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No Longer Following Him

No Longer Following Him

Short Story · Werewolf
By:  HyacinthCompleted
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Winning Back the Wife

Campus

Tragic Love

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Feel-Good Story

Childhood Sweethearts

Mate

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The night before the final application deadline at the werewolf academy, the senior channel exploded. [Rhett, why did you change your final choice to Northwood Alpha Academy?] [Weren't you supposed to attend Asterfall Academy outside the territory with Avery?] Rhett replied with casual indifference. [So I changed it. She has my login information. Once she sees what I did, she'll change hers too.] [That little shadow has never been able to stay away from me. Do you really think she'd leave me in Northwood alone?] I stared at my phone, my mind completely blank. Beside my open suitcase lay the graduation gift I had chosen especially for Rhett. He did not know I had already seen everything. If he could abandon the future we had planned for Blaire, then I could let go of him and choose a future that truly belonged to me. All those late-night training sessions and the countless territorial planning maps I had drawn had never been only about staying beside him.

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Chapter 1

Chapter 1

After replying to my professor’s message, I looked up and noticed everyone in the room staring at me.

They were all waiting to see how I would react.

I knew there was no point in continuing that meal.

Still, I needed the truth before it ended.

I asked Tiffany, “When did you get pregnant?”

Tiffany paused for a moment.

She pursed her lips. Then, she shot a quick glance at Howard and said coldly, “September 2023.”

My heart skipped a beat.

That was three years ago, during fall.

Tiffany’s father was having heart problems and needed surgery in the capital.

She could not get away, and through tears, she told me that she wished she could split herself into eight pieces.

I pulled her into my arms and told her, “I’m here for you. I’ll go with him for the surgery.”

That very night, I took on a new online project for the company. It allowed me to work remotely, but I had to put in at least fifteen hours a day.

It went on for a full half-year.

I spent my days caring for him at the hospital and my nights finishing my online work.

I handled everything myself. The doctors even thought I was his biological son.

Every time I video chatted with Tiffany.

She said she had been busy running the store and did not have time to visit us.

I always reassured her, telling her I was right here at the hospital.

I finally have learned what was happening. During that time, she had been busy having a child with another man.

With a bitter smile, I asked her, “So, while I was accompanying your dad through his surgery, you had a child with another man. Is that right?”

The whole table fell silent for a moment.

Dan slammed his cutlery down on the table:

“Brendon Clark, who do you think you are to question my daughter like that? What kind of attitude is that?!

“The fact that you, as a younger person, took care of me during my surgery is a sign of our whole family’s recognition and trust in you. It has absolutely nothing to do with Tiffany having a child with Howard. Don’t mix the two up!

“Howard and Tiffany grew up together. Tiffany made this decision because she couldn’t bear to see him grow old alone.

“You should feel honored to have such a kind-hearted wife.

“You haven’t even met the child. He’s adorable! Having a godson like him is a blessing for you.

“I’ve already had someone bring the child over for dinner. All of you will meet him today.”

No sooner had he finished speaking, than the living room door opened.

Tiffany’s mother, Maryam Spencer, walked in, leading a little boy of about three-years-old.

As soon as the child entered, he ran toward Tiffany and Howard. He smiled and called out, “Mom, Dad!”

Tiffany bent down and picked him up.

Howard stood beside her and gently tickled the tip of the boy’s nose.

They truly were a loving family.

I clenched my teeth. I was just about to turn around and call my sister, Joy Clark, and leave.

The next second, the child in Tiffany’s arms suddenly said to Joy, “Ms. Joy, I finished the gummy candies you bought me last time. When will you take me to buy some more?”

