Rejected: The Alpha's Fatal Mistake
Kade
By the third week, Kade had a system. He ate exactly enough to keep his wolf from noticing, trained hard enough in the mornings that nobody questioned why he slept badly, and kept his study door closed after dark, when the ache behind his sternum liked to remind him it was still there, low and constant, like a held breath his body refused to release.
By the sixth week, the system had started failing him in small, specific ways.