Chapter 1
“There he goes again,” Naomi whispered, barely moving her lips. “Looking at you like he wants to eat you alive.”
I stiffened, my fingers tightening around my pen. “You’re imagining things.”
“I’m really not,” Naomi muttered. “He doesn’t look at anyone else like that. Ever.”
“And the pale one,” Hillary added quietly. “He’s watching too.”
I didn’t need to look to know they were right.
Aiden and Lucian.
I hadn’t meant to learn their names. Knowing them felt like crossing a line. Still, It felt like my body knew them before my mind ever did, the way my skin prickled when they were near, the way my pulse sped up without warning.
I noticed Aiden first.
He stood outside the science building on my first day, leaning against the brick wall like he was waiting for someone.
He wa
