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ALINA

When individuals assume you’re made from glass, the final place you have to be might be a college for assassins. And to be honest, I can’t actually argue with that logic. But it surely was the one method that I might carve out some freedom for myself.

“Alina! We’re leaving.”

I heave a sigh.

Carve out some freedom, sure. However with huge emphasis on some.

The door to my bed room vibrates in its hinges as a fist kilos impatiently on it.

“Alina. Now.”

“Sure,” I reply, not bothering to cover the irritation in my tone. “I heard you the primary time, Mikhail.”

Brushing my arms down my shirt, I stroll over to the door and open it.

My eldest brother, Mikhail, is standing proper on the opposite aspect, his blue eyes locked on me and his pale brows raised expectantly. I’m half a second away from snapping at him that I’m really prepared with two minutes to spare, however I handle to suppress the impulse.

Pissing off Mikhail is a foul concept. Particularly right this moment. Since he’s the eldest, he’s in command of the remainder of us Petrovs right here at Blackwater College. And if he decides to start out limiting my already restricted freedom right here, all of this can have been for nothing. To not point out that we’re about to move again to our household residence within the metropolis for a household assembly the place we’ll talk about whether or not I ought to keep at Blackwater or not, which is a gathering I’m dreading terribly.

So as an alternative of taking that out on Mikhail, I drop my gaze. “I’m sorry.”

His voice softens as he replies, “It’s alright. You do even have one minute to spare.”

I look as much as discover him smiling at me. It’s a smile that few different individuals ever get to see. Mikhail is among the greatest hitmen within the senior yr, and most of the people give him, and our whole household, a large berth. Particularly now that there are 5 of us on campus. Nobody desires to danger angering the Petrov household. Nicely, apart from the Hunters, after all.

“Mikhail! Alina!” Anton calls from downstairs. “Are you coming or what? The twins are threatening to drive should you don’t get down right here quickly.”

“Over my lifeless physique,” Mikhail replies. “Which is precisely the state we’ll all find yourself in if both of them is driving.”

My twin cousins, Maksim and Konstantin, set free a terrifyingly synchronized evil chuckle from someplace under.

Mikhail shakes his head in exasperation earlier than jerking his chin at me. We begin down in direction of the entrance door.

We’re renting one of many freestanding homes within the residential space of Blackwater College. All college students stay right here, so your complete space is full of homes in addition to bigger buildings that comprise residences or dorm rooms. Whereas I’d have most well-liked to hire a spot of my very own as an alternative of sharing it with my two brothers and my two cousins, I’ve to confess that our home is gorgeous.

The ground and partitions are made from pale wooden, there are white marble counter tops within the kitchen, and arched home windows to let within the mild. Round the home is a small garden with some bushes and bushes that present privateness from our neighboring homes in addition to from the primary street.

I look out the window and in direction of the automotive out by the curb as Mikhail and I attain the hallway the place Anton and the twins are ready. Dread rolls by way of my abdomen once more.

“Prepared?” Anton asks.

“Sure,” I reply, conserving my voice informal.

Anton’s grey eyes search my face for a protracted second. He can most likely inform that I’m nervous. However fortunately, he doesn’t touch upon it.

“Alright, then let’s go,” Konstantin says.

After slapping his brother on the arm, he throws open the door and strolls out. Maksim follows him. Mikhail heaves a sigh and shakes his head as soon as extra earlier than he and Anton stroll out as nicely. I pause for a second, getting that terrible dread again below management, earlier than doing the identical.

The entrance door lets out a click on as I lock it. My brothers and cousins are already midway down the stone path that cuts by way of the garden and results in the road, however I don’t hurry to meet up with them. As a substitute, I examine them as I stroll.

To the east, the solar is simply barely rising, tinting the sky and the remainder of the world with a little bit of crimson. The faint mild performs over the 4 males strolling forward of me. I seem like them, and on the identical time, I look nothing like them.

Konstantin and Maksim usually are not equivalent twins, in order that they’re simple to inform aside. However each of them have brown hair and brown eyes. Anton has that very same hair coloration too, courtesy of our father and theirs, who’re brothers. However Anton obtained our mom’s grey eyes. I did as nicely. I obtained her blonde hair too. As did Mikhail.

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