LOGINI never applied to Alliance Elite Academy. I didn’t even know it existed until the letter arrived with my name on it in ink that looked wet, though it had supposedly traveled halfway across the country to reach me. Everyone else at Alliance Elite has fangs, scales, feathers, or fur under their skin. Dragons walk the halls like they own them. Wolves run the training yards. I’m the only student in four centuries who’s just… human. Or at least that’s what I believed, right up until the first time something inside me answered back. Four of the most powerful heirs on campus noticed me before I understood why. Kaelen, heir to the Ashfyre dragon clan. Rhys, the Callahan pack’s next Alpha. Lysander, a fae prince with a smile that hides everything. Kai, a fox spirit nobody quite trusts and everybody underestimates. One by one, they looked at me like I was something they’d been waiting for their whole lives. “You’re our mate.” I laughed the first time someone said it to my face. I stopped laughing the day I found out exactly what kind of human I actually am, and exactly how many people at this academy would be willing to kill me for it.
View MoreThe accusation didn't take long to surface, and it didn't come from Aldric first. It came from Kaelen, standing in the war room an hour after the message had been read aloud to the assembled staff, voice hard in a way Wren had rarely heard from him."She's the only outsider who's had access to information like this," he said, not looking at Elara directly, though everyone in the room understood exactly who he meant. "Eleven years of Ashkindred loyalty doesn't just evaporate because of one good conversation in a training circle.""I didn't tell anyone," Elara said, steady despite the weight of every eye in the room swinging toward her. "I have no reason to. I gave up everything walking away from them. You think I'd hand this back for free?""I think I don't know what you'd do, because I still don't fully understand why you left in the first place." Kaelen's jaw was tight, controlled anger rather than open accusation, which somehow felt worse. "Convenient timing, though. You mention Ald
The consequences of the archive found her before lunch.A staff member Wren didn't recognize intercepted her outside the dining hall, expression carefully neutral in the way that meant trouble dressed as procedure, and informed her that Headmaster Aldric wished to see her immediately regarding a missing staff key card and unauthorized access to restricted archive records.She walked to his office with her stomach in knots, the folded note and map still hidden in her jacket, rehearsing explanations that all sounded worse out loud than they had in her head.Aldric didn't raise his voice when she arrived, which somehow made it worse than if he had."You accessed your mother's file without my knowledge," he said, not a question. "Using a credential that wasn't yours to use.""I did." She saw no version of this where lying improved anything. "I needed to know what actually happened, not the version you decided I was ready to hear."Something flickered across his composed expression, not qu
Wren went to the east courtyard alone, against every instinct that told her to bring at least one of the bond along, because some part of her understood that Elara wouldn't have asked for privacy if she'd meant to use the meeting for anything but exactly what the note claimed.She found her already there, sitting on the low stone wall bordering the fountain, watching the sky lighten from black to gray with the particular stillness of someone who'd been awake all night and had made peace with it."You followed me to the archive," Wren said, sitting down at a careful distance. "That's how you knew.""I followed you because I've been watching you since we got back. Not the way the academy staff watch me, with clipboards and questions. Watching to understand what kind of person you actually are, underneath the parts everyone else already decided to admire." Elara's eyes stayed on the fountain rather than on Wren. "I saw the note before you hid it. I read it upside down while you weren't l
She chose Kai, in the end, not because she trusted him more than the others but because she trusted his particular skill more for exactly this kind of task. Kaelen would have wanted to confront Aldric directly, certain and forceful in the way dragons tended to be. Lysander would have wanted to solve it as a puzzle laid out on a table, methodical and visible. Rhys would have simply said the true thing to Aldric's face and accepted whatever fallout came from it. Kai was the only one of them who knew, instinctively, how to move through a place without anyone noticing he'd been there at all, and Wren needed exactly that kind of quiet if she wanted to find Aldermere before anyone decided to stop her from looking.She found him in the training yard after hours, and told him everything: the archive, the note, the name that meant nothing to her and apparently nothing Aldric had ever chosen to share.He didn't ask why she hadn't gone to the headmaster first. She appreciated that more than she






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