Rose’s POVThe corridor swallowed me whole.Moonlight sliced through the high arched windows in cold, silver bars, turning the stone floor into a fractured chessboard of light and shadow. My boots echoed too loudly—sharp, betraying clicks that ricocheted off the vaulted ceiling like accusations. Each step felt watched, judged, as if the academy itself had eyes in the walls. I walked faster, arms wrapped tight around my torso, as if I could physically hold myself together, as if speed could outrun the heat still pulsing under my skin, the phantom weight of his thumb on my pulse, the echo of his praise searing itself deeper with every frantic heartbeat.Thump-thump-thump.The rhythm was relentless, a war drum refusing to quiet, pounding in my ears, my chest, my throat. My wolf paced alongside it, no longer frantic or cowering, but alert—ears pricked forward, tail low and still, silver eyes fixed on some invisible horizon only it could see. It wasn’t afraid anymore. It was listening. Wa
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