Chapter 201

Elodie's POV

The hallway had gone deathly quiet, the kind of silence that presses in from all sides when everyone knows something big is about to happen.

Phones were out, angled toward us like weapons. Students formed a loose circle, eyes wide, waiting for blood.

Kiernan’s presence cut through the crowd like a blade, the air shifting as people instinctively stepped back.

His eyes were fixed on