The Deal

Dahlia ~

“So what are you telling me?” Sienna asked me with one brow arched up in suspicion. “I’m not loosing my virginity to these mindless savages!”

“Oh come on! Do you want to get fucking caught? Our virginities are nothing compared to what is at stake!” I whisper yelled.

We were in the bathroom of our dorm room and we had to practically skip a class to have this conversation in private.

“We won't get caught, Kaden is just trying to get into our pants cant you see that?” She countered. “Our scents aren't half as strong as that.”

“Not yet, but soon enough it will get stronger and we won't be able to control it and by then it would be too late already.”

After a pause, Sienna slid against the wall until she was fully seated on the floor with her face in her palms.

“I hate my life!” she cried.

“Me too, but we have to—”

I was interrupted by the sound of voices in the dorm room.

Were they back already? Classes weren't over until an hour at least so what the fuck were they doing here?

“We need to go,” I said and Sienna rose to her feet after me.

I turned the door knob and I noticed a moment too late that someone was standing in front of me and before I knew it, I stubbed my toe and collided face first into a hard wall of flesh.

We both crashed to the floor and I ended up straddling him with my chest directly on his in a very— wrong — position.

I pushed myself up sharply and flinched when I saw Kaden’s face.

“Oh I'm so sorry,” my feminine voice slipped through and I instantly pressed a palm to my mouth as though that would rewind time, the boys were all in the room and they heard my squeaky voice.

I cleared my throat sharply in a sorry attempt to cover it up—

“Get the fuck off me,” that was Kaden’s voice as he practically shoved me off him like I was an unwanted bag of trash.

He rose to his feet sharply with an annoyed scowl on his pretty face as he looked down at my small frame.

I don't know why but my eyes darted down towards his pants and I saw an unmistakeable bulge there.

But it was only a glimpse before he turned away sharply and entered the bathroom, slamming the door shut behind him.

“That was awkward,” I deepened my voice to say.

Silas and Aurelian had their hands in their pockets with clenched jaws as they looked at the both of us and Orion pushed his glasses up with intense scrutiny — I had never felt more like prey in my entire life.

Why were they looking at us that way?

Just as Aurelian was about to say something, Sienna interrupted him.

“We have to go get lunch now,” she said as she grabbed a perfume from the stand and hurriedly sprayed me, and then she practically dragged me out of the room.

The hallways were empty and when we had walked a good distance away from our dorm room Sienna turned to face me so sharply that I nearly bumped into her.

“I understand what you were talking about now,” she started and I raised my brow at her in confusion.

“They could smell your arousal, they know what we are now.” she ran her hands through her hair, as she paced around.

“Fuck!” I swore.

I had thought we would only need to fuck Kaden but now they all knew—

“Caleb and Theo!” Mr. Vincent’s voice boomed from the other end of the hallway startling us visibly.

“You both look a mess,” he approached us. “Why weren't you in classes? I have been looking everywhere for you.”

I could not form a proper excuse on the spot and Sienna was going through the same predicament.

“Never mind, the Proprietress wants to have a little chat with you both,” he said and motioned for us to follow him.

Sienna and I shared a confused glance.

We reached her office soon enough and she was seated behind her desk as usual.

This time her full curly red hair was left to cascade down her shoulders in beautiful waves that caught the light of the sun that filtered in through the massive window behind her.

I couldn't help but think about how much she looked like Orion as we sat in front of her.

She motioned for Vincent to leave and with a small bow, he left the room.

“Your majesties, I welcome you to this prestigious school, I have been expecting you.”

Sienna and I exchanged yet another utterly confused glance.

“Y- you know?” the words left my mouth in a jumble.

Instead of responding, she unbuttoned the first two buttons of her shirt and dragged it across her shoulder to reveal a sigil just underneath her collar bone.

The Scarvyn Sigil, she was one of us.

“I want you girls to know that you are not alone here, our people rally strongly behind you and we are rooting for you to help us avenge the deaths of our people and the destruction of our kingdom.” she explained. “I am Naima and I was sent to this very school for the purpose of helping you girls find the Kingmaker gemstone.” she explained.

“Do you know where it is?” Sienna spoke first.

“Not yet, I have only been here for about a month but surely, soon enough we will find it.”

“How will you guys feed?” she asked the question that had been pressing on my mind for so long.

Scarvyns needed to feed on fresh blood daily to prevent us from going rogue and becoming savages.

Back at home, our foster parents knew what we were so they always provided us with blood from blood banks and it sufficed.

But here, there was no donor in sight. Only a bunch of alpha’s with delicious looking necks.

Fuck… it had been days since I last fed and I was starving already.

“We haven't really thought of that yet, perhaps we can just control it until we find the gemstone.” Sienna said and Naima chuckled knowingly.

“You both wouldn't last a week without going rogue,” she said. “My best advice to you both is to do like our people have done for years— find some trustworthy donors and feed, I have Vincent.” she said.

“And it would not be wise to let him know your identity so you unfortunately cannot feed on him too.”

Find a donor? The thought of doing that stressed me out beyond belief.

“I am leaving for a staff meeting now,” she buttoned her shirt back and rose from the desk grabbing her laptop. “You girls be good and stay focused on the goal.”

With that she left us in her office.

“What the fuck?” Sienna asked. “How in the world wll we approach some alphas and say ‘hey, allow me to drink your blood please’ without us getting reported?”

“I have an idea.” I said to Sienna.

By nightfall, everyone had gotten back from prep and getting ready to sleep.

“So when we're you going to tell us you were girls?” Kaden asked and I widened my eyes in shock at his outright betrayal.

Before I could say anything, Orion tossed something at Sienna and I turned to see it was a sanitary pad.

Oh well.

“I was going to tell you guys tonight, because we would like to make a deal with you,” I did not bother deepening my voice.

Kaden tilted his head to the side as a knowing smirk graced his lips.

I could see the gears turning his head, he was probably asking himself if I was insane enough to do what I was about to.

He had no fucking idea.

“Offer us your blood and the four of you can fuck us both to reduce our pheromones.”