Chapter 0489 Third Person POV h Rachel walked the narrow hallway of the academic center as the sun began to set on Sunday night. Blood had stained her lip, and she used her thumb to wipe the remainder of it off before leaving the building and returning to her dorm.
She felt the darkness within her wiggle with delight as the blood it just consumed filled and strengthened it. Rachel didn’t understand her sudden craving for blood; as a bear, they didn’t drink or desire blood. But the sudden urge was too much for her to ignore and she would stop at nothing to satisfy the craving.
The warm pool of blood from her victim made the darkness inside her excited.
Once she started, she couldn’t find the willpower to stop. Not until the heart of the victim had stopped beating and she stopped struggling against Rachel's hold.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt+ She had died and Rachel buried her deep in the basement of the academic center; somewhere nobody goes. \ As she rounded the corner and pushed open the doors, a girl ran into her coming from the opposite direction, making Rachel’s head spin and the darkness swirl around her in fury. i “OH! Sorry, Rachel. I didn’t see you there,” the girl, Rachel recognized as Mckenzi in her bear-shifting class, said.
i Rachel glared at the girl and as soon as the girl looked into Rachel's eyes, her smile immediately dropped. Rachel’s eyes were dark and becoming inhuman; Rachel couldn’t help the anger she felt despite her desperate efforts to keep her cool.
The girl gasped but tried her best to hold her composure. Though her body trembled, and she took a step back the girl said in a low tone, “I'll see you later.”
, She turned on her heel and began to run in the opposite direction. Rachel hissed ' an animalist and snake-like sound. She was about to run after the girl and have her for a late-night lunch, but she soon got a terrible migraine that made her stop in her tracks. She leaned against the building, panting for breath, trying to regain her rattled brain.
What the hell was going on? The darkness that swirled around her was in agony.
It was past curfew and Rachel needed to get back to her dorm before she got in trouble. She couldn’t be caught out here right now, but she was in too much pain to move. Her limps were listening to her anymore.
It felt like her insides were being electrocuted and the more pain she felt, the angrier the darkness that consumed her felt.
“Rachel,” she heard a low tone in her head; the voice sounded like her own, but ' she knew they weren't her thoughts. k “It hurts...” Rachel said out loud through her teeth.
“I know it does and it’s going to continue ' hurting unless you do exactly whatT | say,” the voice said in return. “Do you understand what I am saying?” “I'll do anything...” Rachel cried. “Just make it stop.” “Where are you right now?” The voice asked, urgently.
“Outside the academic center,” Rachel answered, she was sliding to the ground and pressing her legs to her chest as tears ran down her narrow features and her body jolted and trembled in agony.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmShe could visibly see the darkness leaving her body through her features and the feeling was terrible, It once had a hold
around her brain, and she felt the grip loosening; she screamed in pain as it attempted to dig its claws into the soft section of her brain and hold on for dear life.
| “Listen to me, Rachel,” the voice | ordered. “You need to get back to your dorm and look for a moonstone bracelet.
Do you understand me?” “A moonstone bracelet?” Rachel asked through gritted teeth and tear-filled eyes.
“I don’t have one.” “your roommate, Lila, does,” the voice told her. “Find it. The pain will stop once you have it.” “1 don’t know if I can...” Rachel cried.
“you must!” The voice growled furiously.
Rachel pulled herself to her feet; a wave of dizziness hit her, and she feared she'd fall over, She swallowed the large lump in her throat before making her way across
campus, trying to act as normal as possible.
] \ She finally made it back to her dorm where a bunch of others were hanging out in the dorm lounge. Some girls were watching television and others were playing video games and chuckling with one another. None of them were paying much attention to Rachel, except for one who had said hi to her in passing.