Chapter 9

Eve, on the verge of losing all his senses, widened his eyes in bewilderment

as he struggled to comprehend his words. Alpha, who was skilled at reading

people's expressions, sensed Eve's terror and that the poor soul wanted

nothing more than to vanish from the face of the earth to avoid this situation.

Alpha's eyes twitched for a split second as they landed on Eve's red earlobe,

and seeing how delicate it appeared, he reached out his hand for it.

Its soft

Alpha rubbed the red and smooth ear between his thumb and finger, While

Eve flinched, terrified for his life.

"Look at it," Alpha said bitterly, turning his face to the injured man while

continuing to caress Eve's right ear. Eve averted his gaze to the man's

horrifying condition. "It's neither fully alive nor fully dead; it's barely

breathing, and I can't leave it like that. And we can't keep him alive because

you don't want to help him."

Eve returned his gaze to the face a few inches away and his trembling

tenfold.

"Come on," Alpha said, pressing the cold knife against Eve's chest and

asking him to take the knife. Eve's entire life flashed before his eyes, and his

inner broken conscience warned him that things were about to change for him

from this point onward.

Things are going to be much worse than he had imagined for himself.

"N-No! Let me a g-go!" Eve sobbed, but he had no idea that his tears would

not help him in this wild school with tumultuous unleashed animals, that his

innocent crying and pitiful face would only tempt them to torture him even

more.

He cast a glance at River, whose expression he couldn't read because there

was no emotion on his face; he resembled a robot devoid of emotions; he

didn't appear bored, but he also didn't appear amused as he had minutes

before. However, before he could beg River for help, his entire body was

picked up from the floor by rough hands and got dragged toward the guy.

Eve struggled and screamed at the top of his lungs as Alpha threw him in the

direction of the other person. Then, he bent down and forced the knife into

Eve's hands. Eve's stomach turned in disgust at the scene of the bloody mess

on the floor and the skin-crawling, repulsive sight, but he managed to hold

back vomit.

River remained expressionless as he observed the drama from across the

room.

"No! Please let me go! P-Please!! I didn't do anything!" Eve cried and tried

to free himself from Alpha.

Alpha held him in place from behind, using his broad and strong body to trap

Eve's comparable small body. He forced Eve to hold onto the strange and

dangerous weapon in his hand.

Alpha tightly clutched Eve's hand after making him hold the knife, before

hurling it at the chest of the man who made no noise and was most likely

dead. The nasty sound of a knife piercing through the bones and flesh

vigorously was disturbing enough to be able to shake the soul of any sane

human.

And then silence.

Red painted across the room.

Blood sputtered down Eve's face as it stroked his neck and his clothes.

Frustrating tears rolled down from his trembling eyes nonstop.

"Stop struggling!" Alpha yelled furiously as he mercilessly and like a crazed

monster tightened his fingers around Eve's hand. He incessantly strikes back to back at the neck, face, chest, and stomach as the glistening flesh and guts

ripped apart and fresh vicious crimson oozed beneath their feet.

"And remember never to trespass in an area where you are not permitted,"

Alpha let out to a frozen Eve, whose body had become heavy in his grip as

he had already stopped crying and yelling. He didn't have any energy left to

do anything but lie there and stare at the blood and guts pooling darkly on the

ground. "This is your first lesson in this school so always remember it."

The entire room soon filled with the revolting smell of blood and dreadful

silence, but it wasn't just the silence, it was much more sinister, it was cold

and evil, everything about the room and what happened there was just

inhuman and pure injustice, but the irony was that there wasn't supposed to be

any justice because the place itself was built on the roots of injustice.

"Shhhh!" Alpha took a long deep inhale, squeezing Eve's shoulders he closed

his bloodlust eyes making Eve whimper in agony. "You did a great job, good

boy." he opened his eyes, tilting his head as he beamed, a cold smile broke

on his lips as Eve's laboured body finally went limp in Alpha's embrace.

Alpha inhaled the smell of blood like a madman. He pulled up his hand

which was entangled with Eve's bloody hand in the air to admire his work.

He snorted but held back his wicked laugh. Looking down at an unconscious

Eve, his eyes filled with a proud infatuation at the scared innocence that was

still present on his blood-stained face.

Alpha groaned and shoved his face in Eve's neck and inhaled deeply, he was

stunned by how alluring Eve smelled with his natural scent mixed with the

intoxicating smell of blood. A very dangerous combination, Alpha thought.

