt Finn?” I asked quietly.
“What?” Reed made a mocking face.
“You should’ve come for me, you coward. You didn’t need to hurt my friend,” I said, my voice barely more than a murmur, but laced with steel.
The amusement drained from his eyes. My calm unnerved him.
He clenched his fists, nostrils flaring. “Still playing cocky, you little shit? How dare you look at me like I’m beneath you?!”
He roared and charged, Cassius and the others followed behind him like rabid dogs. The only advantage I had in this fight was that none of them could shift. Shifting without permission on the Academy grounds was a punishable act and they could all be kicked out. Because the Alpha instructors would immediately feel that someone had shifted and broken the rules.
Reed lunged, half–shifted claws aiming for my throat.
I dodged, barely,
His claws sliced the air where my neck had been.
I spun and launched myself at Cassius, the nearest body, climbed his broad frame, and slammed his skull into the ground with a sickening thud.
Everything stopped for half a second.
The Alphas froze, shocked.
Reed stared at Cassius‘ groaning form, wide–eyed.
I met Reed’s eyes, and let my wolf rise.
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“I told you to stay away from me.” I growled, my voice layered with my wolf’s furious gaze. “Now you’ll dies
Rage overtook him.
“You-!” he spat, blood rising in his eyes. “You’ll regret this!”
He charged again, snarling. The others followed.
And Ronan?
He didn’t move. Didn’t speak.
Just sauthere smoking, eyes trained on me–not missing a single twitch, a single breath. Even mid–fight, I could feel the bur ofhis gaze on my skin.
The first impact came fast–a blur of fists and claws. My body moved on instinct, honed from years of training. My fist slammed into someone’s ribs. Another grabbed for me, I twisted and drove my elbow into his throat. I felt cartilage collapse Theneath mysstrike..
Onediown.
Whee
Sillthey came.
Apunch split againstmy check–sharp, stinging. I hissed and snapped my leg upward, landing a brutal kick into Cassius’s chestras he tried to recover. Ele crashed into a rusted crate with a guttural groan.
Another stille. Reed again. Ihalf–shifted my arm and rammed my knuckles into his nose. Blood gushed. I followed with a kick strugghhumolisggut, llaundhing him back into the charging Alphas.
They fell Stranilitoist.
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Ishatteredithein rhythm–broke than hones, cracked skulls, left them gasping on the floor.
“FUCK!” Read round ditching his nibsaftor drove an elbow deep into his side.
He staggered!
Growling like a maddened bust, he frodhimself upright again.
Then-
Cassius lunged at me from behind..
I turned to counter him, only for Read to move like ashhuttowlidhindlime kooliast
Something glinted in his hand.
Metal.
A rod.
I pivoted just barely,
It slammed into my forearm instead of my skuili
Agony flared white–hot. I gritted my teeth.
didn’t stop.
surged forward, driving my knee into his gut
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He folded
Spar blood.
Still, he grinned through it.
“You’re nothing but a weak link.” he growled. “I’m going to kill you today, you fucking freak!”
My fist disagreed.
The room spun with motion. Broken breath. Scuffling boots. Grunts and snarls and the dry scent of rage.
I was all ready to turn it all towards the end when suddenly something slipped from a pocket.
It hit the floor with a soft thund and rolled around.
Something round.
Black.
Something familiar, a smell.
No.
I froze.
I knew that smell.
My eyes widened as I bent down, heart lurching. I plucked in from the cracked floor, squeezed it open and the scent nearly knocked me to my knees.
My heat.
That scent mixed in cologne. The one Ronan wore. The one that made everything worse. That made my body scream for things I couldn’t have.”
This berry’s smell exactly.
The one that made my body betray me. The one that made me ache, burn, crave.
This wasn’t a coincidence.
This was deliberate.
I looked up.
Reed.
The bastard stood there, feigning confusion–but his lips twitched with something else.
“You…” My voice came out hollow. Shaking. “You did this?”
He blinked, feigned innocence.
Cassius chuckled behind him. “Oh, now he gets it.”
Reed paled, just for a moment, then grinned. An ugly, victorious grin.
“Yeah,” he said. “I mixed ut. You were supposed to go into rut. Lose control. Parade your pathetic file self around the arena- naked, desperate, fucked senseless by Alpha Ronan because he was wearing it and should have been affected too and lose hus
enses enough to understand gender and just fuck you.”
My chest constricted. And once my eyes met with Ronan’s calm ones I realised he knew about this berry mixed in his cologne.
You were supposed to be humiliated. Ruined. But you got lucky. It didn’t work. Too bad.”
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He tilted his head. “Guess I’ll just kill you instead.”
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My whole body froze at the revelation and all I could see was them laughing. They thought I would go into rut but I actually went into heat. Their plan had actually succeeded and my whole future would have been ruined and sealed with the fate that my father had prescribed for me. I was about to lose myself, my existence and my everything. All because of…them.
“You wanted to see my balls?” I murmured, voice disturbingly calm.
I crouched and picked up a jagged shard of broken glass from the shattered window.
Panic sparked in their eyes.
“Hey hey! Fucker! What the hell are you doing?!“,
I straightened.
“Now I want to have your balls…” I raised my eyes and smiled at them, “…in my hand,”
DANTE
With one leg crossed over the other, I sipped my coffee, eyes fixed on the chaos unfolding across the Academy grounds. The bitter warmth coated my tongue as the taste lingered–rich, slow, and deliberate.
A shadow loomed beside me. One of my wolves leaned in, his voice low against the shell of my ear.
“The in–fighting has begun.”
A slow smile curved my lips behind the rim of the cup. “What a bad thing to do.”
I put it down, got up and walked away with a smile.
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