Filed To Story: Falling for the Alpha As a Student Novel
she muttered turning to walk toward her dark purple glowing orb that sat on a pedestal she set up for it.
She ran her fingers over the orb to make it glow even brighter as Zagreus and the Alpha watched in pure fascination. This never got old for her either.
“Tell me, girl. What is going on at the school right now,”
she spoke in a nearly unrecognizable tone.
There was a beat of silence, and then the small and frightened voice of Rachel, Jazzy’s recent vessel who has been taken over by Zagreus’s darkness, sounded from the purple orb.
“T…they are investigating the murders…”
she whispered, and Jazzy could tell the girl had been crying.
“What is that sign of weakness I’m getting from you?”
Jazzy asked, obvious annoyance in her tone.
“I’m frightened….”
She whispered. “They were going to find out it was me…. why did you make me do that?”
Jazzy rolled her eyes.
“Because if you didn’t, the darkness inside of you would have needed to feed off you,”
Jazzy told her for the hundredth time. “It needs the sacrifice to survive. If it killed you, then it would have needed to find a new vessel. You either eat or be eaten.”
“What am I going to do?”
Rachel whimpered. “I’m so scared….”
“You are going to trust me, for starters,”
Jazzy said, glancing over her shoulder at the very curious Alpha before turning back to the orb. And I’m going to need you to do me another favor.”
…..
Tears flooded Rachel’s face as she stood outside the vampire den. It was technically the dormitory that the vampires lived in because it was a vast space with limited windows to keep the sunlight out. But the students around the school, including the vampires, call it the vampire den.
It was a small attachment to the dormitory building, so Rachel didn’t need to go outside to access the entrance. But it did take her quite a bit to be able to sneak over to his section of the dormitory undetected.
Her entire body shook as she held the dagger that darkness had formatted and provided for her. It was a silver dagger with dark swirls like waves going across the blade. It wasn’t a dagger she had ever seen before, and she wondered where the darkness had got it from.
She raised her hand to knock on the door knowing that the dorm advisor would be the one to answer. The dorm advisors for both the boys’ and girls’ sections were both vampires.
Rachel stood outside the boy’s dormitory, and she knew the boy’s advisor’s name was Rodrick, or as most refer to him, Rod.
Rod was the only hybrid at this school who was both a vampire and a werewolf. His mother was a werewolf, and his father was a vampire, hence forming a hybrid son. Rod mainly followed the vampire schedule and became one of the youngest dorm advisors and professors. He was only 18 when he first became the dorm advisor, which was odd because he was the age of most of the students.
Though students were able to attend this school as early as 17, Rod was always gifted growing up and attended this school at the age of 15.
Rachel only met him a couple of times when she was 17, last year, because he mainly kept to himself with the other vampires, despite also having werewolf genes. He became the bloodlust professor once he reached age 19.
She hasn’t seen him at all this new semester though.
Skylar speaks of him often during their student committee meetings; she finds him incredibly attractive as does most of his female students.
Rod was kind to her when they met last year and knowing what Rachel was about to do was destroying the bear inside of her. But she had no choice; she felt the claws of darkness digging into her brain and forcing her to do its bidding.
She had to fulfill her orders.
She rose her first and knocked on the door; her entire body trembled as she waited for the door to open. The wait felt like it lasted forever, but then she heard movement.
The smell of pine and vanilla filled her nose making her entire body freeze. The scent was glorious and made her entire heart skip a beat. This was a feeling that didn’t come familiar to her, but she was eager to find out what it meant.
She felt the excitement bubbling inside of her, making her bear come alive and alert. Bears don’t often speak to their humans like wolves do, but they could during high-intensity moments or whenever bears were shifted into their full form.
The knob of the door began to turn, and Rachel stared with fascination as the door was pulled open and Rod stood in front of her. His eyes were dark with a golden tint but he stared back at him with shock and curiosity.
His voice came out low and shook Rachel to the core.
“Mate…”
he whispered, staring directly at her.
“Mate…”
Rachel’s bear whispered, leaving Rachel’s lips as she stared up at him.
But then the darkness gripped her brain even harder, fading Rachel out of the moment as she captured his eyes and placed him in a dark trance.
She spoke in a firm voice, watching as his eyes darkened along with hers.
“It was you that murdered those people and framed Scott,”
she said to him, placing the thoughts in his mind. He stood frozen, taking in the information. “And now you are trying to murder me…”
She continued, handing him the dagger. “Stab me.”
Lila’s POV
When I heard the sirens, I knew something was seriously wrong. The last time I heard sirens there was a murder. My heart fell into my stomach as I watched Becca rush to the window of our dorm and peer down into the parking lot.
“There’s an ambulance and a couple of cop cars,”
she said, peeing back at me with a worried frown. “I wonder if they found somebody else.”
I felt like I was about to get sick.
She looked back down at the parking lot, and I heard her gasp lightly.
“I see your dad and Professor Enzo,”
she said, pointing to the lot.
I jumped to my feet, rushing toward her.
“Are they okay?”
I asked, feeling a rise of panic.
“Yes,”
she answered. “They are talking to Alpha Jonathan and Headmaster Prescott.”
I peered down into the lot and sure enough I saw my father and mate speaking with Headmaster Prescott and Alpha Jonathan. I could hardly see their faces, but I knew from their body language alone that something was seriously wrong.
EMTs were rushing toward one of the outside entrances of the vampire den. My heart fell deep into my stomach.
What could have happened in the vampire den?
The cops were following them into the building as well without even a single look in the headmaster’s direction. Alpha Jonathan turned away from them and walked into the vampire den as well.
Before I could say anything more to Becca about what we were watching, we both nearly jumped out of our skin as we heard someone knocking on the door.
I turned to face the door, feeling my heart pounding against my ribcage. We both shared identical frightened looks before we gained enough courage to move from the window and go to the door.
When I opened it, I was surprised to see a very tear-filled Eileen Carter standing before us.
“Miss Carter….”
Becca was the first to speak. “Is everything okay?”
She looked at the two of us for a long while without speaking; it felt like an eternity before she actually decided to speak.
“It’s Rachel…”
she said hoarsely.
“Rachel?”
I asked, furrowing my brows together. “She’s been in her room all night.”
Miss Carter shook her head as a sob escaped her lips.
“She must have snuck out the window or something,”
she said through her tears. “She was found in the vampire’s dormitory stabbed.”