"His eyes darkened in a way I'd never seen before."
I barely had time to fold the mysterious warning and tuck it away before Darius came for me like a storm breaking over the Academy's ancient walls.
The corridor emptied as if every other student had felt the tempest approaching-conversations died mid-sentence, footsteps quickened toward distant doorways, and even the boldest wolves found sudden urgent business elsewhere. The very air seemed to thicken with supernatural tension as his presence filled the stone hallway like flood water rushing through a narrow channel.
He was magnificent and terrifying in equal measure. Broad shoulders strained against the fine wool of his doublet, and barely leashed fury rolled off him in waves that made the torch flames flicker in their iron sconces. H
