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Author: Akomolafe Faith
last update Last Updated: 2025-10-17 22:51:35

The health guardian led Scarlet down a long marble corridor that smelled faintly of antiseptic and luxury...two things she’d never known together.

Her thin boots squeaked against the polished floor, her hands trembling around the registration papers she’d just signed.

“Here’s your dorm,” the guardian said with a professional smile, scanning her from head to toe. Scarlet could feel the silent judgment. Her clothes were clean now, but the scars under them still burned.

The woman pushed the door open. “You’ll be sharing with another student. Try not to make noise after midnight. Curfew is strict.”

Scarlet nodded quietly and stepped in.

The room was bigger than any space she’d ever called her own. Two beds on opposite ends, two desks, sunlight streaming through sheer curtains that smelled faintly of roses and wealth.

Her roommate was already there...curled on the bed, earphones plugged in, pretending not to see her. A girl with long, dark curls, expensive perfume, and the kind of careles
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  • The Reluctant Alpha and His Sassy Queen   97

    The paper curled the moment it kissed the flame.Scarlet didn’t hesitate.She pressed the notebook harder into the candlelight, watching as the edges blackened, the ink blistering and fading into nothing. The words she’d bled onto those pages...plans, filth, fear, secrets...warped and vanished in a hiss.Ronan was still struggling with his shirt, fabric caught over his head like a damn blindfold.She tossed the burning book into the fireplace.And screamed.Not a dainty sound. Not a scared little whimper.It tore out of her throat...raw, sharp, unhinged.Ronan froze.“What the fuck...”The shirt finally came off as he lunged toward her. The flames leapt, greedy, licking at the pages. Smoke filled the room, bitter and acrid.Scarlet staggered back, breath coming apart.Ronan grabbed her, yanking her into his chest so hard it knocked the air out of her. One arm wrapped around her shoulders, crushing, shielding, while his boot came down hard on the burning book.Once.Twice.The fire die

  • The Reluctant Alpha and His Sassy Queen   96.

    Scarlet’s pulse hammered against her ribs like it wanted out.“Does the presence outside pose a threat to you, Mrs. Lycan?”The attorney’s voice was calm. Too calm. The kind of calm that scraped at nerves instead of soothing them.Mrs. Lycan.Scarlet pointed weakly at her own chest, lips parting. “Me?”The word echoed in her skull, sticky and unreal. Mrs. Lycan. Not by bond but by proximity. By a deal signed in shaky ink and half-read desperation.Her wolf stirred, low and alert, not mocking this time...watchful. You signed it. Titles follow contracts. Whether you like them or not.She swallowed.Images flashed...Ronan’s eyes burning across the classroom, the notebook in his hand, the pages she should’ve burned instead of filling with thoughts too dangerous to exist on paper. Plans. Anger. Power. Vengeance whispered in ink. If Ronan had read everything...No. Don’t spiral.If she confessed now, the Lycan would carve into her again with disappointment, with that sharp disappointment th

  • The Reluctant Alpha and His Sassy Queen   95.

    “It’s nothing,” she lied, too fast.Grey studied her face...the way her eyes wouldn’t settle, the way her jaw trembled despite the calm mask she was forcing on. He stepped closer, lowering his voice.“And what’s this secret of yours?”The words sliced clean.Scarlet froze.Not metaphorically. Not dramatically. Her body actually locked, muscles seizing as cold panic poured straight down her spine. Her mouth opened, then closed. Her throat went dry, like someone had packed it with ash.Secret.Grey noticed. Of course he did. His eyes sharpened, the softness slipping into calculation.“Scarlet?” he pressed gently. “You’re scaring me.”She swallowed hard, the sound loud in the tiled silence. Too much. I said too much. Her pulse roared in her ears. She shook her head once, forcing a brittle smile that didn’t reach her eyes.“I...I just meant… everyone has secrets.”Before Grey could respond, the restroom door creaked open.A sharply dressed female stepped in, heels clicking like gunshots a

  • The Reluctant Alpha and His Sassy Queen   94.

    The Blackwood Academy classroom smelled of old parchment, chalk dust, and restrained violence.Rows of students sat stiff-backed beneath the high arched ceiling, wolves simmering just beneath their skin. Power pressed down like humidity before a storm. The kind that made weaker wolves itch, made stronger ones grin.Scarlet didn’t notice any of it.Her pen scratched relentlessly across the page, ink biting into paper as if she were carving herself open one sentence at a time. Her head was bent, hair falling like a curtain around her face. She didn’t look up when Alpha Ronan paused mid-lecture. Didn’t notice when the room fell silent.Liora noticed.She leaned back in her chair, manicured nails tapping once… twice… her eyes narrowing as she watched Scarlet continue writing like a possessed thing. No giggling. No whispering. No stolen glances.Too focused.Too calm.That alone pissed Liora off.Alpha Ronan’s boots echoed as he stepped away from the lectern. Heavy. Measured. Predator step

  • The Reluctant Alpha and His Sassy Queen   93.

    Ronan walked away from Liora and Beta Alaric with his hands buried deep in his pockets, boots crunching against gravel like he was grinding bones beneath them."Something’s off," his wolf muttered.Ronan’s jaw flexed. "You say that every time.""Not like this," the wolf insisted. "Every time Alaric stands too close to her, my hackles rise."Ronan exhaled hard through his nose. Paranoia. That’s what it was. He had bigger fucking problems than overthinking his beta’s proximity to a girl he barely gave a shit about.Alaric liked curves. Real curves. Women who filled his hands and didn’t squeak when they were grabbed. Liora was all sharp edges and arrogance...pretty, yes, but basic as hell. Ronan had chosen her as a responsibility, not a desire. A thing to manage. A leash to hold.Nothing more.He convinced himself of that as he crossed the courtyard.That was when he saw Scarlet.She stood near the stone fountain, moonlight brushing her hair like silver fire, her posture relaxed in a way

  • The Reluctant Alpha and His Sassy Queen   92.

    Scarlet received the mindlink like a slap across the face.Liora’s voice, oily and venomous, slithered into her head. "How much did the Lycan pay you after you fucked your way into his heart, hm?Or did you give him more than just your body?"Scarlet stopped walking.For half a second, her chest tightened...not from guilt, not from shame...but from the sheer, exhausting familiarity of it. Liora’s cruelty was a song she’d been forced to memorize since childhood. Same tune. Same poisonous lyrics.She forced a smile that didn’t reach her eyes and cut the mindlink cleanly, like snapping a rotten bone.“No response,” she muttered to herself. “You don’t get that privilege anymore.”Her wolf purred low in her chest, approving."Good. Silence hurts worse than claws."Outside the academy gates, the morning sun cut through lingering fog. Students whispered as Scarlet and Mira approached...eyes lingering, voices lowering, curiosity sharp and ugly.Then Grey appeared.He stood near the entrance,

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