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Chapter 11 – Blackmail

The photo arrived at noon.I was sitting in the dining hall, pushing food around my plate, trying to ignore the way everyone was staring at me. The whispers had been constant since the arena—she's not human, her eyes glowed, she threw Freya across the room—but today felt different.Today, the whispers had teeth.I looked up.A girl at the next table was holding her phone. She was looking at me. Smiling.Not a nice smile.She turned the phone toward me.And my blood turned to ice.The screen showed a photo.Me. Nikolai. In my room. His hands in my hair. My hands on his chest. Our faces inches apart, lips almost touching, the moment frozen forever in perfect, damning clarity.When was this taken?How did someone—And then I remembered.The window.The shape in the darkness.Lukas's green eyes gleaming in the shadows.Got you.I found him in the library.He was sitting in a high-backed chair by the window, a book open on his lap, looking for all the world like he didn't have a care in ex

Chapter 12 – Thorne's Secret

Three days.I hadn't left my room in three days.Meals appeared outside my door—trays of food I didn't eat, glasses of water I didn't drink. Notes slid under the door—Ela, please talk to me. Ela, I'm sorry. Ela, don't do this. I recognized Nikolai's handwriting on some of them, Kai's on others.I didn't read them.I couldn't.Every time I looked at his name, I saw Lukas's smile. Every time I thought about his face, I heard his voice: A wolf in human skin. A monster wearing a girl's face.So I stayed in my room.And I cried.The library was empty at midnight.I'd snuck out while the dorm mother was sleeping, creeping down the stairs in my bare feet, my uniform wrinkled, my hair a tangled mess. I couldn't sleep. Couldn't eat. Couldn't breathe in that tiny room for another minute.I needed answers.And the only place I might find them was here.The stacks loomed above me, dark and endless. I wandered through them without purpose, my fingers trailing across the spines of books I couldn't

Chapter 13 – Mother's Past

The photograph slipped from my fingers.Floated down to the stone floor like a fallen leaf.I didn't pick it up.Couldn't.Because my hands were shaking too hard, and my vision was blurring at the edges, and my brain was screaming at me to make sense of what I'd just seen.Nikolai's father.My mother.Together.Intimate."What is this?" My voice came out strangled. "Thorne, what the hell is this?"Thorne bent down and picked up the photograph. He looked at it for a long moment, his gray eyes unreadable, then handed it back to me."Your mother," he said, "and Dmitri Volkov. Nikolai's father.""I can see that." I stared at the image. At the way my mother was leaning into him. At the way his arm was wrapped around her shoulders. At the way they were both smiling—not the polite smiles of acquaintances, but the real smiles of people who knew each other. Really knew each other. "Were they...?""Lovers?" Thorne shook his head. "No. Something more complicated than that.""More complicated tha

Chapter 14 – Father Figure

I didn't sleep that night.How could I? Thorne's words were still echoing in my skull, bouncing off the walls of my brain like bullets in a chamber.Your father is Dmitri Volkov. Nikolai's father.That makes Nikolai not your fated mate. It makes him your brother.I'd run from the library. Run through the dark hallways, past sleeping students, past portraits that watched me with painted eyes. Run until my legs gave out and my lungs burned and I collapsed against a wall somewhere in the north wing, gasping for breath.Brother.Nikolai is my brother.The boy I almost kissed. The boy whose hands were in my hair. The boy who looked at me like I was the sun and the moon and every star in the sky.My brother.I'd thrown up in a potted plant.Then I'd crawled back to my room and lain on the floor, staring at the ceiling, waiting for dawn.Morning came too fast.I didn't go to class. Didn't eat breakfast. Didn't answer the knock on my door—Kai's knock, gentle and hesitant, followed by his voic

Chapter 15 – The Challenge

The announcement came three days later.I was sitting in the dining hall, pushing food around my plate, when the screens flickered to life. Dozens of them, mounted on the walls, showing the face of Headmaster Vane.He looked older than before. Thinner. The shadows under his eyes were deeper, and his hands trembled slightly as he gripped the edges of the podium.I hadn't spoken to him since I'd walked out of his office.I hadn't opened my mother's letter either.It was sitting in my desk drawer, still folded, still sealed, waiting for me to be brave enough to read it."Students of Silvermoon Academy," the headmaster said. "As you know, the annual Alpha Tournament begins in one week."A murmur rippled through the hall. Excitement. Anticipation. A few students howled."This year's tournament will be different," he continued. "The stakes are higher than they've ever been. The winner will not only become the sole leader of this academy. They will also claim—"He paused.His eyes found me.

Chapter 16 – Blood Moon Rising

The arena was packed.Every student in Silvermoon Academy had gathered in the stone bleachers, their voices rising in a chaos of excitement and anticipation. The morning sun painted the dirt floor gold, and the weapons on the walls gleamed like promises.I sat in the front row.Right at the edge.Where I could see everything.Where everyone could see me.The prize, they whispered. The human. The key to unlimited power.I kept my eyes on the arena floor.On the four alphas standing at the center.Nikolai was in black—black shirt, black pants, black boots. His w

Chapter 17 – The Confession

The door clicked shut behind Kai.His footsteps faded down the hallway, slow and heavy, each one a small death. I stood in the middle of my room, my hands shaking, my lips still tingling from his kiss.Nikolai hadn't moved.He was still standing by the door, his back against the splintered frame, his golden eyes fixed on me. The firelight caught the angles of his face—the sharp jaw, the hollow cheeks, the scar above his eyebrow."Kai," I said. "Is he—""Gone.""You shouldn't have—""I know."He pushed off from the door.Walked toward me.

Chapter 18 - The Curse

I stared at the black blood on the pillow.My hands were shaking. My whole body was shaking. The symbols carved into the headboard seemed to pulse in the dim morning light, glowing faintly like embers beneath ash.The bond is sealed.But what did that mean?I touched the blood again. It was cold now. Thick. It didn't smear like normal blood—it clung to my finger like oil, like tar, like something wrong."Ela?"I spun around.Kai was standing in the doorway, his brown eyes wide, his hand still on the splintered frame where Nikolai had broken through last night."Kai—"

Chapter 19 – Trust No One

I didn't answer Lukas.I couldn't.His words hung in the air between us, heavy and poisonous, and all I could do was stare at his green eyes and try to find the lie beneath them.Nikolai used you for power.He used your body, your blood, your bond.But I would love you."Ela." Lukas reached for me again. "Say something.""No.""No?""I don't believe you." My voice was shaking, but my words were steady. "I don't believe you, and I don't trust you, and I need you to leave.""Ela—"

Chapter 20 – The Revelation

The room was silent.Nikolai stood across from me, his face pale, his hands trembling. The symbols on the wall glowed faintly behind him—our names, our bond, our curse—all of it carved into stone like a prophecy that couldn't be escaped."Ela," he said. "Please. Let me explain.""Explain what?" My voice was ice. "Explain how you've known about the bond since before I arrived? Explain how you let me fall for you without telling me the truth? Explain how you—""I was going to tell you.""When?"He didn't answer."That's what I thought."I walked toward him.Each step felt

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