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10 Chapters
Chapter 1
Every word Rhett had written cut into my heart like a dull knife.Asterfall Academy had the best territorial planning program on the continent.Rhett and I had trained together for twelve years. We had prepared our applications side by side, planning to leave Northwood for three years of study.Now he had changed his choice without telling me.Someone in the channel asked: [What if Avery doesn't log into your account? The final selection locks tomorrow at midnight.] Rhett answered almost immediately.[Impossible. Since applications opened, she's checked everything several times a day. She's more serious about it than the academy instructors.] The others began teasing him, saying that no one understood his future mate better than he did.After a while, someone else ventured a question. [But Asterfall's territorial planning program is the best fit for Avery. She's worked toward that admission for years. Shouldn't you at least discuss it with her?]The channel fell silent for a moment. Rh
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Chapter 2
I had just finished washing my face when Rhett began sending one video call after another.[Little shadow, answer the call. I want to see you.] When I continued to ignore him, another message appeared. [Everyone's at our usual place. Come now. I'll send a driver.]He meant the bar where we often gathered after returning from the academy. In the past, no matter how tired I was, I would have gone the moment Rhett said he wanted to see me. This time, I replied: [I'm tired. I don't want to go out.][Are you sick? I'll come over.][I'm not sick. I just need a quiet evening, Rhett.]A message from Blaire appeared in our smaller group chat.[Avery, I'm sorry.] [I was the one who asked Rhett to stay with everyone. I didn't know you would refuse to come because of me.] [If my presence makes you uncomfortable, I'll leave right now. As long as you and Rhett don't fight because of me, I don't care what happens to me.]Every word looked like an apology, yet every sentence reminded anyone reading it
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Chapter 3
"Avery, don't you have anything to say to me?"I turned and found Rhett standing behind me, as expected. His gaze landed first on Nolan's application page, then shifted to me. His expression immediately darkened.I said nothing and started to turn back toward Nolan, but Rhett caught my arm and pulled me out of my chair. "We're talking outside."Ignoring the eyes around us, he led me to the far end of the hallway before releasing me. "How long are you planning to keep this up, Avery?" Anger tightened his voice. "You blocked me, left the group, and now you're deliberately sitting beside Nolan. Is this your way of forcing me to apologize?""No." I rubbed the wrist he had gripped. "I don't want to argue, Rhett. I have an application to finish."Rhett had clearly not expected that answer. His expression froze for a moment. "Unblock me." He spoke as if issuing an order during training, but his eyes kept searching my face. "You haven't answered a single call. I came to find you, Avery. You co
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Chapter 4
I kept my phone in my hand.Rhett waited for me to pass it over, still saying nothing about the choice he had changed.The silence between us grew heavier.Blaire appeared at exactly that moment."Rhett, everyone's waiting for you at the bonfire."She caught his sleeve, then turned to me with a concerned smile."Avery, I know how much Asterfall means to you. Please don't give it up because of me."I said nothing.She stepped closer, her hand still resting on his arm."You've worked so hard. You should go. I'll make sure Rhett isn't alone here."People nearby had begun to look at us."I wish I had your choices," she added softly. "But Northwood is the only place I have left."She sounded as though she was defending my future. Her hand stayed on Rhett's arm while she offered to take my place beside him.Rhett frowned."You don't have to keep explaining yourself, Blaire."Then he looked at me."She's trying to be considerate, Avery. What more do you want from her?""I haven't asked her to
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Chapter 5
When I went downstairs the next morning, Rhett was already sitting in the living room. He had clearly not slept. His eyes were bloodshot, yet beside him sat my favorite cinnamon roll and a glass of warm milk.My mother did not know what had happened the night before. She assumed Rhett and I had simply fallen into another ordinary argument. "Talk it through calmly," she said, patting my shoulder before leaving us alone.Rhett pushed the breakfast toward me. "Eat something first. Then come to the academy with me.""Why?""To withdraw your acceptance from Asterfall." He said it so naturally, as though it were a matter of no consequence."The final portal is already closed.""I know." Rhett pulled a late-admission form from a folder. "Greyford Institute is still accepting students from within the territory. I asked an instructor to hold a place for you. They have a territorial planning program too. Its ranking is only a little lower than Asterfall's."A little lower was a generous descript
