SELENE
I saw Marcus leaving the academy around midnight. I was coming back from the greenhouse where Kael and I had spent the last three hours just sitting together in the dark.
My mind was still halfway there, thinking about what he had told me, about True Alphas and suppressants and the fact that people were actively hunting him. I was not paying attention to anything else.
That was why I almost missed Marcus slipping out through the side gate near the old stone wall. It was the way he moved that made me stop. Too careful, like someone who did not want to be seen.
He had his jacket zipped up and his hands in his pockets and he was heading toward the forest that bordered the academy grounds.
I should have gone back to my dorm. Instead I followed him.
The path was dark and the tree
