LOGIN**MAXIMILIAN**
I hated Valentine’s Day week more than anything else in my life. Every year, I made a point of avoiding it, spending my days with friends at our private meeting spot behind the school. And that year was no different.
“There he goes again… burning every gift he received from girls,” Jaxon sighed from where he sat beside Julian, watching as I
**ISABELLA**Pansy’s face turned white over whatever Maximilian whispered to her. My heart trembled in my chest with curiosity, and dread, at seeing this side of Maximilian. It had even silenced the proud Alphas in the audience and left them alarmed.“How could you…?” Pansy cried, her makeup smeared and her condition even worse than before. “I loved you, Maximilian. I went this far to have you, but you… you…”“Ugh…disgusting,” Maximilian groaned, standing up. “You should’ve done a background check on me when you were doing all that digging,” he said, glancing down at her blankly. “I, Maximilian Vense, hate girls like you.”Pansy looked hea
**ISABELLA**There was… another me.And I realized it only after the nightmare ended, the moment I stood over the stalker who had nearly killed Maximilian.She was the one who had caused the accident… the one who would’ve taken his life if he hadn’t leapt from his car seconds before it plummeted over the edge of the cliff.Now, she lay in a pool of her own blood, barely breathing.Her crimson life seeped across the ground, dripping from my trembling hands—hands I barely recognized.That version of me—the cold, unflinching part—I hadn’t even known she existed.
**MAXIMILIAN**At the age of fourteen, I had my first shift. And it wasn’t the way the others described it.No moonlight blessings. No soft murmurs of comfort from a mother or father. How could they possibly know when one was barely present in my life during my childhood and the other was either busy with the pack or locked in his room with his new Luna.The moment I felt my shift, I ran into the woods without anyone knowing. The first shift was just painful and lonely… until… she came.“Max!” Rushing towards me out of the line of trees, stumbling on the snow on the ground, she was the only one who came looking for me.
**MAXIMILIAN**“Win me,” I whispered, savoring the quickening rhythm of her heartbeat as my hand settled on her waist and my lips brushed against the shell of her flushed ear.My mouth curved into a slow smirk. Her emotions were delectable, every beat of her heart etched my name into her soul. “Tell me, Bella,” I murmured, my voice a low seduction as my index finger traced a teasing line across her lower belly. My wolf’s gaze drifted to Pansy’s now slightly pale face. “You’ll save your Maximilian from evil, won’t you?”Pansy’s eyes widened, shock giving way to fury. Her fists clenched tightly, her stare venomous and sharp, all of it aimed squarely at Bella. But the girl in my arms was unaffected. I didn’t need to see her face
**ISABELLA**“This girl is wolfless.”Everything stopped.The silence. The stares. The gasps.Everything screamed the same truth—My world had shattered again.The darkness I’d fought so hard to escape swallowed me whole. It stabbed at me from all sides, a thousand invisible blades piercing deep, until I could no longer feel my body. I didn’t know if I was breathing. I wasn’t sure if my heart was even beating anymore.I was just… gone.“Wolfless?” Alpha Magnus’ deep voice echoed across the room. It was followed by the faint hum of whisper
**ISABELLA**“Mixed Martial Arts?” Sabrina, Anastasia, and Alina all exclaimed in unison as I stood in front of the club I wanted to join.I nodded as we entered the club, which resembled a gym—but not one made for humans. Here, the students sparred with brutal precision, wrestling, grappling, and conditioning without pads, heavy bags, or mats. This was training built for werewolves.“Wow, I’ve never been in this club before, but it looks so cool,” Alina murmured, eyes wide.“There are handsome guys too,” Sabrina added with a grin.All of our gazes drifted toward the ring where a group of shirtless guys wrestled, t







