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Chapter 18 ~ A Dangerous game
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The Top Boy Is My Mate Chapter 23 ~ Shadows on the field
Zara’s POV Saturday dawned cold and bright, frost silvering the grass beyond my dorm window. I woke up shivering under thin covers, my breath fogging in the dim dawn light. Wolf sports day. Great. The entire academy was buzzing about it all week, but all I cared about was calling Aunt May. My mind burned with questions — about Mira Blackwood, about the journal hidden under my pillow, about why my name kept popping up in places it didn’t belong. But calls weren’t allowed until after sports ended. I clenched my fists under the blanket. Why does everything here feel like a cage? I dragged myself up, showered and pulled on my thickest sweater, and met Talia at breakfast. She was humming under her breath as she sprinkled cinnamon onto her porridge. The dining hall was rowdy today, packed with students chattering about which wolf team would win the territory run. Above us, giant banners shimmered with house sigils. “You look dead,” Talia said cheerfully, biting into a buttered roll. “T
The Top Boy Is My Mate Chapter 22 ~ Vanishing point
Zara’s POV THE NEXT DAY… The sun rose through the low rolling mist that morning, making the academy spires look like jagged islands floating in pale gold clouds. I watched it from my dorm window, arms wrapped around my knees, chin balanced between them. My thoughts felt heavy, sluggish, like soaked wool. I should have been studying for midterms — my notebooks lay scattered across my duvet, equations and incantation runes half-memorised. But all I could think about was the way Atlas had looked at me yesterday in Herbal Studies. As though he was reading secrets off my bones. As though he already knew something I didn’t. A sharp knock at my door snapped me out of my daze. I flinched, throat tight. “Yeah?” I croaked, voice hoarse. The door creaked open and Talia poked her head in. Her dark curls were half-tamed by a thin red ribbon today, her eyes lined with smudged black kohl. She looked… uneasy. “Did you hear?” she whispered, stepping fully into the room and closing the door behin
The Top Boy Is My Mate Chapter 21 ~ Stamps
Zara’s POV I woke up with a tightness in my chest. The memory of that letter clung to me no matter how much I tried to piece the possibility in. No doubt, it was Aunt May’s neat handwriting, the slight floral scent of her perfume embedded into the paper fibres… and yet, something was off. Something so deeply wrong it made my stomach twist every time I remembered. My boots thudded against the waxed hallway floors as I stormed down the east corridor towards the Letter Office. The morning air still carried the cool bite of dawn, but my palms were sweaty with impatience. The academy’s white walls were lined with black iron lanterns humming softly. I shoved past a few first-years huddled over a single textbook, ignoring their startled squeaks. When I reached the Letter Office, the smell of parchment and melted sealing wax hit me. The room was narrow, with pigeonhole cubbies stacked to the ceiling, each labelled with brass plates for dorm wings and family codes. Behind the tall wooden co
The Top Boy Is My Mate Chapter 20 ~ The crack begins
Zara’s POV The hallway outside the East Dorm was darker than usual. The sconces that usually flickered with enchantment light barely glowed. I rubbed my arms, nerves crackling under my skin. My shoes were too loud on the marble, echoing like warning bells. Midnight felt heavier tonight, like the walls themselves were listening. It started this morning. The Academy newsletter, The Howl & Fang, plastered across every screen in the cafeteria. Their “Midterm Romance Rankings” was supposed to be a joke. Until I saw the names. #1: Jace & Alex — Power Couple Goals #2: Atlas & Zara — Reigniting the Flame? I’d nearly choked on my water. Alex had looked ready to crawl under the table. Jace had remained calm, expression unreadable. Atlas? He smirked like it was hilarious. Like I hadn’t just been publicly paired with the most emotionally annoying confusing male in the entire school. I’d tried to avoid them all day. Even skipped training. Hid out in the East Wing garden until curfew. But no
The Top Boy Is My Mate Chapter 19 ~ Whispers in stacks
Zara Midterms turned the academy into a prison. Every hallway buzzed with students, paper crumples, and the low drone of students reciting facts under their breath like prayers. Even the combat wing had quieted, no training, no duels — just the suffocating silence of too many brains trying not to fail. The main library was a disaster. Every table taken. Bodies slumped in uncomfortable chairs, backpacks filled with notes, enchantments pulsing weakly in the corners. I had tried, gods knew I had, to find a place to concentrate. But the whispering, the shuffling, the smell of stress, and sweat…. It rose to my skull. So I asked Mina Roja, our class captain, quietly over breakfast, where people didn’t study. She blinked at me. “Old East Wing.” I frowned. “Why not there?” She leaned closer like the shadows might hear. “It’s sealed. They say part of the roof caved in a few terms ago. Unsafe.” She lowered her voice further. “Also cursed.” Still, later that afternoon, I found myself pu
The Top Boy Is My Mate Chapter 18 ~ A Dangerous game
Atlas The squeak of rubber soles echoed down the hallway, the late afternoon sun casting long stripes of gold across the marble floor. I spun my basketball between my palms, needing the burn in my muscles and the smack of the ball against the court to shut out the static in my head. But then I heard it. “…Zara Blackwood. What’s her record before Blackwood Academy?” I slowed, one foot dragging, the ball stopping in my hand mid-spin. That was Jace. I tucked myself behind the wall near the staff corridor, peering just enough to see the shapes, Jace, all calculated stillness, speaking to Professor Delrin who clutched a folder close like it might shield him from whatever question came next. “She was transferred after that Mira girl’s disappearance, right?” Jace pressed, voice mild but lined with tension. “No written evaluations? No reports from her previous pack school?” Delrin shifted uneasily. “I’m not at liberty to disclose everything.” Jace smiled that razor-sharp grin he’d p
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