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🖱️Victor🖱️

Helping Sammy was not charity. It never was.

I did not know exactly how I would get him into the human world yet, but I knew one thing for certain. If I helped him now, he would owe me. And when the time came, that debt would be paid in blood. His mate’s blood. Fresh. Powerful. Untouched by rationing or my father’s rules.

For once, I would not have to beg or bargain for supply. I would not have to wait for permission like a starving child. I would feed when I wanted, how I wanted, and to my satisfaction.

That alone made this worth the trouble.

Being marked by a human was insane, truly. It broke every known law we lived by. But I did not care about the romance or the bond or whatever fragile madness tied them together. My interest was practical. Power always was.

I looked at Sammy, pale and shaking, his bond tearing him apart from the inside.

“Stay here,” I told him calmly. “I will be back.”

Then I left.

The student council building was quiet at that hour, which su