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CHAPTER 28
~Spring's POV~
Morning arrived too fast. Like always, Eryx volunteered to drop me off—probably because the others were still preoccupied with Rose's surprise hospital visit, and couldn't fight him for it.
We didn't talk much during the drive. He mostly filled the silence by setting a time to go over some "cyberworld basics" with me after school.
He called it "training."
I called it... a welcome distraction.
Still, I kept my eyes peeled as we neared campus, memorising all the likely entrances my Alpha "soul-mates" might use. I didn't need a fifth round of chaos this morning.
Worse, I couldn't afford for Eryx to find out about me and my mates.
For once, I was thankful to be repeating sophomore year. They weren't in any of my classes. That meant I could disappear into the noise, mostly.
Except, of course, for Lucien. Because fate clearly hated me.
I bid Eryx goodbye before alighting from the car. Just as I arrived inside the school building…
