I wish I could turn away on my heels and escape, but I couldn’t. Not without looking even more suspicious than I already did. Because there had to be a reason for Trion Valmont to look for me.
“I was worried about you after what happened at the Assembly Hall,” he said, not taking his eyes off me, and I forced an apologetic smile onto my lips.
“I am… sorry,” I fiddled with the hem of my uniform. “I was under a lot of stress lately and when you told us about the breach and a possible demon on the loose… it just got to me.”
He was watching me intensively and I could see the darkness spreading from him, coating everything around him. But I tried not to look there. Instead, I looked into his face.
And it was worse. So much worse! His eyes were so dark that there were no irises and the vein
