Todos los capítulos de My Own Path to Greatness: Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 10

When I submitted my college application, there was less than a minute left before the deadline.One click of the confirm button, and my training path for the next four years would be locked in.My finger hovered over the button. I couldn't bring it down.If I chose a different academy than Charles, we'd end up territories apart.The thought of spending the next four years without training together the way we always had made my chest ache before I could stop it.But before that ache could settle, my phone lit up.Charles's voice came through, laced with obvious impatience."Lilith, are you still not ready? The academy's Moon Night banquet is about to start.""Kevin and the others are already at the front gate. Everyone's here. If you keep dragging your feet, you'll miss the first round."I shot to my feet, shoved everything on my desk into my bag without looking, didn't even confirm my college application, and ran toward the school entrance.The academy corridor was long. I sprinted dow

My cheeks burned. Even my fingertips went cold from the embarrassment.Their laughter was still ringing. I kept my head down, not knowing where to look.Charles finally seemed to realize the joke had gone too far. He set his glass down hard on the table."Enough."He frowned at the group. "We grew up together. We're close friends. Stop making it into something it's not.""Oh, just friends." Kevin dragged the words out on purpose. More laughter.Annie jumped in to smooth things over."Come on, quit it. My family's always said no dating until I'm officially in college."She probably meant to deflect, but it only made them more excited."Perfect timing then. You're about to graduate.""Charles, you've been holding this in for years. You're really gonna keep pretending?""Tonight's your last shot. Miss this and who knows when you'll get another chance."The group got louder. Charles didn't take the bait.I sat there trying to look normal, but my heart was pounding harder and harder.Then s

Charles was quiet for a moment. Then he leaned close and spoke low."Lilith, don't read into it.""We didn't tell you about this beforehand because we weren't trying to leave you out.""You've always hated long trips, right? And this retreat involves crossing the northern mountains. That'd be way too hard on your wolf spirit."He sounded sincere. Like he was only thinking of me."When there's a better chance, I'll take you somewhere else. Just the two of us.""Once we're both settled at our new schools, we'll have plenty of breaks."He looked at me, eyes almost hopeful.I looked back at him. The words I'd been burying for so long finally reached the tip of my tongue."Charles, actually I...""Charles!"Annie's voice cut through from the other side.She hurried over, phone in hand."Did you see our training booklet? I've been looking everywhere. It's got all our practice records in it."She grabbed his wrist."Come help me look? Please?"Before I could pull the booklet out of my bag, An

Charles discovered the next morning that he could no longer reach Lilith.He sent her messages first, then tried calling. The calls never went through.He went to check her social media and found she'd posted a photo of herself completing the challenge.The silver badge gleamed in the sunlight.There were already quite a few congratulatory comments underneath, including several freshmen from Nightshade Academy, enthusiastically inviting her to join their training group after enrollment.Charles read those comments, and an unfamiliar unease stirred inside him.He'd always known Lilith worked hard. But he'd never truly considered that she could go this far without him.Before, all he had to do was look back and she'd be there.But now, she'd gone somewhere he wasn't. Met new people. Completed a promise that had once belonged only to the two of them.He was finding out about her achievements from social media."Charles, are you still looking at her stuff?"Annie's expression was already s

Annie never expected Charles to turn her down in front of that many people.What she found even harder to accept was that after returning to the academy, Charles actually started asking the people around him about Lilith's past.He went to their old training instructors. He pulled up Lilith's training records. And he finally discovered that many of the things he'd always thought were just coincidences had Annie's fingerprints all over them.Once, he'd promised to go with Lilith for her wolf spirit control training.But that morning, Annie had suddenly called, saying she'd been hurt during a combat exercise and needed someone to take her to the treatment center.Charles had gone immediately.It wasn't until that evening that he remembered Lilith.When he messaged her, she just said training was over and told him not to worry.At the time, he'd assumed Lilith had just been unlucky. He never imagined that the instructor would later tell him Lilith had lost control of her wolf spirit durin