The other males at Prime Academy looked at me like I was dinner, like they couldn’t wait to sink their teeth or claws into me, and they spoke to me like I was just some annoying girl set out to ruin their day, but that wasn’t what I got from the headmaster. Not by a long shot. He didn’t look at me like I was dinner. He looked at me like I was the exotic diamond at the end of a carefully planned, high-stakes, high-reward heist. There was a greed in his eyes, and a thirst that went far deeper than the body’s physical desires.
