Surrender To Us, Our Luna (One Luna, Four Alphas) novel Chapter 3

Chapter 3: 3-Dorm Room Full of Exes

Clementine:

"Clementine Stark, I hope you’ve made up your mind to cooperate," the headmaster of Ravecrest, the principal of the academy, said, his fingers tapping on the table.

He wore a black mask, his gray eyes shining from behind it. He was known as the Masked Principal. He was strong and powerful, but also arrogant and strict. That’s what I’d heard about him.

He was tall, with broad shoulders and long legs. The black suit he wore fit him like a character from a movie.

"You will be sent to a guest room for now. We’ve paired you up with some of the best candidates for the time being. Later, there will be a trial in the ruins which will decide your permanent squad for the rest of the year, before you are also sent to your dorm room."

He had such a robotic voice, or maybe it was because of the mask covering his lips. But his presence made me nod, even though I didn’t want to agree with him.

The last week had been so hard for me that I kept wondering whether I should keep resisting or switch to survival mode. After I messed up by being impatient, the warriors took the guy away, and I never saw him again.

But I heard they were beating him nonstop to teach him a lesson. I was thrown back in the cage with the others, where they made us do hard labor during the day and left us locked up in the mountains at night, listening to the growls of monsters and ogres. Sleeping was nearly impossible.

"Lurker! Take her to her guest room," he said, without moving a muscle, except for his fingers that kept tapping, creating a strange rhythm.

The Lurkers were basically the guards, the ones who had brought me here. Or should I say, the ones who had kidnapped me.

I stood up when the Lurker grabbed my arm and started pulling me away. Fighting was pointless. The ones who disobeyed were tortured in the worst ways.

"Do you have a name?" I asked the Lurker, who didn’t respond. Their mouths were covered, a black mask hiding the lower half of their faces.

They never spoke, never reacted, they only followed orders and observed us. Soon we were walking down a dark, long hallway with old-fashioned decorations on the tables and pictures hanging on the walls. He stopped in front of one of the many rooms and handed me a big, vintage key.

"Ah! Still asleep, of course," I muttered to my wolf, still under the effects of wolfsbane. They had been drugging us to keep us under control. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

The Lurker walked away while I stood outside the room, sighing and staring at the key.

"I’ll be fine. Girls usually like me," I reassured myself.

And it wasn’t a lie. Since I wasn’t your typical popular or girly girl, most girls didn’t feel threatened by me. I was like a bro to them.

With that thought in my mind and a lot of confidence, I swirled the key in the keyhole and opened the door to the room. As soon as I stepped in, I frowned. It was empty.

There were three beds lined up against one wall, and the other three were on the wall with the door to the outside. The bathroom was on the side with no beds.

I walked in and caught a whiff of cologne. That was the first shocker I’d had. It was men’s cologne. My heart skipped a beat as I looked around at the bags next to the beds.

There was one pink bag, which gave me a bit of hope, but then the rest just seemed like trouble.

"One, two, three—three sketchy bags," I muttered under my breath, counting the three bags that looked like something a guy would carry. One of the beds next to mine was empty.

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