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I looked at him challengingly.

“Orwhat?”

He didn’t seem to be used to people contradicting him, because for a moment he dropped out of his unapproachable façade and looked at me, slightly annoyed.

But it didn’t take long before he came closer, leaning with his hands on the table past Bay so that we were only half a meter apart.

His eyes were dark, like the night, black as wet wood so that they formed a strong contrast to his pale skin. Then there were the ravens circling in the sky behind him, like predators.

Adrian leaned forward a little more and my body tensed.

“You’ll regret talking to me like that.”

I sucked in the air lightly through my lips. His gaze seemed to linger on them for a moment.

If the others hadn’t been here now, I would be lying on this table with Adrian pressed against me, just like in the art room.

The thought turned me on. I didn’t know why, but it sent a pleasant shiver down my spine. He was frightening, and yet a part of me desired his dark nature.

Adrenaline spread through me. But that wasn’t a bad thing.On the contrary.He was right. I loved playing with fire. And I loved the danger even more.

“We have to get to the lecture, Adrian,” the blonde reminded him and Adrian pulled away from me.

He looked at me one last time, his eyes full of desire, as if he wanted to make my fantasy come true. As if that hadn’t been our last encounter.

A strong feeling, a longing, pure desire spread through me. And I knew that this wouldn’t be our last encounter.

Deep down, I wanted him to come and take me into his dark little world, kidnap me piece by piece.

I stared after him as he walked in the middle. And in that moment, I knew. He would come for me. Whether I wanted him to or not.

Chapter 47

Julie

“Hey, you, computer nerd...”

I looked up from my laptop in confusion at Grace, who was waving her car key in front of my face.

“What did you say?” I asked, because I’d been focused on the codes on the screen in front of me until now. I had tried again and again via the university’s database, but somehow the IT security team of Vanderwood University had managed to replace the old firewall with a better one. As a result, I only had limited access to the lecture overviews and none at all to the students’ files.

I had been too slow.

“I’m going to Moenia again. Amara said she needed me for a healing ritual, and I also need a few ingredients for the bracelets.”

If I hadn’t been Julie, I would have rolled my eyes right now. Grace wassoscared of the Copelands and the DeLoughreys that she wanted to make silver bracelets with wolfsbane extract for both of us.

“I’ll be back in an hour.”

I looked at her, nodding, as she grabbed her black denim jacket and disappeared through the door of our large shared room.

Grace had disappeared at just the right time because it was 9 pm and Larissa had dragged Bayla to Midnights to meet Mady there. She had been raving to Bayla about Ezra, Mady’s brother, the whole time. And Emely wouldn’t show up until midnight, anyway.

The door to the room opened and a condescending-looking Vivienna peeked through the crack, looking around before her disapproving gaze lingered on me.

“Where’s Grace?”

Despite the urge to avoid her gaze, I studied her eyes.

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