Chapter Sixty-nine
Thalina
I must have heard wrong. I must have been too carried away to have thought Professor Maverick said that. I must have been too lost in my thoughts, too overwhelmed, to have misunderstood what he just told me.
There was no way he was the Alpha King. No way he was the man I was sent to kill. Right?
There was no way he was the exact reason I was here—the reason I was sent to this college in the first place.
Right?
Right, Thalina?
But I knew the truth.
I knew the unshakable, inescapable truth.
I had been thrown into a forest of thorns, and there was nowhere to turn. No escape. No salvation.
The man I was deeply in love with—the man I wanted to spend the rest of my life with, the man I never wanted to be without—was the very same man I had been sent to kill. The man I had tried to kill—not just once or twice—was the man I had been searching for all along. And yet, he had been right beside me the entire time.
What do I do now? How do I even
