When The Moon Hides Her Crown - Chapter 38: Chapter 38

SERAPHINA
I didn’t blink.
Didn’t breathe.
Didn’t think.
I just moved.
“Someone catch this fucker!!” Cassius ordered.
I sank my fist into Reed’s stomach, twisted, then slammed his face into the ground. Someone grabbed my arm, I threw them over my shoulder into a broken shelf. My half-shifted claws, slicing skin, spraying blood. Another tried to choke me from behind, my elbow cracked their ribs and they went down screaming.
They weren’t wolves anymore.
They were prey.
Reed’s lip split. My boot met his ribs. Over and over and over again. I didn’t feel tired. I didn’t feel anything but this sick, dizzying need to hurt.
He wanted to break me?
I’d show him what broken felt like.
“You crazy fucker!!” Cassius lunged again, but not fast enough.
My fist found his jaw with a sharp crack, and he hit the ground like a sack of meat. Before he could rise, I stomped hard on his leg. There was a dull snap.
“AAAAHHHHH…” he screamed at the top of his lungs, rolling on the ground. The wolves about to attack me froze in horror.
“You wanted to see me crawl around naked?” I hissed, grinding my heel into his shattered knee. “Let’s see how you walk now.”
Then I raised my head to stare down the other six. “Who’s next?”
None of them dared. Instead they stepped back and looked at the door to make a run for it but broke into cold sweat when they saw the one who was guarding the door was the Reaper himself if they dared to try.
“Cassius,” Reed's jaw dropped when he saw his friend rolling on the ground with a broken knee and then he set his shaking red eyes on me, “You motherfucker!!!” roaring, he tried to come at me from the side again.
This time, I welcomed it.
I ducked low and slammed my shoulder into his gut, sending him sprawling across the broken floor. He rolled, wheezing. Then tried to crawl away.
“Did I say you could leave?” I murmured lowly.
I was done playing fair.
Done holding back.
I stalked after him, picking up a piece of glass again from the ground and clenched it in my hand like a promise carved from vengeance.
Reed’s eyes nearly popped out of his head as he fearfully started crawling backward.
“No—no, wait!” he scrambled, real fear leaking into his voice now. “I—I didn’t mean—It was just—just a joke!” he was breathing hard and looked like a pathetic dog who was spouting nonsense to save his own little life.
“A joke?” I barked a laugh, kneeling beside him.
My knee pinned his chest to the floor. My hand grabbed his belt. “If what you did was a joke then let me pull a little joke on you okay?” saying that I clutched his pants harder.
He screamed. “DON’T—!”
“You wanted me to run around naked and see my little balls,” I softly repeated, a glint in my eye as I yanked his pants down just enough.
The glass shard gleamed between my fingers.
“Now I’ll take yours and compare them with mine, okay?” I yanked out his cock, clutching it in my hand with all of my strength. My wolf furiously surfacing in my eyes.
“NOOOO…” Reed cried in fear of losing his manhood.
Though I didn’t stop.
Couldn’t stop.
I did not feel any shame or disgust.
This wasn’t rage anymore, it was something I could not control. It went deeper. A fire I couldn’t douse. I raised the glass with a steady hand.
Reed cried out, a pathetic whimper. “Please—please, no! I’ll never—I swear, I won’t—!”
“Sure you wouldn’t get the chance.”
I braced my hand.
Then—
A blur.
A breeze.
A voice, silk and shadow.
“Whoa, whoa, wait a second.”
An arm looped around my waist, warm and firm, pulling me back with shocking gentleness.
I snarled and my head snapped at Ronan.
“Leave that ugly little thing,” Ronan murmured near my ear, not even flinching as the shard in my grip trembled. “It makes me furious that you are holding a manhood.”
I glared at him. It made him furious? “Let go,” I growled at him in warning.
“Oh, I will. Right after you stop trying to castrate my least favorite person that was supposed to actually be my prey.” He turned me slightly, just enough to force my eyes off Reed. “Besides, why waste a good shard of glass on that disappointment?”
I growled, my body shaking with fury, teeth clenched hard enough to crack. Listening to him I did not castrate Reed but my wolf refused to back down either. My blood was still boiling and all I wanted was to finish that bastard.
Until Ronan’s hand came up and touched my cheek, “Let go of him,” he whispered, calmly meeting my gaze but his eyes spoke volumes. He was grounding me. Reeling me back from the edge I didn’t know I’d already leapt from.
“He’s already fainted with fear,” he murmured.
I slowly glanced down at Reed and his eyes really were closed.
I blinked and slowly I dropped the shard.
It clattered against the ground.
Behind me, Cassius curled into himself like a broken animal, sobbing, pants around his knees.
Reed hadn’t moved. No one else dared.
And around us?
Silence.
Even the wind held its breath.
I got up and faced Ronan, my breathing a little heavy, “Why did you intervene? I thought you were going to play watch dog for me.”
"I was watching,” he stepped closer to me without breaking eye contact, “...just figured if anyone was gonna make you pant and growl, it should be me."
“What?” I made a face. What did he mean by that…
Before I could understand his meaning the sharp sound of horn rang. My head snapped in that direction as I froze in realization. The combat trial was over. Someone already won.
But then the door of the building was kicked open from outside and there stood Dante.
“Guys, were you in-fighting here?” he asked as if he did not know, his blue eyes filled with an evil light.
“In-fighting?!” A furious growl broke into the building as Alpha Gideon entered the building. My heart dropped into my stomach in horror. How did Alpha Gideon get here? He saw Reed, Cassius, and everyone else on the ground then fixed his red furious eyes on me. By the state of my condition he could easily tell who had done it.
“Alpha Seth,” he called my name the way it made my heart race in fear.
In -fighting at Lupine Academy was…
“You are expelled from the Academy immediately.”