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CHAPTER 295
~Valerie's POV~
I didn't think much about the message until I stepped into their classroom… and my lungs forgot how to function.
Their scents all crashed into me like a storm. All four of them.
Kai's smoky cinnamon. Axel's forest rain and spice. Dristan's sharp ice and storm. And Xade's darker blend of thunder, ash, and something sinful.
I froze.
My heat, which was already simmering beneath the surface, ignited.
The air turned heavy. The kind that stuck to your skin and made your blood run molten.
Every instinct I had screamed danger, but my wolf, Astra, whined in submission, need and hunger.
They felt it too.
I could see it in their eyes, the sudden shift. The change. The moment their Alpha instincts recognized what I was trying so hard to suppress.
Astra wasn't helping me out again. She was letting it run wild while silently begging my mates to take us as we were.