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Chapter 1

I was about to turn and go when I met Kyle's eyes.The next second, he grabbed my wrist and dragged me into the cave.The moment they saw me, every one of them looked uncomfortable.Ella was the first on her feet. She sounded surprised. "Sasha? Were you... eavesdropping?"Kyle shook his head in exasperation, then softened his voice. "Why are you hovering at the entrance like a scared little mouse? If you want to listen, just come inside!"I dropped my gaze to the posting orders in my hand. They were a complete joke.I stared hard at Ella, my eyes bloodshot."You lied to me to get the spot in the South? With some cheap little game?"Kyle took half a step forward, quietly putting himself between me and Ella."It was my idea. Don't blame Ella."Jack Mercer glanced at me, then took Ella by the wrist and drew her closer to his side."Sasha, now that you know, there's no point hiding it anymore. We all agreed to choose Ella."I looked past Jack, back at Kyle."You once told me that whoever y

Chapter 2

Kyle probably hadn't expected me to actually leave. He chased me to the mouth of the cave and blocked my way."Stop making a scene, okay? It's not that big a deal. Is this really necessary?"Not that big a deal.The four of them dumping me in the brutal North so they could steal my spot. Not that big a deal.Getting together to laugh at what an idiot I was, making me the laughingstock of the whole pack. Not that big a deal.I looked up at him. Suddenly, it was like looking at a stranger.Ever since Ella had shown up, he'd taken the others' side whenever I clashed with them over her. He told me to be the bigger person. To be sensible. To let it go.I used to make excuses for them. They loved me. Everything they did was for my own good.Today, I finally saw how wrong I'd been.Deep down, they were sick of me now.I didn't know exactly when it started, but somewhere along the way, I'd become an outsider to them.I threw the posting orders in his face. "Fine. I'll stop making a scene. I'll

Chapter 3

On the night of the coming-of-age feast, Ella suddenly stood up and suggested we dance. "It's pack tradition. When you come of age, you dance with the person who matters most to you."She spread her arms with a smile and twirled."Who wants to dance with me?"The words were barely out of her mouth before Jack was on his feet."Then what are we waiting for?"He held out his hand to Ella in the pack's traditional invitation to dance.Before she put her hand in his, though, Ella looked over at Kyle, her eyes shining."But I want to dance with Kyle too.""Then you can dance with each of us."David raised his glass with a grin. "Tonight's all about you. Have as many dances as you want."So Jack took the first dance.David took the second.For the third, Kyle stood up and glanced at me. But in the end, he walked over, put his arm around Ella, and danced with her.They kept her at the center of their little circle, one dance after another.After every dance, they told me to wait. My turn was

Chapter 4

I'd just gotten home when I noticed that the profile icons in the group chat on my commstone had suddenly changed.All four of them had switched to different pieces of the same totem image.Kyle had the top left corner. Jack had the top right.David and Ella took the bottom left and bottom right, and together they made one complete picture.I stared at it for a few seconds, then opened the member list.There were five icons in all.But no matter how you arranged them, my plain snowfield icon was the odd one out.Ella posted in the chat."These icons are sooo cute together!"Jack replied with a head-pat emoji."Of course they look good. You picked them."For once, even David chimed in."Really meaningful."Kyle tagged me."Don't overthink it. The totem only has four corners. Worst case, I'll let you use mine for a few days next time."I hadn't said a word, and he'd already decided how I was supposed to feel.I closed the chat without replying.Around noon the next day, Jack sent a locat

Chapter 5

Maren, my instructor, was waiting when I arrived. She stepped forward to meet me."Once you set foot in this camp, your old identity gets locked away.""From now on, you're just Number 713 here. You'll have to put your old relationships on hold. No private messages. While you're training here, you're not allowed any contact with the outside world."I nodded. "I understand."The Northern wind whipped fine snow into my face. There were no familiar cave markets or bonfire gatherings, only snowy mountains stretching into the distance and rows of black-stone training towers.No more messages popping up every other minute. No one asking me to stop on the way for honey fruit. No one telling me to be sensible, to be the bigger person, to step aside for someone else.The endless quiet felt strange, but it was such a relief.At that same moment, back at the pack's market in the South, the private room at the barbecue place was all set up.Seven o'clock sharp.Dinner started right on time.Jack s

