Earlier than they will query me additional, my brothers attain us as effectively. They take the chairs on both facet of me. Throughout us, the cafeteria is now buzzing with chatter and laughter and clinking utensils.

“You okay?” Anton asks, glancing at me from the nook of his eye as he picks up his knife and fork.

“After all,” I lie, very convincingly too, whereas I watch the opposite two Hunter brothers saunter as much as be a part of Kaden at his desk.

“Your meals appears to be like chilly,” Mikhail feedback as he narrows his eyes at me.

Nonetheless, earlier than he can say the rest, one of many first-years from my group approaches our desk.

Dread surges via my abdomen like ice water.

Mikhail shoots the man a tough look, which makes him elevate his fingers in an appeasing gesture. However he retains shifting till he’s standing subsequent to my brother. Along with his again to the Hunters, he leans down and whispers one thing to Mikhail.

Rage and disbelief flash throughout Mikhail’s face as he snaps his gaze to me.

For the second time immediately, I take into account whether or not I might be capable of get away if I simply reduce and run proper now.

The man from my group provides my brother a nod after which shortly walks away whereas glancing over his shoulder to be sure that the Hunters didn’t discover that he simply ratted Kaden out.

“Is it true?” Mikhail growls at me in Russian.

Anton and the twins abruptly cease consuming and look between me and him.

“Is what true?” Anton asks, additionally in Russian.

Mikhail, sticking to that very same language in order that nobody will be capable of eavesdrop, provides them a short however sadly very correct abstract of what occurred in right here earlier than all of them arrived.

Anton gapes at him for a second.

Then garments rustle as all 4 of them flip to stare at me.

“Effectively?” Mikhail prompts, his voice tight with anger.

I squirm in my seat, caught between not eager to admit it however realizing that they gained’t consider me if I deny it.

“Sure,” I admit ultimately.

Lengthy vicious curses reduce via the air. A number of individuals from the tables closest to ours flip to look. They don’t want to talk Russian to grasp the sentiment behind what was simply mentioned.

“Nevertheless it’s positive,” I attempt to guarantee my brothers and cousins. “He didn’t damage me. And he simply did it to get a response out of you.”

However none of them are listening.

As an alternative, all 4 of them are gazing Kaden like they wish to bathe in his blood.

On the Hunters’ desk, Jace says one thing to Kaden, who continues to be consuming nonchalantly as if my total household isn’t plotting his homicide proper now.

After Jace says one thing else, Kaden appears to be like up from his plate and units down his utensils. Then he twists so that he’s going through our desk totally. I can virtually really feel the hatred that’s radiating from my brothers intensify till it’s vibrating within the air.

Kaden locks eyes with me, and a sadistic smile slowly spreads throughout his lips.

My coronary heart jerks in my chest and warmth floods my cheeks as soon as extra.

I shortly drop my gaze to the desk.

Round me, my household shifts barely of their seats in order that they’re leaning nearer to me. As if that may shield me from the psychopath a couple of tables away.

Mikhail is gripping his utensils so arduous that his knuckles have turned white. I look up in time to see him elevate his knife and level it at Kaden in a really clear risk. Kaden solely continues to observe us all with that spine-chilling glint in his eyes.

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