His
eyes searched mind endlessly. The electricity returned. This time, it was a dull hum in my arms rather than the pinching heat that my hands were still recovering from. I found myself getting lost in the color of his eyes.
They’d shifted from their normal honey gold to a lighter gold. They were still barreling through me when I heard a gasp. I looked over Maximus’s shoulder to see Loren. I immediately wrenched myself from Maximus’s grasp. He stepped back and nearly ran over Loren in the process.
Her face was shiny with sweat like mine. She wore a similar set to me, but in bright pink. Her white–blonde hair was tied up in a tight bun. Clearly, we’d had the same idea about training this morning. But I was the idiot who pissed Maximus off in doing so.
“Max” Loren said brightly. “I didn’t expect to see you this early.”
Maximus grunted. “I had to bring Miss Smith something.” he said. He pulled out a notebook from seemingly nowhere. I hadn’t even noticed it the whole time he was attacking me for being loud.
He extended it to me. I took it gingerly, as if the electricity that came from when we touched might transfer through the paper. I turned it over in my hands. “Student Handbook was written across the front of it.
#25 BONUS
Chapter 11
I raised it towards him in thanks, eyes avoiding his. I looked at Loren. Her eyebrows were knitted together in confusion. She turned back to Maximus and schooled her face neutral
I’ll see you in Combat?” she said
Max nodded. He turned his back to me and started walking back to his room. But I was unsatisfied by that. I stepped out into
the hall next to Loren.
“Hey!” I shouted in his direction. He whipped around and looked at me. His eyes were wide in fear but his mouth was set in a thin line. I decided to drop the electricity thing. Clearly, if it was enough to scare Maximus, I didn’t wanna know. Instead, I opened my mouth and said something stupid.
“Aren’t you supposed to be my mentor or something?”
Maximus choked out a laugh. He crossed his arms, “Do I look like I want to be your mentor?”
“Well, no,” I said. I mimicked his stance. “But seeing as I’m the victim of this year’s hunt, I was hoping you could mentor me
through it.”
“I have no interest in Kairos’s hunt,” Maximus spat. I stay out of his business, and he stays out of mine. End of story”
“But, yesterday-“I protested.
“Yesterday, I got caught up in the fun,” Maximus cut me off with malice. “I have no intention on continuing in the stupid games. Nor will I intervene ”
“So don’t,” I snapped and turned on my heel
I marched back into my
room with Loren in tow. She gently closed the door behind us. She shook her head.
“There’s something about you that he just hates, Loren said. “I can’t figure out what it is.”
I snorted. “Thanks Loren,” I slumped to the floor and started to open the handbook. “I wonder if this has anything interesting
un it ”
