book_neurosis

After losing her parents, a date with her boyfriend goes terribly wrong when she finds her boyfriend cheating on her with a werewolf. He forces a bite on her, and 18-year old Layla Gibbous is forcefully removed from everything she once held dear and is tossed into a new life at a school for the wolves of the night, Alpine Crescent Academy. 

As she learns more about her new abilities, she feels like she is being watched from the shadows. When she keeps running into a mysterious and devilishly handsome man comes on campus, Layla can't help but get close to him. If he is the one in the shadows - is he here to protect her or hurt her? 

At the academy, she is taught more about the history and the two warring factions of wolves: Nestati and Vosak. Can she stay out of the fight? Or is something more at work here, like fate?

Alpine Crescent Academy

Flashes. Flashes of images so unfamiliar and horrifying - yet I cannot ascertain what has infected me as to conjure up images such as those. Red eyes, rivulets of blood, my entrails spilling from within just before my body is shredded to pieces.

Each time an image is conjured, I am swept under a headache so large it is incapacitating. The searing pain and pressure in my head comes and goes as it pleases, and I do not know how to stop it. Sleep does not help, and true rest evades me.

It's a maniacal fit of laughter, though, that is playing repeatedly through my skull and threatening to slowly drive me insane. It is there, on the edges of each maddening vision, taunting me.

I let the cold water run over my head, shoulders and the rest of me as I sit here. Hoping that the water will scrub my brain of her hideous laughter, it is my last resort.

But I suppose it was a feeble idea to begin with.

Battle at the academy pt. 7