Chapter 6

Kyle and the others ignored the pack's ban and followed every lead all the way to the Northern border.But they could only get as far as the border checkpoint. Getting into the training camp itself required a special entry pass.Kyle tried to add Sasha back again and again. Every time, the screen showed him the same thing. "Access denied."He asked every wolf on guard duty, but they all shook their heads. They would only confirm that trainee Number 713 was inside the restricted training grounds. No one outside was allowed to know anything else about a trainee, not even their exact location. Even requests to visit were turned down flat.After days on the road, Kyle's eyes were bloodshot. There was nothing left of his old easy confidence.He waited at the black-stone sentry post outside the camp until, at last, Maren showed up.Maren looked at him, her face perfectly calm."I need to see Sasha. I grew up with her. I'm going to be her mate."Kyle stepped closer, his voice tight. "I have s

Chapter 7

News that Sasha had gotten into the training camp spread fast through the Southern pack.It was the place every young wolf in the pack dreamed of. Everyone knew how hard it was to get a spot there.Now, finally, they understood. Sasha wasn't some fool who'd been dumped in the North. She was a fighter who'd earned her place at the camp.Plenty of wolves had seen those girls humiliate Sasha in front of everyone at the coming-of-age feast.When the Elders heard what had happened that night, they punished the girls according to pack law.They were sentenced to two months of labor at the quarry on the edge of the North.They came running to Ella in a panic, begging her to put in a word for them. They cried and insisted they'd only been joking over drinks.But Ella's own position was shaky now. Kyle, Jack, and David no longer rushed to stand up for her the way they used to.There was nothing she could do to help.Ever since they'd returned from the North, an invisible wall had stood between

Chapter 8

Life at the training camp in the North was far more grueling than I'd expected.In my very first month, I was thrown into intense combat training.A wolf on my squad tossed me a piece of custom protective gear."Any regrets about coming here?"I shook my head."No regrets.""Will you miss your pack down South?"I paused."I'll miss the warm winds down South. And my parents.""Anything else?""Nothing else."My squadmate saw how calm I was and didn't push any further.By the third month, I'd reached my full strength as a wolf. I placed third in the camp's simulated encirclement exercise.Late that night, cheers kept ringing out from the black-stone towers above the training grounds.Maren came over with a big jar of aged Northern fruit wine in her arms."We don't have much here.""But we've got wine to celebrate with."I took a sip. It was sharp and bitter, but it put me far more at ease than the red wine at the bonfire on my coming-of-age night ever had.Six months into training, the c

Chapter 9

Three years of training passed in a blur. Then it was over.I became the youngest Alpha the training camp had ever produced.On the honor stone out on the Northern snowfields, they carved my number, 713, and beside it, my name: Sasha.I brought peace to the border and rewrote the rules for guarding it. I earned one victory after another, with every pack watching.My old pack in the South sent an official letter inviting me home to share my story at its grand ceremony.When I finally turned my commstone back on after all that time, messages flooded in.Kyle alone had sent thousands.The first still sounded like the old, stubborn Kyle. "Sasha, stop sulking."The latest one had lost all its edge. "I'm not asking you to forgive me. I just want to know you're okay."After every tactics match, Jack had sent me a report on how it went.Every time David had made a breakthrough in his mind-power training, he'd left me a line or two.Little by little, they'd shared the past three years of their

Chapter 10

The day before I left, the Elders held a feast to honor me as one of the North's finest wolves.After the feast, Tobias, my old mentor, pulled me aside and asked me to sit with him for a while.He clapped me hard on the shoulder. I could see how moved he was."Will you ever come back to live in the South for good?"I shook my head. "There's so much to rebuild on the Northern border. We still have vast stretches of territory to defend and bring under control.""So you'll be there for years?""Maybe the rest of my life."Tobias's hand stilled around his bone cup. He was silent for a moment."Then go where your heart takes you.""The pack is your home. Whenever you want to come back, I'll be waiting."Something warm stirred in my chest, and I nodded my thanks.Before I left, I went alone to the place where I used to live.The house looked just the way it had back then, and the wolfthorn tree in the yard was still thick with leaves.The ground beneath the tree was level. The hole where we'

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