** Warning: This chapter contains physical and s****l abuse content that could be triggering to some readers. Please exercise caution when reading. **
Alina’s POV
I should never have encouraged him to go off with her. If I hadn’t given him that stupid, encouraging look, he wouldn’t have. He would have stayed in school with me, and I wouldn’t have to worry about…
Well, what am I worried about? That the vamps will corrupt his mind and turn him evil, like them? That Kat will finally succeed in seducing him? That he’ll join their coven and never look back?
All of the above, I think grimly as I stride out of seventh period at the end of the day and head for Noah’s car.
He gives me a dramatic, staged kiss outside the car, as he always does, before opening the passenger door for me—one of th