He feels comforted by the heat radiating from Eve's body. A warmth his cold

body never had experienced. Tightening his grip around Eve, he finally feels

the heat his cold body has never felt before. And he finds himself getting

addicted to it.

"Hey, you forgot to cut his tongue, that's the main part," River grumbled as he

cringed looking at them sitting in the pool of blood.

"Shut up!" Alpha growled with his face still in Eve's neck. "And hand me the

new medicine."

River looked at the medicine in confusion but still reached Alpha and Eve

with it.

"What exactly are you gonna do with it?" River asked, and opened the lid

when Alpha instructed him. He took out a few dark blue pills in his hands.

"And what about the kid? Is he gonna be alright?"

"I'm not in the mood for your nagging, so shut the fuck up," Alpha scowled,

picking up a pill from River's hand who looked worriedly at Eve. He

squeezed Eve's mouth to open it with his other hand. "And about the pill,

you'll know soon."

Alpha pushed the pill down Eve's hot tongue and his throat as he gagged in

his sleep. Once he was satisfied that Eve swallowed the pill, he scooped his

unconscious and light body and roses from the floor while Eve was in his

arms.

"I want to see if this pill really works or how it's gonna affect this little

lamb," Alpha looked down at the small body, whose head resting on his

shoulder. Alpha tightened his grip around Eve as he suddenly shivered at the

warmth and looked up at River. "Clean this mess while I'm out."

River nodded and watched as Alpha exited the room with his Luna.

***

Eve jerks in his sleep, eyelashes fluttering, he fights back the sleep and the

strong headache. He blinked the sleep away, and saw a familiar ceiling upon

opening his eyes. As he sat up, his eyes darted across the empty room. He

made a motion and a pain drilled through his entire body as he tried to move

to leave his bed.

He winced in pain as he suddenly remembered the agonising disaster he went

through last night. He instinctively reached for his neck to caress the bruises

on it.

Nervousness washed over him as he recalled how he nearly lost his life at

the hands of the devil who choked him. But who was he and what he wanted

from Eve? He didn't know the answer and the question itself left a very bitter

taste in his mouth.

Eve flinched as he heard a knock on the doors and he felt a shiver run down

his spine. His body and mind reacted on their own and he clutched the

blanket to his chest as if his instincts were telling him that soon a nightmare

was going to come true or maybe already had.

"Eve?"

Eve sighed out the breath he was holding, at the sound of the familiar voice

and he felt at ease. Shoving the blankets away he excitedly left the bed to

meet the playful person that promised to take care of him. However, he halted

in his tracks as he looked down at his clothes and frowned.

Wait when did I change the clothes? He asked himself

.

He pondered about the last night, and he was sure he didn't get the time to

change, and straight passed out after the devil left the room before choking

him to death. Maybe he had woken up in the middle of the night and forgot

about it because he was quite exhausted, he assumed.

"Eve, are you not up yet?"

Eve looked up at the door and snapped back to reality. He didn't pay any

thought and ran towards the door. Upon opening the door, he came face to

face with a fresh smiling face.

And a scowling face behind him.

"Good morning, Luna," River smiled widely and Eve smiled back as he felt

relieved that it was just River.

However, as much as he felt at ease, his heart was the exact opposite. He

didn't know why his heart suddenly started to beat fast or why he wanted to cry out loud as soon as he saw River.

Probably because he felt gratitude towards him that River is the only one

who helped him in this hellish school, he thought.

"What are these marks on your neck?" River let out in confusion but then he

smiled. "So, the Alpha already marked his territory."

Eve frowned in disarray as he reached out for his neck, remembering how a

stranger attacked him out of nowhere

last night.

He couldn't understand how to tell that to River or Sage.

Sage, who was poking holes in River's face but when his eyes met with Eve's

confused ones they softened, though Sage immediately looked away.

"W-What?" Eve innocently asked.

"Nothing, just go get ready. After breakfast, I'll take you to get your batch."

River said and took a step forward, causing Eve to unknowingly take a step

backward. Eve's eyes widened and he looked up bashfully at River, who

looked at him awkwardly. Eve cursed himself for making things awkward

unintentionally. He nodded and entered the room to get ready.

River sighed as he wiped away his smile, while Sage glared at him in

disgust.

"So, that drug really works. I need to let Alpha know."