Bound by Midnight: A Blood Debt

The clock strikes midnight, and the boy who just watched me die doesn't recognize my face. Three of my classmates are corpses on the ceremony floor. Then the bells ring, and I'm standing at the academy gates again, admission card still warm in my hand, two hours in the past. I'm the only one who remembers. Every loop resets everyone but me—except him. Leon Wald looks at me like I'm nothing, a commoner beneath his notice, and yet his hand keeps finding mine a second before the blade does. He doesn't remember saving me. His body does. And every six hours, I fall a little harder for a boy who forgets me by dawn. I thought I was looping to save lives. I was wrong—someone erased himself from this academy's history, and he's willing to bury us all in one endless night to keep it buried. Seven loops down. I know his name now. I know what he holds in his hand—the key to the barrier, the key to ending this. The next bell is midnight. If I don't make my move before it rings, I lose everything I've learned—and Leon dies not remembering he ever loved me at all.