All Chapters of Assassin of Alpha Academy: Chapter 91 - Chapter 100

Lyra’s POV I went still. Not Kael. Not Cassian. Not Rowan. A woman stood between the trees ten yards away, dressed in Aurelia gray with a hood pulled low over her face. She held no weapon that I could see, which meant she was either stupid or very dangerous. Given how my life had been going, I doubted stupid. My dagger rose in my hand. “Stay where you are.” She lifted both hands slowly, palms out. “If I wanted you dead, you never would have made it out of the hatch.” “Cute. Did they teach you that line in traitor school?” Her mouth curved slightly. “They taught me in the same place they taught you.” The words scraped over my skin. I adjusted my grip on the dagger. “Who are you?” She stepped forward just enough for the moonlight to catch the lower half of her face. Older than me. Maybe late twenties. A scar cut through the corner of her mouth and disappeared beneath her hood. Her eyes were pale, almost colorless, and far too calm for someone standing in the woods beside a

Lyra’s POVThe forest exploded into movement.For one second, everything happened at once. Aurelia’s soldiers surged from the trees with their gray uniforms slipping through the dark like smoke, blades already drawn and pointed at the people I had just chosen over them. Mud splashed beneath their boots. Branches snapped. The glow from their flashlights cut through the rain-heavy air in sharp white lines, blinding and disorienting as they fanned out around us like they had rehearsed this moment a hundred times before. And maybe they had. Maybe this entire nightmare had been planned long before Rowan ever kicked open my bedroom door, before Kael and Cassian ever looked at me like I was something worth protecting, before that stupid bond wrapped itself around my chest and started ruining every lie I’d been raised to believe.The first blade came for my throat.Not Kael’s. Not Cassian’s. Mine.Apparently Aurelia handled rejection about as well as I did.I dropped low just before the edge

Lyra’s POVThe forest seemed to pause around that truth, even with blades clashing and water roaring beneath us. Kael’s rage sharpened through the bond until it nearly stole my breath. Cassian looked at the masked soldiers with dawning disgust. Rowan went pale behind him, which said a lot considering Rowan’s usual response to terror was making terrible jokes until someone threatened to gag him.The Red Line leader lowered his blade.“You were never meant to learn that,” he said.I laughed again, but this time there was nothing broken in it.This time, it was pure rage.“Yeah,” I said, stepping over the body at my feet. “People keep saying that to me today.”He raised two fingers.The soldiers changed formation.Not around Kael.Not around Cassian.Around me.They weren’t trying to kill me anymore.They were trying to take me.That realization hit at

Lyra’s POV The fall ripped the air from my lungs before I had the chance to regret jumping. One second Kael’s hand was locked around mine, hot and solid and far too steady for a man throwing himself into a rusted drainage drop with soldiers at his back, and the next the forest vanished above us in a smear of rain, branches, broken iron, and darkness. My shoulder cracked against something on the way down, hard enough to send pain flashing across my ribs, but I refused to make a sound because the last thing I needed was Kael thinking he had permission to worry about me louder than he already did. The old ladder bolted into the wall gave a horrible metallic shriek beside us, snapping loose in pieces as we fell, and for one dizzying second I thought the entire tunnel mouth was going to collapse and bury us before Aurelia ever got the chance to drag me home. We hit the slope at the bottom together. Mud swallowed my boots first, then my knees, then the rest of me as the earth angled sha

Lyra’s POVThe supply room felt smaller with every breath. Rowan sat on the narrow cot, ribs wrapped in hasty bandages from the medical tin, his shirt peeled off and tossed aside. Cassian paced near the door, shoulders tight, while Kael leaned against the wall, eyes never leaving me. The bond pulsed hot in my chest, pulling us closer without a word spoken.I stepped forward first, hands shaking as I reached for Rowan. "Let me check that," I said, voice low. My fingers brushed his side, and he hissed, not from pain but from the spark that jumped between us. Cassian moved in behind me, his chest pressing lightly against my back. Kael shifted closer too, his hand hovering near my waist before settling on my hip."This... feels different," Rowan muttered, awkwardness creeping into his usual sarcasm. He glanced at the others, then back to me. "Like we all know what's coming but no one's sure how to start."Cassian grunted, his fingers sliding under my soaked shirt to tug it up. "We start w