Page 49 of Moon Kissed

Turning my head, I landed on the catcalling alpha boy who unwisely set my fates off in the middle of class. He had some girl cornered in the middle of the room with his hand up her dress.

“Stop.” She was giggling, but the discomfort shown clear as she tried to wiggle away. “Not in front of everyone.”

“Ugh, fuck this.” Mason walked off, leaving her confused and hurt in his wake. He was plastered on another girl in seconds.

“What a dick.”

“Yes,” Ava replied. I couldn’t place the expression on her face as she watched him go. “He is.”

I studied Nia until she was the one looking uncomfortable. “Guys like him get what’s coming to them. One way or another. He’ll learn what it means to be afraid.”

She blinked at me. Her lips parted but nothing came out.

Grin returning, my hand shot in the air. “I got winner for Shots Regatta.”

I took one step toward the shots game and a yelp sounded behind me.

Badr was up and in my way so fast, he dumped Ava on her ass doing it. “Get out.”

“That’s a very good idea.” Nia tugged on my arm. “Daciana, please, let’s go.”

I cocked a brow at his hard, bare chest. This close, the flying eagle stretched across his pecs glared right in my eyes. “Uh, no. Why would I leave my own party?”

“You didn’t get enough on the field, Volana?” He snapped the air above my nose, growling. It was such a feral and alpha wolf thing, my ravenous slut of a wolf sat up on her haunches and purred for more. “Ready to lose round two already?”

My jaw hardened, the humor leaking out of me. “What are you saying, Badr? You’re going to beat up an unarmed, unresisting woman because she’s not doing what you want? Gotta keep the little woman in line after all.”

“What?” He reeled back, eyes bugging. “No! No one said anything about beating anyone up!”

“Good,” I said, freeing my arm from Nia’s tugging grip. “Then let’s drop the threats and make this simple. You want me to leave. I want to stay. So, let’s settle this the easy way.” I pointed to the shots game. “If you win, I leave the party. I win, I stay.”

Badr hummed, bobbing his head. “Reasonable terms. There’s only one problem.”

“What’s that?”

“I don’t make deals with my brother’s killer.” He flicked over my shoulder. “Edric.”

I didn’t have a chance to reply. A gust of wind lifted me off my feet, and threw me out the open door. It slammed shut and locked before I crashed into the wall and collapsed like Jenga.

I scrambled to my feet cursing and debating whether or not I would kick that damn door off the hinges and beat Edric withit. Crashing the party tonight had the double purpose of showing the school, Ava, and my fates that they were not getting to me. They were also the setup for another false alibi.

Letting it go, I took off before Nia came after me. “Enjoy it, number two, you get one more night of fun.”

It was just as well that my douchewad jerk of a fate threw me out and reminded me that I have other things on my agenda. I didn’t have the weapon I needed for my ultimate endgame, so it was time to create one. The poison. The unbeatable poison.

Wolfsbane.

The most effective weapon against us. When the wolfsbane flower is distilled, it creates an odorless, colorless, tasteless poison that we can’t see or smell coming.

For that reason, wolfsbane wasn’t grown in any werewolf community anywhere, ever, in the whole world. They damn sure didn’t have a patch growing out in the Corvin Academy gardens.

There was a zero percent chance that I would find wolfsbane anywhere on the grounds. The obvious answer was for me to have picked the wolfsbane while I was hiding out in the mundane world and smuggle it in, but I knew I’d be under intense scrutiny. Dagem would have me, my stuff, and my room searched whenever the mood struck her, and how would I explain keeping a highly lethal plant on the nightstand?

My only option was to get my hands on wolfsbane while being trapped within the gates of the academy.

Lucia and I brainstormed the best way to do that, and if I couldn’t scratch a name off my first list that night, then I’d scratch a step off my second.

I phased as far and fast from Nia as I could, slipping through walls with ease. Fresh, glorious night air washed over me, and I shifted in a blink, giving my wolf control with complete abandon.

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