Shade Academy

Chapter 33- Unknown POV

I ducked behind the wall as she came out of the office. If the angered look on her face was any indication I would assume her meeting did not go well. I followed her through the halls and into the dining hall where she got her food and sat at her and her mate's usual table. 

"Don't know how she gets four mates and I have none." I uttered under my breath. When I turned to look back up at Anna she was looking around the room with a confused expression. Did she hear me? No it wasn't possible, I spoke way too softly to be heard by a witch, but she was still looking around as if she had. I made sure to stay well out of eye shot so she couldn't see me in her search. I wonder what had tipped her off to someone's presence. I had made sure to use the potion I was given that would conceal anything a witch may sense on a person. 

It didn't take long before all her mates showed up, all of them beaming as they approached her. Even Samuel came and sat with her, it wasn't exactly a secret anymore they were mates and due to who she was no one said anything about it for fear of her anger. I had to admit, she was something else when she was angry. Intimidating, fearless, scary. No, that wasn't right. She was totally and completely terrifying when she was mad, there is no telling what she would do if she ever lost control. But every time she gets mad, she is always well controlled.  Hell, she has more control when she is mad than she does when she is in any other mood. 

My earlier assumption seemed to have been wrong. Her meeting with the head mistress apparently didn't go wrong, because her and all her mates were all happy about something. If I had been paying attention and not stuck in my head I would have known what it was. Dumbass, I chided myself. 

"So when do you want to leave?" Samuel asked her. Ah, so they were going somewhere, but where? "As soon as possible. I don't think I can take another night here, I need to get away." She told him with a heavy sigh. "How do you feel about coming back to my home?" Ashe asked her. "My father would love to meet you. I don't think a day has gone by without him asking to meet you." He laughed. 

No, they couldn't go to the fey realm, she couldn't discover what's there. I began to panic, losing her response through the thrumming of my heart in my ears. They gave me one job, one. Watch her, keep her in this realm. Though I didn't know why they would think I could accomplish this. She is basically a witch on steroids while I was just an average everyday shifter. There is no way I could stop her if she chose to go. But if I didn't find some way to stop her, they'd kill me. 

I sighed and banged my fists against my head. Think, think, think. How can I stop a super powerful witch from doing what she wants to do? Putting the school or her mates in danger was not the best idea, she'd just kill me herself if she found out. "UGH!" I groaned. This was not going to be easy. 

By the time my mental tirade was finished they were gone. "Damn it" I yelled as I spun around and searched for the direction they went in. But my extra senses couldn't pick them up. I couldn't smell or hear them anywhere. Damn, she must have realized someone was following her and shielded against me. 

Well, they were not going to like this. I headed back to my room worriedly. What were they going to do to me? I bit the inside of my cheek as I entered my room. "Well?" She demanded. s**t. I rubbed the back of my neck as I looked at the floor. "Well.. I, kind of. Uh, lost her?" It sounded like a question, but we both knew otherwise. 

"What do you mean you lost her?" She screamed. "You incompetent little newt." She screamed. "Well, I was watching her and listening to her and her mates. The prince asked her to go back to his home to meet his father. I panicked, not knowing what I was supposed to do to stop such a powerful witch. While I was distracted trying to figure that out, they all disappeared. I couldn't find or sense them anywhere." I tried explaining. 

She put her hands on her hips and stared at me like I was missing something. I tried thinking of what it could possibly be but nothing seemed to come to mind. She sighed and rolled her eyes. "She opened a portal you nitwit. You better hope she didn't go to the fae realm." with those final words, she opened a portal and stepped through. 

I threw myself onto my bed and buried my face in my pillow. How did I get myself into this? Why did I agree to become a traitor to my kind? I am in way over my head and I don't see a way out. Well, I guess there was one way. But is that really an option? Could I really ask for help? Asking for help would only prove me guilty. At least if I got caught slinking around they'd have to prove I'd done something wrong. 

Why do decisions always have to be so hard? Couldn't just one thing in my life be simple? I knew the answer to that, no. Nothing in my life was ever simple. I've had to fight for everything I have, even my position in this school. While Anna, ya she was in foster care, but her position here was given to her because of her name. Her mates were automatically drawn to her and her power. Everything seemed to come so easy to her. And that made me mad. I sat up in bed with new determination. No, I wouldn't ask for help. If I lived through this mistake I was going to stop Anna, even if it meant I had to kill her.