LOGINALEXANDRIA Hearing Wyatt’s story sent chills down my spine, settling deep inside my chest. I stared at him quietly from where I still sat between his legs on the floor, my fingers loosely wrapped around his hand. His bandaged knuckles rested against my palm while silence filled the room again.Ever since I arrived at Alpha Academy, I thought Wyatt was just like every other Alpha here—arrogant, violent, obsessed with power and fame. The type of Alpha everyone feared because they enjoyed being feared.However, I had been so wrong. Wyatt wasn’t fighting because he wanted power. He was fighting to remove that power from the hands of a small minority. The realization made my chest ache unexpectedly.Suddenly, it felt like I understood him better—his tendency to keep everyone at arm’s length. Despite knowing all of that now, I only found myself falling deeper into him. Against my own will and logic. .Wyatt stared at me carefully. His eyes held so much pain inside them, but they were
WYATT The look on Alex’s face destroyed me the moment I came back to my senses. I didn’t think something like that was possible anymore. At least, not everything I’d already seen. I thought there was nothing left in this world capable of making me feel disappointed in myself. But when she looked at me back in that training room, my heart was nearly ripped out of my chest. I could still see it clearly. Her wide eyes. The fear that flashed across her face for one second. The way she stared at me like she didn’t recognize me anymore.Damon deserved worse.After everything he’d done, after all the blood on his hands, I would’ve gladly kept going until he stopped breathing.But then Alex called my name. And I stopped.For her.Only her.The room around us felt too quiet.Alex was still kneeling between my legs on the floor, her fingers loosely wrapped around my injured hand.She looked up at me carefully.“I’m way too deep into this now, Wyatt,” she muttered softly.There was exhaustio
ALEXANDRIA Once Wyatt walked out of the room, the entire chamber fell into silence.For a second, nobody moved. Nobody spoke. The only sound left was Damon’s uneven breathing against the floor.“Shit,” Mr. Ford cursed sharply, breaking the silence in the room. The word echoed through the metal room as he dragged a hand through his hair in frustration.Mr. Ford immediately turned toward James and Chad.“Bring him to the infirmary,” he ordered. “Now.”Neither of them moved at first.Chad stared openly at Damon’s unconscious body with wide eyes while James remained unusually quiet beside him.Eventually, Chad swallowed hard before crouching beside Damon carefully.“Moon Goddess,” he muttered under his breath.Damon looked terrible. One eye was already swelling badly. His lip was split open, and bruises were beginning to darken across his jaw and throat.Despite seeing the entire fight myself, I still couldn’t fully believe Wyatt had done this to him. Damon wasn’t weak. He was far from
ALEXANDRIA Everything happened so fast that all I could do was stand there and watch. The altercation between them didn’t feel like a fight anymore. It felt like a war. The strongest Alpha against the greatest Alpha.A sick crack echoed through the metal chamber as Damon drove Wyatt backward, denting the wall behind him. However, Wyatt retaliated immediately, grabbing Damon by the throat before throwing across the room with terrifying force. I stumbled backward instinctively. My back hit the cold metal wall behind me. The impact jolted through my spine, but I barely felt it.I couldn’t look away.This was the first time I had ever seen Wyatt lose control like this.Even when he was angry, he always seemed perfectly aware of himself.At this moment, he looked terrifying. Meanwhile, Damon was losing his composure, too. Not only that, but he was losing the fight itself. Wyatt slammed another punch directly into Damon’s face.Blood splattered across the floor. Damon staggered before
ALEXANDRIAThe moment I stepped out of the room with James’s stone still clutched in my hand, Wyatt’s gaze darkened instantly. His eyes flicked from my face down toward the stone in my palm before slowly lifting back to me again.Meanwhile, my own thoughts were still stuck inside that room with James.I don’t think Wyatt would appreciate me fighting with you either.A chill crawled down my spine all over again.Did he know?No—actually, scratch that.James definitely knew something.Out of all the Alphas here, he was probably the only few observant enough to piece things together properly. Movement suddenly caught my attention.Chad stumbled out from another room behind Wyatt, looking destroyed. His shirt was already hanging by threads, but now somehow even his pants looked ripped apart too.I stared at him for one long second, stifling my laughter. He looked like he lost a fight with a wild animal.“Don’t say a word,” Chad warned immediately after noticing my expression.Before Chad
ALEXANDRIA “Yeah,” Wyatt answered with a smirk. “We did.” I elbowed him hard before he could say anything else. He didn’t react physically, but the smug look he sent me afterward made me want to commit violence.“Anyway,” Chad said, stepping forward while holding up a glowing blue stone between his fingers. “We tied.”Beside him, James sighed and lifted his own stone too.Mr. Ford glanced between them before giving a curt nod. “Then both of you will have a rematch then.” “What about you two?” he asked. Wyatt slowly pulled something from his pocket. A familiar golden stone glinted beneath the lights. My stone.I stared at it for one second before a curse slipped under my breath. Mr. Ford nodded. “Wyatt advances then. James and Chad will play for another five—“Wait.” The word left my mouth before he could finish.Everyone looked toward me.Slowly, I reached into my pocket. Wyatt’s expression shifted slightly. With that, I pulled a black stone from my pocket. The silence in the







