Page 147 of A University of Betrayal

Her exclamation turned into a menacing growl as her clothes ripped, and this time I did take three more steps back, into the courtyard.

That was the moment I should have disappeared, but it turned into the one where a majestic, man-sized dark brown wolf jumped through the stone window straight at me.

I shot further back, around the ivy-covered stone fountain, to put distance between me and her.

Damn. She was bigger than I expected.

Like possessed, I stared at the huge wolf. Thick brown, almost black fur, paws as big as the surface of a face and large yellow glowing eyes... not to mention the teeth she bared at me as she paced around the fountain, growling.

I would be lying if I said her appearance left me indifferent. I wasn’t scared, butdamn,respectdidn’t even describe it in the slightest.

She growled, and we walked another round around the fountain.

I didn’t know if it was smart to run now. I would be faster than her. But here on campus, she had a crucial advantage. She knew which corridors were dead ends, I didn’t.

Unexpectedly, she jumped over the fountain and I dodged back across the courtyard towards the wall.

Now there was no longer any obstacle separating us.

“Easy,little wolf,” I said, raising my hands.

Fuck. I was screwed.

What had I been thinking? That I would throw a stick, and she would bring it back to me?

Emely growled and came toward me. Closer and closer, ready to make me pay.

I took a deep breath.

The last thing I would do was show her my respect or weakness by running away.

I should have run. Because with one leap, I was jerked to the ground and a huge, snarling wolf towered over me.

Her sharp teeth were as long as my thumbs. The moonlight made them gleam dangerously.

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My heart hammered wildly against my ribcage, and I was at the mercy of the menacing gaze of a female Senseque.

One bite was enough, and she would be rid of me. Except that would also be her downfall, the downfall of her whole family.

I managed to distract myself somehow. Or rather,her eyesdid.Fascinated, I looked at the detailed fibers of her irises. Golden and just as intense as Ruisangor's irises.

My heartbeat stabilized a little, even though I became more aware again that I was just skidding along the edge of my life.

I kept silent and let her gaze wash over me, trying not to show any weakness, but also not to move a bit. I did something much more fatal. I looked directly into her eyes and held her gaze.

She seemed to calm down, but then her pupils widened. She looked startled. And suddenly she backed away, growled again, but this time irritated, as if she didn’t know what had just happened, and then she ran across the courtyard, through the next corridor and disappeared, leaving me behind in the stormy night.

I lay paralyzed on the cold stone floor for another ten minutes, looking up at the clear starry sky above the courtyard.

Emely had spared me. I had expected nothing less. She kept to the contract, no matter how much I challenged her. She was different from her brother. And she had full control over her wolf form. But there was something else.Her confused look.

I stood up and left the courtyard.

Where Emely had transformed, the torn clothes had disappeared. She must have taken them with her.

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