Rejected By My Alpha Professor

Poison

CHAPTER 6:

_Poison._

The word from Lira made my blood freeze.

I looked down at my wrist again. The silver crescent moon was still glowing, but around its edges, like ink spreading in water, was black. Creeping. Slowly eating the silver light.

"Lira, what is this?" I whispered in my mind, my hand shaking.

_Wolfsbane. But not normal wolfsbane,_ Lira growled, her voice weak now, like she was in pain too. _Old wolfsbane. From the time of the first White Wolf. It suppresses... it kills White Wolves..._

My knees buckled. Mia caught me.

"Elara! What's wrong? You're pale!"

"Poison," I managed to say out loud, clutching my wrist. "My mark... it's turning black."

At that exact moment, the Council leader grabbed my arm and saw it too. His eyes widened in horror.

"Wolfsbane dust! Someone released wolfsbane dust in the ventilation! All wolves evacuate! It's lethal to White!"

Headmistress Ava screamed, "Who turned on the old vents? Those were sealed a hundred years ago after the White Wolf died!"

And then I saw her.

Cassandra Vane. She wasn't sneaking out. She was standing by the old vent control panel at the back of the hall, her hand still on the lever, smiling. Her green eyes were glowing with triumph.

"I did," she said loudly, proudly, as students started coughing. Betas were holding their throats, their wolves whimpering inside. Wolfsbane didn't kill normal wolves, but it made them weak and dizzy. But for a White Wolf... it was death. "My mother told me the story. The only way to kill a White Wolf is to make her breathe wolfsbane before her first full transformation. I had to. Kade is mine! He was supposed to be mine! Not this defect Omega's!"

"You crazy b***h!" Mia screamed.

I fell to the floor, gasping. It wasn't just my wrist anymore. My chest burned. I couldn't hear Lira.

_Lira? LIRA?_

Silence. The first silence in 24 hours after waiting 19 years to hear her.

No. No, not again.

"Lira!" I screamed out loud, clutching my chest.

The main hall doors exploded. Not opened. Exploded, pieces of wood flying everywhere.

Standing there, covered in blood - not his own - was Kade.

He had heard me. Through the mate bond. Through the claiming mark.

He had left the battle at the gate and ran back.

His eyes found me on the floor, my mark blackening, Cassandra standing over me.

In one second, he was across the hall. He didn't touch Cassandra. He just looked at her and growled. One growl, full of Alpha King power, and Cassandra flew back and hit the wall, unconscious.

Then he was kneeling beside me, pulling me into his lap, his large hand covering my blackening mark.

"Elara, look at me! Breathe!"

"I can't... I can't hear her anymore," I cried, tears streaming. "Lira is gone... I'm wolfless again..."

"You are not wolfless," Kade snarled, but his voice was shaking. He was scared. For the first time, the cold Alpha Professor was scared. He pressed his black mark on his neck against my forehead.

His mark was supposed to be black, but now it was glowing silver too, fighting the black poison.

"Share," he whispered. "Our bond is two-way now. You claimed me. So I will share my life force with you."

"What are you doing?" the Council leader shouted. "You will die! Wolfsbane poisoning can transfer through a claiming bond!"

"I don't care," Kade said, looking only at me, his icy blue eyes full of love that he should have shown me yesterday. "If she dies, I die. That's what Luna means."

He bit his own wrist, hard, until blood came out - Alpha blood, strong, powerful - and pressed his bleeding wrist to my lips.

"Drink," he commanded.

I didn't want to. Blood was disgusting. But Lira's faint voice whispered, _Drink, child... Alpha blood... antidote..._

I drank. It was warm, metallic, but as soon as it touched my tongue, heat exploded inside me.

Kade's blood was like fire, but good fire. It chased the cold black poison.

My mark started to fight back. Silver light pushing against the black.

Kade groaned in pain as the black poison transferred to him through our marks. Black veins crawled up his own neck now, faster.

"Kade! Stop! You're killing yourself!" I tried to push his wrist away.

He held me tighter. "Let it. I rejected you once. I will never let you feel empty again."

The entire hall watched, frozen. A cold Alpha Professor poisoning himself to save his Omega Luna. It was something Blackstone had never seen.

Slowly, the black on my mark faded. Silver came back, brighter than before. Stronger.

And inside my chest, Lira howled again, louder than ever, furious.

_I AM AWAKE!_ she roared, not just to me, but to everyone. Her voice came out of my mouth, layered with mine, making everyone in the hall fall to their knees, even the Council.

My eyes turned completely silver-white, glowing. My hair, which was brown, started turning white at the tips, floating as if there was wind.

Kade fell back, his face pale, black veins on his neck. He had taken half the poison for me.

"Kade!" I screamed, my new power making the lights explode.

I put my hands on his neck, on his black mark, and without knowing how, I pushed.

Silver light from my hands entered his mark.

He gasped, his eyes opening, the black veins fading from his neck.

"How did you..."

"You shared your life with me," I whispered, my voice still layered with Lira's. "So I share my healing with you. White Wolf healing."

The Council leader knelt down.

"We were wrong," he whispered, bowing his head to me. An old man, a Council member, bowing to an Omega. "We thought White Wolves were to be controlled. But you... you heal. You don't destroy."

Just then, more howls came from outside. Angry. Closer.

Alpha Damon burst into the hall, a huge man with red hair, bleeding but furious.

"Where is she? Where is the White Wolf? She is mine! I smelled the claiming! I challenge Kade Black for her!"

Kade stood up, wobbling but standing in front of me, his Alpha aura exploding despite being poisoned.

"She is not yours to challenge for," Kade said, his voice deadly. "She is mine. She claimed me. And she just saved my life. If you want her, you go through me, Damon. And I will kill you even with poison in my veins."

Alpha Damon looked at me, my white glowing eyes, my floating hair, my silver mark, and then at Kade's black mark on his neck.

He took a step back, fear in his eyes for the first time.

"A dual claim... the prophecy is true... the White Wolf has chosen..."

Outside, the other Alphas who had come to fight for me started bowing, one by one, their howls turning into whimpers of submission to Lira's power.

But in the corner, Cassandra Vane was waking up, and she was looking at me with pure, murderous hatred, holding something small and silver in her hand.

A needle. Filled with black liquid.

Pure wolfsbane extract.

And she was aiming it at my back.