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🖱️Sammy🖱️

The moment I sat down, I grabbed Luke by the shirt, slammed him back into his seat, and pinned him there with one hand. His eyes went wide not expecting this, but I didn’t care.

“If you ever touch him again… or even say you want a taste of him again… I will kill you. Do you understand?”

Silence.

Then Luke blinked confused and said the stupidest thing he could have possibly said.

“But you kissed him.”

My jaw ticked. “I did because he’s mine to touch. Mine to tease. Mine to ruin.”

I let go of him and dropped into my seat, pulse still running hot. The moment I walked into the dining hall minutes ago, my wolf snapped awake and screamed one word in my head.

Mate.

The scent dragged me across the hall before I could think. And when I saw him… goddess… I couldn’t resist. His taste. His lips. His heat. One kiss wasn’t enough. It still wasn’t.

But this idiot this absolute fool actually thought he could do the same thing I did.

My wolf growled under my skin. I clenched my fists.

Touching my mate wasn’t bravery.

It was suicide.

And Luke was seconds away from finding that out.

My wolf was snarling, clawing at my mind, demanding answers, but my human side was just as loud, panicked, and confused.

Why did he smell… human? He can’t possibly be one..?

That didn’t make sense. Not in this place. Not in this academy. My nose, my instincts they were never wrong. Every creature here had a signature scent, a power that clung to them like a second skin. And yet… him? Human. Plain. Normal to others but to me it drives me nuts.

How the hell was it even possible for a human to be inside this place? It had never been heard of. Not once. The academy had rules, secrets, guardians things that kept humans out.

And yet here he was, sitting across from me earlier but that peacock drugged him out, the loser with him I don’t know his name but am certain he knows he’s off limit, and his scent that made my wolf howl in confusion.

I wanted to pull him closer again, bury my nose in his neck, feel the warmth of him against me, but another part of me screamed: he doesn’t belong here. This is wrong. Danger.

I barely had time to steady my breathing when a voice slid across the table like a cold blade.

“I heard you kissed a boy, snow coward.”

That tone. That arrogance. That icy mockery.

I didn’t even need to look up.

Of course it was him.

The blood-sucker.

I clenched my teeth as he dropped into the seat opposite me, smiling like sin wrapped in silk. I wasn’t even surprised he knew already. Information in this academy traveled faster than claws, wings, or common sense.

He rested his chin on his hand and kept smiling. “So tell me… does he taste good? Because I’m about to go find him and taste for myself.”

My vision went red.

Deadly red.

My wolf slammed against my ribs so hard the table shook. That spark inside me the one that lit up the moment I kissed him

roared to life like a wildfire.

This blood-sucker must not know.

He must never know that boy is my mate.

If he found out…

If any of them found out…

They would tear him apart.

Not to hurt me.

But to see if a human could really break fate.

And I would level the entire academy before I let that happen.

I leaned forward slowly, letting the predator in me rise. “You touch him… you even breathe in his direction… and I’ll put you in the ground.” I just can’t help calming him even when I know the risk of any creature in here finding out that he’s mine.

The vampire’s smile widened like he’d been waiting for me to snap. “Oh? Getting territorial, snow wolf?”

I didn’t blink. “I don’t share what’s mine.”

His smirk dropped for one second. One small, perfect second.

He knew that tone.

Every creature here did.

But if he figured out why I sounded like that…

If he realized the truth behind the scent on me…

Everything would explode.

War. Blood. Chaos.

And my mate my impossible, human mate would be the one caught in the middle.

I forced my expression into something cold, deadly calm. “Stay away from him.”

He leaned back, licking his teeth like he was amused. “Tempting. But now I’m curious. Humans don’t get reactions like this. Humans don’t make you lose control.”

My fists tightened. He was getting too close.

Too smart.

Too observant.

One more hint and he’d know exactly what I was trying to hide.

I stood up, chair dragging back loudly. My wolf paced under my skin, restless, furious, protective.

The vampire chuckled softly. “Where are you going, snow coward?”

I turned, eyes glowing. “To make sure you don’t find him first.”

Because if this academy discovered that a human boy carried the scent of my mate…

They wouldn’t hunt me.

They would hunt him.