THE PRINCESS THE ALPHA REJECTED
Khair Laithi shall live as a princeim a princessi'm not a princessthey say i was born a king's daughter
You called her weak and threw away everything.
"I didn't know," I said aloud, my voice cracking against the stone corridor, though there was no one to hear it.
You didn't want to know, he corrected. You saw someone quiet and decided that meant fragile. You never once looked closer.
I pressed my palm against the wall, grounding myself against the spinning sensation that had gripped me since the doors first opened. Every memory of the past year rearranged itself in my mind, twisting into something I no longer recognized.
The girl healed slower than the others during training—not because she was weak, but because she was suppressing power the rest of them could not have imagined.