All Chapters of Assassin of Alpha Academy: Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

Alpha Richard’s POVSnow hit my face the second I stepped out of the SUV. I didn’t react to it. Just kept moving.Leon was already waiting at the top of the steps. Stiff posture, like that would change anything. Like standing straight meant he wasn’t panicking. It did the opposite.“Where is my son.”No rise in my voice. No edge either. Just the question.He hesitated before answering. That was all I needed to see.“The crash site is secured exactly as you requested.”I stared at him. Didn’t move. Didn’t blink. Let the silence stretch until it became uncomfortable for him, not me.“That’s not what I asked,” I said. “Take me there.”He moved immediately after that. Good. I didn’t want back-and-forth. Not now.We got in the SUV. I didn’t sit back. I stayed forward, eyes on nothing in particular outside the window. Snow, trees, fence lines passing too fast. My mind kept trying to stay blank but it wasn’t working.Lucian always did things his own way. That wasn’t new. He ignored rules, ig

Lyra’s POVThe moment we were shoved into line, I knew this wasn’t going to be some quick “observe and leave” situation. I thought we'd be sitting down.Rowan stood beside me, shoulders tense under his cloak, jaw clenched like he was actively trying not to say everything he was thinking.Which, for him, was impressive.The amphitheater settled into a strange kind of stillness.Not peaceful.Not sacred.Controlled.Like everyone had done this so many times, they’d forgotten it was supposed to feel strange.The blood moon sat higher now.Heavier.Almost directly above the opening in the stone roof of the amphitheater.3 a.m. is creeping closer without anyone needing to announce it.Alpha Leon stepped forward again.The entire space shifted the second he spoke.“Tonight,” he began, voice cutting clean through the air, “we stand under the blood moon not as individuals, but as continuation.”A pause.His eyes moved across the senior class.“And before we proceed with the Marking, we acknow

Lyra’s POV It was as if the blood moon fractured and the earth cracked into two. A red light appeared so bright in front of my face that I didn’t even pay attention to the screams around me. A hand shot out from the bright red light, grabbing me by my chin. I tried to break loose, force myself away from this madness, but in the end, it was as if I was frozen in place. A woman cloaked in silver light stepped, or maybe she appeared from the red light. She was the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen. But beautiful didn’t feel like the right word. She looked unreal. Like she wasn’t made of flesh and bone the way the rest of us were, but something far older. Something not meant to walk among mortals. Her skin glowed with an ethereal softness, pale and luminous beneath the violent red light surrounding us. Long silver-white hair spilled over her shoulders and down her back in loose waves, almost blending into the light wrapped around her body. Her face was impossibly perfect. Sha

Amber’s POV The cords of power stretched away from me, not towards someone on the stage, but to someone who made me consider my own death. The cords wrapped around Alpha Richard, the same Alpha that I knew growing up as a child in the Star Pack, and also who my Dad worked under. I felt the mate bond snap into place, along with the feelings of love and longing that came with it. I knew automatically that a rejection would never work, he'd never agree to it, and my death could never be an option. He'd rushed onto the stage, surrounded by his guards, some of whom I'd known since I was a child. There looks of pity and sadness broke another part of me and just as I felt as if I'd fall onto the floor his hand wrapped around my arm in a tight hold. “Little Amber, how the Moon Goddess plans i’ll never know. But giving you to me means only one thing. She knows I need an heir,” he whispered in my ear. I didn't even look at him as I stared at Lyra, who was now surrounded by her own Godd

Amber’s POVAbout a mile before we arrived at the gates leading into Star Pack territory, Watson pulled over at Richard’s request. He wanted to make sure I wouldn’t have to be peeled off the floor of an armored car in front of half the pack—including my own father—upon our arrival.You’d think he’d be more concerned about the now purple bruises blooming across my face, or the fact that my wolf was struggling to heal them because of sheer exhaustion.But that was fine.Let them see.Let every single one of them see exactly what kind of man Alpha Richard really was.Growing up, I looked up to Alpha Richard and Luna Jessica as if they were second only to the Moon Goddess herself. They had seemed untouchable. Perfect.But apparently all it takes is enough death, trauma, and greed to rot a person from the inside out.“Sir, we are approaching the main pack house. There’s already a large crowd forming,” Watson informed Richard, his voice careful, like he wasn’t sure whether he was reporting