All Chapters of The Human Among Wolves: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

So the ex Sebastian wanted to make jealous was Lustre… and according to gossip, the boy who made Lustre leave Raven was Sebastian?And the new girlfriend caught in the middle was me?My life here is never going to get better here , is it?“ So you’re Sebastian’s new girl?” she asked with a smile on her face.But the smile didn’t look genuine. It felt forced. Like she was stretching her lips just to keep herself from breaking.“ Lusty… let me talk to her. I’m sure it’s a misunderstanding,” Anastasia stepped forward, her back facing me. She grabbed Lustre’s hands and wiped her tears with her other hand.I didn’t even realize Lustre was crying.Yet she was still smiling at me.“ Is it?” Lustre asked softly. “ Are you not dating Sebastian?”At that moment, Anastasia turned to face me.I took two deep breaths, but it still felt like I couldn’t breathe. I opened my mouth the first time, but my breath caught in my throat.Why was I scared to speak?“ Lily… is it true?” Anastasia asked.Her

Now I have Roy added to my ever-growing list of things to stress about. And let’s not forget Lustre, who carried this awkward aura around her, like a wolf in sheep’s clothing except she was actually a wolf.“Arghhhh…” I grumbled under my breath as I made my way to Maltilda’s office. The judging eyes on me were just too much. They clung to my back, crawled over my skin, made my steps uneven. It was making me nervous.Everyone had gotten the news by now. Of course they had. News traveled faster than scent in this place. I just couldn’t wait for it to die down in a few days. I was silently wishing that, just like other rumors and headlines, my new “relationship” would disappear from their lips by next week.I couldn’t function well with so many eyes on me. One wrong move. One wrong word. One wrong instinct. I could make a deadly mistake that would cost me everything.“Lily…”I heard Anastasia call from a corner. She was helping hang a banner, stretching up on her toes. When she saw me,

I didn’t say anything.Not because I had nothing to say, but because anything I said always made Rex even angrier. Right now, he didn’t look like he wanted to hear my excuses, so I figured it was better to stay quiet.“Didn’t I warn you?” he said again, still sounding furious.“I told you, we don’t accept people like you on my hockey team. And yet, here you are, and on your first day… you screw up your first training.”He was yelling, unprovoked, and I wanted to yell back. I wanted to tell him I joined hockey because it was my choice, because he had no right to control me.I wanted to scream at his perfect, infuriating face and tell him to go to hell with his punishments but I didn’t. I just stood still, letting him yell at me for no reason .“I… I lost my way,” I managed to mumble.“Of course you did. You’re the new girl… the new girl who doesn’t know how to do what new girls do. Stay out of my path.”“Can I just go? I mean, practice is over anyway. I’ll just come back for the next o

As I walked back to whatever class I had next, I couldn’t get my mind off what Rex had said. I had always thought Amber was simply ashamed of having a human daughter. Even when she told me people would talk because they knew about her past relationship, I still didn’t understand why my existence had to be a secret. I was angry. A part of me even hated her for it. But after hearing Rex talk about my father… it made more sense. If she showed up with a human child the same age as when she left human society, it would ruin everything. It would expose her. For once, I was seeing it from her point of view. “Maybe I was doing too much…” I muttered to myself as I walked down the hallway. “You are too much,” Rex scoffed as he brushed past me, our shoulders colliding. I had forgotten he was walking behind me. I watched him enter the classroom first. Then I paused, counting in my head so it wouldn’t look like we came in together. “Three… two… one.” When the count ended, I

Centerville was a small town.The kind where everyone knew everyone. The kind where you never heard about gruesome murders on the news. The kind where the whole town would gather in one night to search for a missing person.It wasn’t just a town.It was a neighborhood.We had only one high school. Everyone attended the same one. When my father died and was laid to rest, the whole town knew — mostly because he was well-known among the older folks.My point is…Centerville should not be the place for our field trip.At least one person would recognize me.At least one.“You look like you just heard you’re about to be beheaded,” Rex teased.I didn’t smile. I didn’t frown.I was just… stunned.“Official dates will be announced next week,” the tutor continued. “You will be paired with a partner, and you’ll complete a task. Your final analysis and results will determine your grades. Note — this is unsupervised. It will be just you and your partner. Any questions?”My hand shot up immediatel