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“Levi!”

A terrifying, soul-haunting scream fills the room, shattering my ability to focus.

And even though a gun is embedded in my skin, I still turn my head around until it’s lodged right into my temple while my eyes find the siren. The girl whose voice will always call to me, even when death is imminent.

Aspen.

She runs down the stairs in her glittery green dress, skipping several steps.

A pang hits me in the stomach at the sight of those pretty ocean eyes whose colors have been swept away in the darkness. The darkness I brought into her life.

This stand-off will never end well. And if I kill Silas … it’ll destroy her along with me.

Sighing, I lower my gun and my eyes, awaiting judgment.

If this is it, then so be it.

“You give up this easily?” Silas grits.

“Just fucking get it over with.”

But someone knocks the gun out of his hand.

“Are you all out of your goddamn minds?”

Aspen’s voice makes my eyes burst open, renewed by her mere presence.

She goes around the circle enveloping me and knocks the knives straight out of the hands of all the fuckers threatening me. Theydon’t dare to fight back for fear of hurting their leader’s half sister.

“Felix is gonna kill us!” she yells at them all.

Apollo finally lets go of Heath’s shirt right as he was about to hit him with another fist.

“Heath, oh my God, your face!” Ivy says as she finally makes her way through the crowd and finds him, tugging him away from Apollo.

“I’m fine,” Heath says, still eyeing down Apollo. “He’s not.”

“I warned you not to,” Apollo says, and I’m thankful he tried to protect me.

“What the fuck is going on here?” Silas growls.

“A fucking party, that’s what. And you crashed it.” Apollo spits out some blood on the floor. Guess Heath landed a couple of punches too.

“I told you to fucking stay away from my sister,” Silas growls at me.

“I invited her,” Apollo says, wiping the remaining blood off his lips. “This wasmycall.”

Silas violently grinds his teeth together, and every time he tries to spit out words, it’s all a garbled mess as if he’s trying to find ways to still pin this on me.

Suddenly, the doors burst open again, and guards storm into the house, along with the dean himself, Felix Rivera, Silas’s dad. He has never looked more pissed than now.

Great. I just survived the son only to be killed by the father instead.

CHAPTER 31

Levi

“What happened?”Felix Rivera, the dean, barks as he marches into the building.

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