Lisa struggled some more. I loosened my grip on her neck slightly so she could breathe properly. “Fine,” she said, rolling her eyes. “I’ll tell you. But can we sit down, at least?” Reluctantly, I released Lisa and blocked the door so she couldn’t leave. She rolled her eyes again and walked over to

Nina I woke up in a dimly lit room that smelled oddly of lemon cleaning solution. My throat felt raw and sore, and it took longer than usual after opening my eyes for my vision to come back into focus. Finally, when it did, I realized that it seemed as though I was in some sort of brightly lit pris

Nina I don’t know how long I was asleep. All I remembered was an immense amount of pain, Edward’s face looming over me, and then… darkness. When I woke up, I was back in that same room that I was in before. My wrists and ankles were bound to the table, and the lights were blindingly bright. My bra

Nina Minutes passed, then hours. Soon, it could’ve even been days; I had no way of knowing how long I was down there. As time ticked on, the bright fluorescent lights in my cell never faded, making me lose all sense of time. I felt myself beginning to lose my grip on reality. I couldn’t cry or scr

Enzo Several days passed after my father found me in the hockey rink, and I didn’t see or hear from Nina. I didn’t particularly want to, either. In my mind, she was probably with Ronan. I knew I wasn’t supposed to feel negatively about it and that we were just supposed to be friends all this time,

I tugged my shoes on, racking my brain as to what we could do once we cornered Edward. He was powerful, but most of his abilities relied on his mind and not his body. Between Luke and I, maybe we could tackle him and knock him out before he had a chance to shift or use any of his hypnotic abilities.

Nina “I’m ready to cooperate with my treatment.” A smile spread across Edward’s face at my words. “I’m so glad, Nina,” he said, giving my hand a squeeze. “Shall we begin?” I nodded. “Repeat after me…” … Over the course of the next several treatment sessions, Edward’s treatment began to work. S

Nina While I slept, I had a strange dream. I dreamed that I was walking through the forest just outside of campus. I recognized where I was, and I knew the path well as I walked. Up ahead, I could make out the clearing where I had last kissed Justin on the night that I discovered that he was a rog

“My name is Nina Harper…” “Your name is Nina Harper, and you are a student at Mountainview University.” I clamped my hands down harder on my ears and scrunched my eyes shut. “...I am a patient at Mountainview Psychiatric Facility.” “You are not sick, and Edward will not fix you.” I shook my head

Enzo I should’ve known that Lisa couldn’t be trusted. I thought for sure that I had her on my side thanks to my own abilities, but as it turned out, whatever training Edward had given her made her completely invulnerable to me -- and, in turn, her own hypnotic words lulled me into a false sense of