LOGINAt sterlinggate university, only one rule matters: Monsters do not belong. Yuna never meant to become one. After being publicly humiliated by her boyfriend , Yuna’s emotions spiral out of control, she had a tough encounter with her bully, Megan, triggering a secret she was never meant to awaken. She isn’t just a werewolf. She is a kitsune. A nine-tailed fox believed to be extinct. A creature every wolf has been trained to hunt. When her transformation is exposed, the university goes into lockdown. Hunters flood the campus. Silver charms are distributed. And one order is made clear: “Kill the kitsune”. The only person willing to protect her is Noah Phillips,the star wolf of the university… and the son of the chief hunter leading the execution. As danger closes in and her powers grow harder to control, Yuna must choose: hide and survive, or rise and fight back. Because if the wolves discover the truth… They won’t just kill her. They’ll start a war.
View MoreDiane called back four hours later.Yuna was sitting on the floor of her dorm room, back against the bed, phone in her lap, when it finally lit up. She answered before the first ring finished."Diane.""I'm still here," Diane said. Her voice sounded tired, but steadier than it had on Sable's line. "She left about an hour ago. I don't know where she went. She just said she'd be in touch, like we'd agreed to something, even though I never said yes to anything.""Are you safe.""I'm in my apartment. Neruda's sitting on my lap judging me for the last four hours of my life." A small, exhausted laugh. "I'm safe. I'm just not sure I'm okay."Yuna waited, giving her the room to say whatever she needed to say."I meant what I said," Diane continued after a moment. "About being scared of what happens if something happens to you. I've thought about it before, honestly. I just never said it out loud, because it felt selfish, worrying about my own security when you're the one actually in danger."
"Who is this," Yuna said, though some part of her already knew, the certainty settling into her chest like cold water."You know who this is," the woman said. "You've spent the last two days finding out."Yuna put the phone on speaker with a shaking hand, and the whole room leaned in around it, Andrew already reaching for a second phone to start a trace, Noah standing so close his shoulder pressed against hers."Where's Diane," Yuna said."Safe," Sable said. "For now. We're having a conversation. She's a very thoughtful woman, your Diane. She listens carefully.""If you've hurt her—""I haven't touched her," Sable said, and there was something almost offended in her tone, like the accusation itself was beneath her. "I don't need to hurt people to move them, Yuna. That's the difference between what I'm building and what Richard has spent fifty years failing to build. Fear is inefficient. Understanding lasts longer.""What did you tell her," Yuna asked."The truth," Sable said. "That th
"Tell me everything you remember about her," Margaret said, once they were all seated in Andrew's study again, the photograph propped against a stack of books on the desk where everyone could see it.James rubbed his hands together, "There isn't much," he said. "The adoption file had her name, Iris Walker, and a note that said the birth was arranged through a private facilitator rather than an agency. No address. No family contact listed. Just a single line that said the birth mother requested no future contact, for the child's safety." He looked at Margaret. "I always thought that line meant she didn't want me. Now I'm wondering if it meant something else.""It meant exactly what it said," Margaret told him. "For the child's safety. She wasn't rejecting you. She was protecting you from whatever she believed was coming for people like her.""Like the purge," Andrew said quietly."The purge happened before Iris disappeared," Margaret said, thinking it through out loud. "But the years
"That's my mother," James said. "My birth mother. I never knew her. I was given up when I was six weeks old.""You were adopted," Yuna said."By a family in Ohio. Good people. They raised me as James Reyes, which is the name on every school record, every piece of paper that exists about me anywhere official." He rubbed the back of his neck. "Walker was her name. My birth mother's. I found it three years ago when I finally got access to my adoption file, and I started using it unofficially. Socially. It felt like the only piece of her I got to keep."Noah, standing slightly behind Yuna, spoke carefully. "So your university records under Reyes would show everything normal.""They would," James said. "I never changed it legally. I just introduce myself as Walker because it's easier than explaining why a stranger should care about my adoption story." He looked at Camille. "I should have told you sooner. I didn't think it mattered. I didn't think anyone would go digging into my transcripts
"You cannot be serious right now."Camille stood in the middle of their dorm room, hands on her hips, staring at Yuna like she had grown a second head. Which, given recent events, wasn't entirely impossible."I'm telling you the truth," Yuna said, sitting on her bed with her knees pulled to her che
"This is completely unacceptable!"A woman's shrill voice cut through the murmur of the crowd as Noah and Yuna approached the main field. Students were packed together in tight rows, teachers positioned at the edges like sentries. On a raised platform at the front stood Mr. Jack Peterson, the schoo
"Everyone get inside! Now!"Coach Sullivan's voice boomed across the campus as students scattered in every direction. The emergency bell was ringing, a piercing wail that sent everyone into a panic."What is that thing?" someone screamed."Did you see it? It was huge!"Noah stood frozen near the gy
"Ready for failure, loser?"Yuna slammed her locker shut and turned to find Megan Wright standing behind her, arms crossed, a smug smile on her face. Her friends flanked her on either side, all wearing matching expressions of superiority.The girls' locker room smelled like cheap perfume and sweat.
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