* * * Hayden’s POV * * *
The fire alarm sounds. “Hope. Hayden. There is a boiler on fire. Come quick to the fire safe room,” parent Kimberley shouts across the castle walkway.
Are they kidding me? Do they think I’m daft? I know full well why the alarm sounded.
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“What the f*****g hell happened?” I snapped, as I slammed the door to the debriefing room. I made sure to whisper-shout in case Hope could hear somehow.
Hope.
Our lips touched for the briefest moment, my first kiss with a female, her first kiss ever, and it was over almost before it had begun.
“Joven? What’s happening? Why did they sound that alarm?” I asked, growing more frustrated at losing the moment.
Hope chose me. Hope wants me. It was me she was reaching out to, despite everything that i
