Chapter 10

• Aria.
• The silence in the empty classroom was suffocating; it felt like the walls were closing against me, and with Kai being so close, I felt like I could faint at any moment. My heartbeat pounded against my chest, and my breath came out shaky.
• Kai Blackthorn stood in front of me, his piercing blue eyes locked into mine, dark and unreadable. There was something about his presence that felt like a dark storm cloud, swallowing the air and bright lights, waving a dark, forbidding presence.