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And I was an idiot trying to negotiate with a Ruisangor. The very idea was absurd.

You have a death wish, Bayla.

“I’ll expect you on campus the day after tomorrow in the last courtyard of the East Wing. Ten o’clock in the evening and not a minute later.”

Relief spread through me and I nodded, unsettled, because I had just saved my life.Bastien DeLoughrey could have killed me...

I heard a car come to a halt in front of the house. It had to be Mum.

“Drink this if the smell gets too strong. If anything, that isn’t of human or animal nature and can only be traced back toyou,is happening in this town, you’ll be dead before you can blink.”

And then he simply disappeared through the open window. Just as I had found it.

Five minutes later, I was hanging over the toilet seat, vomiting the blood I had drunk. And it was another ten minutes before I was able to flush.

I washed my mouth and brushed my teeth for at least another ten minutes while my nausea disappeared. And all that remained was a stinging sensation between my breasts.

Chapter 30

Emely

Missile

Dorothy

Seething with rage, I stormed across the busy campus. I could feel the stares of the guys in the pack at my back.

Fine. Then they were just about to watch me kick the ass of a Ruisangor who didn’t know his limits.

I had my eyes on the Lamborghini, which he had actually parked next to my dark green jeep.Again!

He was leaning against his car with his hands in his pockets, talking to the platinum-blond Ruisangor, an amused smile on his lips.He was about to lose it!

“Oh no,” I growled with my lips pressed together, rushing through the students who willingly made space for me. “Not with me.”

As if Miles had heard me from a distance, his head turned in my direction. His smile faded. I wish I could have captured this moment.

“Emely?” I heard Cody behind me. He must have followed me.

Focused, I sped up, approaching Miles, not even intending to stop.

Miles DeLoughrey had pulled out the guns with his St. John’s wort concentrate move on Saturday, and I wasn’t going to let that sit on me.

“I’ll kill you!” the words escaped my mouth, and I lunged toward the bastard.

My hands grabbed Miles’ far too strong shoulders.

The Ruisangor next to him moved aside, and immediately, I felt the eyes of half the campus on me.

But my focus was on Miles’ deep brown eyes. Just like on Saturday, when an inner voice of sanity had forced me to let him live when I would have loved to tear him apart.

He hadlicked my bloodfrom his ridiculous knife. The mere memory sent goosebumps down my spine, accompanied by a strange tingling sensation, which I skillfully suppressed.

“Wow!Emely,” Cody exclaimed behind me and in the corner of my eye, I saw other guys from the pack rushing toward us and the blond handsome man next to Miles trying to step in, but Miles raised a reassuring hand in his direction.

I then pushed him harder against his swanky car, clawing through his black shirt.

Miles’ jaw began to work, and I could see him stifle a groan of pain as he scrunched up his face slightly.

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