ll

excitement. I lay sprawled on my bed, music blasting through my headphones to drown out

also swamped with school work, having transferred mid-semester. To top it all

new they had finished, so I took

went to the fridge, grabbed a bottle o

he sneered. "After tonight, Ryder will officially be m

. "Thanks for not gracing the ball with your

respond, a knoc

ing a large box. "Delivery for Ms

ong with a note to meet him. Fae's eyes na

a moment meet

lpha Fredrick was waiting

nding it over to me. "It will suppress your vampir

ed, returning to the

ker of excitement about the ball. I texted Hazel, and she told me exactly

olors and sounds. I spotted Fae,

her words dripping

Your dress is... surprising. Almost better than

nt I saw her, I bolted towards her. But I didn't go too

as everywhere with phones flickering in my face. My heart raced as I wondered wh

ith Fae and her minions, holding the missing lin

this," she said, to

rned face, and I felt the

ped the necklace around my neck, and the laughter from

I paused briefly to see

ecklace's weight a reminder of who I was and what I had to hide. Ou

in time, and I saw my mother

em with a subtle

y mother c

the building with ease, leaving

a?" Ryder's vo

l is going on here?" Alpha Fredric

blame, because Bella is my

" the twin

building. The triplets below were a mix of confusion a

played the evening's humiliations, the laughter

ought that I didn't notice Fae approaching from behind. Before I could tell, she pus

school, and steal what is mine? I see the way Ryder has been

this. You can have Ryder, and I wi

ends tonight, and right now," she said, stepping

from the tip of the roof. Time seemed to have

cret. Mother's words rang in my ears, and as I thought of the fact, I would be staked to deat

ing wrong, and they turne

rushing to my aid, b

n form. I felt the air being knocked out of my lungs and a

riplets excla

for an ambulance while my vision began t

reat you again," Ryder said, holding my hands, but

er. It increased my drive for revenge, because it

lood, which healed me while I feigned being passed out, thin

and now that I had the power to make them