Visha sat down at the cafeteria with her cla.s.smates after her lecture. Priya came and sat down beside her. All of the girls were gossiping about the new transfer students. There was this group of four that always kept to themselves. And one of them felt like Dhira. Visha instantly knew they were talking about Shreya and the others. She really did have the same effect as Dhira on the people around her. Whenever she was around, people either looked away or kept their heads down. No one wanted to accidentally look at them. They were too scary. Some even believed more than Dhira. Visha scoffed at that. As if, that Shreya and her jokers had any stand near Dhira. She texted her about the rumor of Shreya being more scary. And that she wanted to slap them and say that Dhira could single handedly kick their a.s.s. Dhira instantly told her to ignore those rumors and concentrate on the work ahead. She has to memorize all the spells today. She will be starting practice tomorrow.Visha felt bad about how Dhira took everything else so lightly. If it wasn"t coven related, it wasn"t important. She had no personal life whatsoever. Visha decided she will help take some burden off her when she gets more powerful.
Just then the girl in front of her let out a shriek and distracted her.
"Oh my G.o.d! There is the handsome Brother duo that transferred recently."
"Yeah. I heard that everyone is calling the older one Viking and the younger one Prince. That is so cool."
"It suits them quite well. Yash, the older one, attended all the cla.s.ses and didn"t speak a word to anyone. And the Vir, the younger one, stole the limelight in the first hour."
"Yeah. Vikram was the most popular until now. Now its a Junior and a Soph.o.m.ore that beat him."
"Look at them, they"re in a different league of their own. No one can even compare to them." another cried. Priya scoffed at them for comparing his Vikram to these n.o.bodies.
Visha turned around to see the men that created so much ruckus. She saw two very handsome men enter. But one of them caught her attention. He was the older one, Visha guessed by his stubble. Something about him hooked her in. His messy hair falling on his forehead. His black colored eyes that had a shine in them. As if there was a diamond glittering in there. Those almond eye turned towards Visha and she froze. Yash caught her staring at him. Their eyes met and Visha"s heart skipped a beat. Anyone else would have instantly turned away but she didn"t. She couldn"t look away from him no matter how hard she tried. And this seemed to have interested him as he stared back at her.
Just then a voice called her name and she reluctantly turned her gaze away. She saw Vikram waving at her from the other side. She waved back at him and decided not to look at that man again. She might not be able to pull herself away this time.
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Dhira got out of the study and went to change in her room. She was barely getting any sleep nowadays. Her workload refused to lighten up no matter how much of it she does. There were always five other issues lined up while she took care of one. How did her Master handle that uptill now? There seemed no end to coven issues. It was a huge pile and she could only get to it one by one. She got changed and came downstairs to see Srisha before leaving. She knocked on her door and Srisha opened it. She bowed to greet Dhira and let her in.
"Did you send that warning?"
"I did. But I doubt it"ll make any difference. If these people cared about words they wouldn"t have broken the rules in the first place."
"If they don"t stop within a week or two, send fifteen of our people over. We don"t care about people that don"t care about our words."
Srisha smiled and nodded. This is what was expected of a coven leader. To be ruthless in punishment and generous in rewards.
"I have something else too but keep it to just yourself."
Srisha nodded and turned her full attention to her. Dhira leaned close to her ear and whispered, "There is a spy in the house. Find out."
She then stood straight again and left. There were spies in every coven but having a spy within the main house was a problem. Shreya could not have know about Rajesh when Dhira had blocked that news from leaving the mansion.
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Vir tried to talk to his Master as he stormed out of the cafeteria suddenly. He looked anxious and confused. Vir couldn"t understand what had happened. After they were at a safe distance from the crowd, he turned back to face Vir.
"Did you see that girl?"
"What girl?"
"The one that was staring at me in the cafeteria."
Vir still didn"t understand who he was talking about. There were so many girls in that place and each one was looking at him. Which one was he referring to?
Yash saw the confused look on his face and let out a sigh. He was disappointed.
"I will find her, Master. Tell me more."
Yash nodded and remembered that moment again when he had caught those beautiful honey eyes staring at him. The way that stubborn girl refused to look away. Even after being caught red-handed, there wasn"t even an ounce of guilt in her eyes. She locked her gaze in his and he froze. It"s not like he couldn"t look away, more like he didn"t want to.
" I saw this beautiful woman in there. And I saw a bandage around her hand when she waved at a guy. We both know she was injured recently. Vir, I think it"s her."
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