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he tossed the girl’s body into the grave he’d just dug.

I watched as he covered the body with dirt. It didn’t take him very long to cover her.

Within a few minutes, the body was buried and then he smiled.

He glanced around the area, that annoying smile still plastered on his lips. I might have only been imagining it, but I couldn’t help but think that somehow, he knew we were still there.

After a few long moments, he walked away from us.

We listened until his footsteps could no longer be heard. Then, finally, we all allowed our bodies to be visible again.

“I guess he’s been feeding on young people again,” Aiden said. The horror I felt about the situation was mirrored in his honey brown eyes.

“So it seems.” Theo looked sort of nauseated. “My only question is who.”

“Should we find out?” I whispered.

The absolute last thing I wanted to do was dig up the dead body the Headmaster had just dumped here. A part of me also didn’t want to know who it was; ignorance was bliss.

But I had also seen the dark hair and gotten that feeling. I just wanted to make sure that I was wrong, that there was no way this body could have belonged to Maddie.

I knew I could have just called or texted her, but it had to have been close to four a.m. now, and I didn’t want to wake her up. And what was I supposed to say, anyway? “Hey, just calling to make sure you’re not dead”?

“Are you suggesting that we dig up the body he just buried?” Aiden asked me.

I nodded.

“Are you sure you want to do this?” Theo asked, glancing over at me with a look of concern. “It might not be pretty.”

“I’m sure,” I replied. I wasn’t looking forward to whatever we were about to see, but I just had this feeling that we had to look. The feeling was gnawing away at my gut.

“We should probably go invisible again, just in case he comes back here. I wouldn’t want him to see that we’re tampering with his dead bodies,” Aiden said.

“Good idea,” Kane replied. “Alright, let’s do this.”

We all went invisible again.

I watched as Theo, Aiden, and Kane dug up the dirt. I could see the dirt moving, even though I couldn’t see them—or the shovels.

With every shovel full of dirt that they dug up, the knot in my stomach twisted a little further.

Finally, they had dug up enough dirt for us to get a good luck at the body.

I saw one of their flashlights turn on, and they shone it into the grave.

As I moved in closer to get a good look at her, I gasped.

It wasn’t Maddie who the Headmaster had killed.

It was Jessica Davis.

Chapter 26

I just kept picturing Jessica Davis’s dead body for weeks after we had found her in the Dead Woods.

Her black hair fell around her shoulders, and her olive skin had been drained of all its color.

I still couldn’t believe that he had killed her.

Of course, it made sense. Theo’s theory had been put into action.

Headmaster Black had wanted to drink from the most powerful werewolves the school had to offer. That much was clear. He had chosen Milos Santorini’s daughter for a reason. She was a direct Descendant to an Ancient, of course he had wanted to drink from her.

It just made me think that Theo was right, that the Headmaster would do anything to get his hands on me if he could.

Any time I passed the Headmaster in the halls at school, he gave me this creepy smile. I wasn’t sure if his smile had always been this creepy and I was only noticing it now, or if this smile was new.

A part of me wondered if he kept smiling at me that way because he suspected that me and the rest of the Darken pack had been in the Dead Woods with him that night. After all, who else would have wanted Javier dead more than me and my mates? I had a legitimate reason to kill my blood mate. As far as I knew, Javier hadn’t had any other enemies.

So, if Headmaster Black thought that we were the ones who had been out there with him, then that probably meant he knew he had killed Jessica, too.

More than anything, I wished we didn’t know. I almost wished that we hadn’t dug up her body, that we had just left well enough alone.

The whole thing left me feeling haunted, and