Chapter 84 Silent Strings And Shattered Glass
SERAPHINA
The Academy was larger than it seemed from the outside, an endless labyrinth of halls, training grounds, towers, and weapon chambers carved into ancient stone and reinforced with modern steel. I had spent almost an hour showing Ryker around. guiding him through each floor with practiced words and clipped explanations.
Yet for all my efforts, the silence behind me remained heavy and unnerving.
He hadn’t said a word.
Not even a grunt of acknowledgement.
I close. His boots silent despite their weight,
uld feel his constant presence. Always a few steps behind. Close, but nevert his gaze a phantom heat I couldn’t shake.
It wasn’t the Academy he was watching.
It was me. I could feel it and it had me and my wolf restless deep in our heart.
If Ronan and Ryker had not gotten so close to each other to the point where they were close to ripping each other’s throats out. I would never have agreed to this. I just did not want a fight to break out because of me, it would attract too much attention. However, I never considered that this tour was going to be this nerve wracking.
His aura was enough for me to realize that he was someone that I should not mingle with. He was dangerous.
His silence wasn’t from disinterest, it was deliberate. Measured. Observant.
Predatory.
Every time I turned a corner or climbed a stairwell, I could feel his eyes following the curve of my back, the sway of my hips. the tension in my shoulders. It made my skin crawl beneath the fabric of my uniform. I had been moving carefully, my strides and voice like a man but still the uncomfortable feeling kept rising in my chest. Now I just cursed the fact that Lupine Academy was so damn large.
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When we finally reached the far end of the western corridor, I stopped and gestured to the high–arched entry that split restricted paths.
“This is where the tour ends,” I said, keeping my tone composed. “From here begins the Hierarchy Dorms that you must know by now since your room is located there, Alpha instructor’s offices, the strategy command halls…and many places that I am not aware of and I’m not allowed to access.”
I’m
His blue eyes stared at, me quietly with a strange silence that tightened my muscles. It was almost as if he had been waiting for me to say something else.
I didn’t wait for him to respond, I turned slightly, ready to excuse myself.
Until he lifted a hand and pointed.
“What about that door, he said simply. The first words he’d spoken since we started
I followed his finger. The large wooden door to the side.
My stomach twisted.
“The music room?” I asked before I could stop myself.
“Show me that room,” he stated:
My hands shook slightly beside me I noticed that music room one day. It was out of place in an academy where the Alphas minds were filled with tight, trials, war and winning a soundproofed chamber filled with instruments that almost no one
I always avoided even glancing at this room because. “It’s just a music room,” I stated.
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He stared at me once again but this time it felt like he was studying me, “You hate music?”
1 secretly clenched my pants. He read me.
A dull ache formed in my chest, unwelcome and all too familiar.
It was the only space here that held softness. Memory. Melody. Her. My mother.
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My mother was a perfect luna. A mate, a mother and a warrior. So of course she loved music. She used to play piano for me and my father loved that part of her. He used to link her musical talents with that of a woman’s perfection.
But after she died, my father started forcing me to learn the piano instead of paying attention to combat and fighting. For him fighting was just a part of the life of a woman, that it was enough to learn self defense and that was it. But my dream was different, bigger, for that he actually called me a rebel. When I did not obey him, he burnt down the music room out of anger..I treasured that music room; it was the largest physical representation of my mother’s memory that she left behind.
That was the moment I had experienced another big loss in my life. From that day onward I had cut music or anything related to it from my life. But now.it could not be avoided. I wanted to end this tour quickly.
“Why would I hate it?” I met his gaze without any emotions and turned to the door. “This way,” I muttered, pushing the door open and stepping inside.
The room was dim, bathed in silver light from the tall stained–glass window behind the grand piano, Dust clung to the corners. The cello stood untouched, violins still strung but forgotten. A harp sat like a ghost in the corner.
“There’s not much here,” I said, turning slightly to glance at Ryker. “Just instruments. The Academy doesn’t exactly-
Click
The sound sliced through my spine.
My head snapped toward the door just as I heard the soft snick of the lock sliding into place. Did he just lock the door?
“What do you think you’re doing?” I asked sharply, taking a step back from the piano.
He didn’t reply.
He just started walking
Slow. Measured.
Like a predator closing in on prey. My wolf grew alert in my at the same time a panic rose in my chest with his sudden
shifting aura.
Has eyes were darker now, something unreadable brewing behind them.
something going on between you and Ronan?” he asked, voice low, silk wrapped around steel.
My breath lutched for a fraction of a second, but I masked it with a
I started to instinctively back away, my pulse drumming
Ryker’s lips curved into a smile. “So there’s nothing?”
my veins. “Who the hell are you to
glare. “What nonsense are you talking about?!”
me such question பப think I’ll cower under these creepy actions of yours? Just take one step closer and I swear, I’ll rip your
you
Before I could fish, its a lalink he was suddenly there Right in front of me.
His hand wrapped around my waist with a grip that made my breath freeze. His speed wasn’t normal, not even by Alpha standards No sound. No warning
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“You better not be lying. he murmured, his breath brushing against my cheek. “or I might really be disappointed.”
I stared at him stunned, furious, locked in place by the darkness flickering behind his smile.
Then-
CRASH.
The window behind me shattered into a thousand sparkling shards, the cold air rushing in like a storm.
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Before I could understand anything or move, a pair of strong hands wrapped around my arms and yanked me back, out of Ryker’s grasp, right into the solid wall of another body.
My heart thundered in my throat.
Then I smelled him.
Ronan.
His arm banded across my chest, keeping me pressed against him as he faced Ryker with a glare so sharp it could have cut glass.
“Then it’s time for you to be disappointed,” Ronan growled, responding to Ryker, his voice a thunderous promise, “because I already have a thing for him,” he declared.
My heart skipped a beat..
What did he just say?