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Chapter 6
When my mother saw the returned ring, she finally asked what had happened between us.I hid nothing. I calmly told her how Rhett had secretly changed his application, how he had allowed Blaire to kiss him, and how he had arrived that morning with a late-admission form from an inferior academy and tried to decide my future for me.My mother remained silent for a long time. "Are you certain?""I am."She did not ask me to yield for the sake of the two families. Instead, she crossed the room and embraced me. "Then go to Asterfall. Your life should not begin with becoming someone's Luna."I packed within two days and submitted a request to the Northwood territorial council to cancel our registered courtship arrangement. Rhett and I had never completed a mate mark or entered a formal mating bond. Our future union had been nothing more than an expectation shared for years by our families and ourselves. Canceling the registration was simple.My hand did not shake when I signed my name.On the
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Chapter 7
Life at Asterfall was busier than I had imagined.During the first week of border training, we were assigned to redesign the warning system on the academy's northern perimeter. The area bordered an unclaimed forest. The old equipment could identify the scent of an intruder but could not distinguish between an ordinary werewolf who had lost the trail, an authorized patrol, and a rogue approaching with violent intent.I proposed combining scent recognition with changes in body temperature and movement patterns, allowing the system to assign different threat levels before an intruder reached the barrier. At first, some members of the group thought the plan was too complicated. Nolan pushed his tablet toward me. "She'll handle the overall design. I can build the operating model. Give us three days."Three days later, the system's false alarm rate had fallen by sixty percent. Professor Lane, who supervised the project, immediately decided to submit our work to the annual Inter-Territory Def
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Chapter 8
On the day Rhett arrived in Asterfall, I was adjusting sensors on the training field. He stood outside the fence, visibly thinner than he had been a month earlier, with deep shadows beneath his eyes.I looked at him once, then returned to checking the data. Rhett waited for a long time before approaching. "Avery.""This is a restricted project area. Visitors are not allowed inside." My voice was calm.He stopped outside the marked line. "I only want to talk.""If this is about the academy application, there is nothing left to discuss.""It isn't about the application." For the first time, the certainty Rhett had always carried was missing from his voice. "I made everything clear to Blaire. She no longer lives in the core residence, and she cannot use my access privileges. After the joint trial, I can apply to transfer to Asterfall.""You don't need to do that.""But you wanted me to come here with you, didn't you?""I did once."Those three words drained the color from his face.Rhett
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Chapter 9
The Inter-Territory Defense Trial began two weeks later.Asterfall, Northwood, and five neighboring territories each sent a team to establish a temporary defense line in an abandoned industrial district. The trial simulated rogue attacks, equipment failure, and large-scale civilian evacuations. I was responsible for Asterfall's overall plan. When I entered the site, I saw a familiar structure on Northwood's defense map.It was the three-layer warning network I had designed two years earlier. The original blueprints had remained in the cloud storage Rhett and I once shared, and I had never published them. Now the design bore another name. Blaire Voss. Blaire had clearly noticed me as well. Wearing the uniform of Northwood's core team, she approached and lowered her voice."The structures only look similar. You never formally submitted your design, so you cannot prove it belongs to you." "The digital underlay preserves the serial number of the original device." I reminded her calmly."On
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Chapter 10
Three years later, I graduated first in my class from Asterfall Academy.The warning system I had designed during the training project had been upgraded and formally adopted by six territories. Before graduation, I also received an invitation from the Continental Territorial Planning Commission. I would become its youngest project leader and participate in the reconstruction of the western territories. Nolan and two other classmates agreed to establish an independent design team with me.Our office belonged to no family and answered to no Alpha.After the graduation ceremony, I saw Rhett again outside the auditorium. Three years had stripped away much of his old sharpness. Northwood had ultimately chosen another candidate to inherit the Alpha position. Rhett remained with the border patrol and started again at its lowest rank.Blaire had appealed the academy's ruling several times, but the evidence of stolen credentials and forged documents was irrefutable. No academy would admit her a
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