Page 146 of A University of Betrayal

I stepped forward, and she automatically backed away, but I was quicker. Within a second, Emely bumped into the stone wall and immediately the smell of her blood thundered toward me, fogging my senses.

“Careful,puppy,” I murmured urgently and pressed my forearm against her chest. I immediately felt the warmth of her Senseque body through my coat sleeve. “I could ask you the same thing.” I looked at her penetratingly. “What are you doing here, allalone,on campus at night?”

We engaged in a squinting battle. And it was my mistake to breathe in to control my overflowing emotions, because immediately there was another pleasant sweet smell in my nose.

It wasn’t just her blood, which – it should be noted – smelled pretty damn weak on Senseque, but a note of jasmine and cinnamon.

“It’s none of yourgoddamnbusiness!” she snapped at me, reminding me not to breathe.

Something in her expression was different than usual. She looked as if something was occupying her stubborn little head. But she was right. Itwasnone of my business. Let that girl rack her brains.

“Then we’re even,” I murmured, ready to let her go, but she hadn’t finished yet.

“We’ll never beeven,”she squeezed out with a deadly look. “Now let me go if you don’t want me to scratch that cocky smile off your face.”

Damn. She really wanted to find out.

I reached into my coat pocket, and my smile returned.

“Try it...” I whispered, opening the vial of yellow tincture with my free hand.

“What?”

Emely’s eyes widened, and with satisfaction, I dripped the contents of the vial onto her wrist before taking three steps backward.

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The moonlight shone through the open windows facing the adjacent courtyard and gave a good view of her arms, where thick black veins stood out in a delightful pattern.

“No...” Emely panicked and looked at her arms, then at the neckline of her blouse, from which a few black veins were also climbing up to her neck. “No...” She looked at me, her face full of shock. “What have you done?”

“Let me put it this way.” I ran my fingers through my hair, smiling triumphantly. “Nowwe’re even.”

Emely’s eyes widened even more in horror. I had managed to throw her completely off track.

“Why did you do that?”

The very next moment, she arched her back, and I resisted the urge to take another step back.

“Control,Copeland,” I said sharply. “Remember?” My smirk made the anger return to her face. “Now I want to see how much of it you have.”

“You’ll pay for that!” she snapped at me, arching her cracking back one more time before sinking to her knees. “With your death!”

“Empty threats.” I laughed. Inside, my tension grew, because I hadn’t intended to do this to hertoday. “Come on,” I continued. “I know you can do better than that, little wolf.”

She sank forward, and a deep crack sounded in her neck.

“Get out of here...” she gasped,“Damn it,Miles, get the fuck out of here!”

This time it didn’t sound like a threat, but a warning.

“I’ve always wanted to watch you transform up close.”

Adrian would stake me if he found out I’d raided Bastien’s private lab just to make a Copeland wolf’s day.

“Miles!”

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