Chapter 98 The Girl Who Doesn’t Miss
Luna’s POV
Something felt wrong before I even saw her. Not the usual wrong and not the kind that came with whispers or shadows or things lurking beneath the surface. This was different. This was… deliberate.
I slowed as I walked through the school gates the next morning, with my eyes scanning the courtyard without meaning to. Students clustered in their usual groups, with their laughter spilling into the air like nothing had changed. But I knew better. Something had shifted.
And I wasn’t imagining it. “You feel it too, don’t you?” A voice came from behind me.
I didn’t turn.
“I was hoping I was just tired,” I replied.
Kai stepped into place beside me, his presence quiet but steady. Not touching. Never touching. But close enough that I was aware of every inch between us. “That’s not it,” he said.
“I figured.”
We kept walking. Side by side, like we hadn’t almost broken each other the night before, like things weren’t fragile and like we weren’t one wrong step away from something worse. The hallway felt louder than usual. Or maybe I was just more aware. Every voice, every movement, and every glance. And then, it happened. The noise dipped, but not completely. Just enough. as something had passed through the space and pulled attention with it. I frowned slightly. “Did you….”
“Yes,” Kai said under his breath.
We both turned. And that’s when I saw her. She stood at the far end of the hallway, as she owned it. She was not trying and not forcing it. Just… existing in a way that made everything else feel smaller.
It was Selene. I didn’t know how I knew her name. But I did. It hit me instantly, like a memory that wasn’t mine and like recognition that ran deeper than logic. My stomach tightened. “She’s new,” someone whispered nearby.
“No way. I would’ve remembered her.”
“Who is she?”
Selene didn’t look at anyone. Not at the whispers, not at the stares, and not at the tension building around her. She just walked slowly, measured, and precise. And every step felt intentional. Like she wasn’t moving through the hallway. The hallway was moving around her, and suddenly my pulse spiked. “Don’t react,” Kai murmured.
Too late. Her head turned and her eyes locked onto mine. Suddenly, everything stopped, not literally, but it felt like it. The noise faded and the air thinned. And for a split second, it was just us. Me… And her.
Selene’s lips curved slightly. Not a smile, it was something sharper and something knowing. Then she looked away. And everything snapped back. “What was that?” I whispered.
Kai’s jaw was tight. “Trouble.”
“That doesn’t help.”
“It’s not supposed to.”
I shot him a look. He didn’t react. His focus stayed on her. That alone told me everything I needed to know, that classes didn’t matter.
Nothing did. Because the entire day felt like a countdown to something I couldn’t see yet.
Selene didn’t speak, didn’t try to interact and she didn’t cause a scene. And somehow. That made it worse. Because it meant she didn’t need to.
By lunch, the tension had spread.
You could feel it in the way people glanced over their shoulders.
In the way conversations died when she passed.
In the way even Mara…. Mara didn’t say a word when Selene walked past her table. That was new and that was wrong. “Okay,” I muttered, dropping into my seat. “I don’t like her.”
Ethan slid into the chair beside me like he’d been waiting. “You’re not supposed to.”
I turned sharply. “You know her?”
He didn’t answer immediately. That was enough. “You do.”
Ethan exhaled slowly. “I know of her.”
“That’s not better.”
Kai appeared a second later, his presence cutting into the space like a blade. “You shouldn’t be here,” he said to Ethan.
Ethan didn’t even look at him. “And yet.”
Tension sparked instantly, sharp and familiar and dangerous.
“Can we not do this right now?” I snapped.
Neither of them responded. Of course, they didn’t. “Selene doesn’t play games,” Ethan said finally, his tone quieter now. “She ends them.” He added.
A chill slid down my spine and across the cafeteria…Selene sat alone.
Perfect posture, untouched food, and unbothered expression. But her gaze….Her gaze lifted and went straight to me again. “She keeps looking at me,” I muttered.
“That’s not a good thing,” Kai said.
“I figured that.”
Ethan leaned slightly closer. “She doesn’t focus on anything without a reason.”
My chest tightened. “Great. Love that for me, because I know.”
Then, Selene stood in no rush and no hesitation. And started walking
straight toward us. My heartbeat picked up fast, loud, and wrong.
“She’s coming here,” I said.
“No kidding,” Kai muttered.
Ethan didn’t move and he didn’t react. He just watched and was waiting.
Selene stopped at our table. Silence dropped instantly.
Like the entire room knew better than to interrupt whatever this was.
Her gaze moved slowly from Kai to Ethan. Then finally to me. Up
close… She was worse. Not louder and not more obvious. Just… sharper.
Like everything about her had been refined into something dangerous.
“My love, Luna,” she said.
My throat felt dry. “Yes.”
Her head tilted slightly, studying and assessing as always.
Like I was something she’d been expecting. “Good,” she said softly.
That single word, It didn’t feel like approval. It felt like confirmation.
“What do you want?” Kai asked, his voice edged now.
Selene didn’t look at him. “I wasn’t speaking to you.”
The dismissal was effortless. And somehow worse than anything aggressive. Ethan shifted slightly, subtle and protective. Selene noticed.
Of course she did, then her lips curved again faint and amused. “Still playing guard dog,” she murmured.
Ethan’s expression hardened. “Still pretending you’re not the problem.”
Selene’s gaze flicked to him briefly. Then back to me. Like he didn’t matter, it was like only I did. “You’re changing faster than expected,” she said.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” I said.
“That’s fine,” she replied calmly. “You will.”
The air felt too thin and too tight. Like something was closing in.
“What do you want from me?” I asked.
Selene held my gaze and unblinked and certain.“Nothing,” she said.
A pause and then….“Yet.” That word landed like a warning. Then she stepped back, just one step. But it felt like space returning, like pressure easing, and like something had been lifted, but not removed. “Stay out of my way,” Kai said coldly.
Selene finally looked at him fully and for the first time, something shifted, it was not fear and not concern, it was recognition. “You won’t be able to stop what’s coming,” she said, simple and certain.
Then she turned and walked away. Then the noise returned slowly with voices, movement, and life. But it didn’t feel the same anymore. “What the hell was that?” I whispered.
No one answered immediately. Because we all knew that wasn’t an introduction. That was a warning, and somehow…I knew this for sure, that Selene didn’t make empty ones.