No Alpha But Myself
If I’d stayed quiet, he would’ve kept pretending.
You were never the choice, Vera, Vespa murmured. Only the placeholder.
A few seconds passed. His voice softened. He realized, maybe, that he’d gone too far.
But I was already looking at the flight details my classmate had sent me.
“Cain,” I said quietly. “We’re done.”
“What?”
“I’m not your shield anymore. Or a substitute.”
I ended the call before he could say anything else.
I wasn’t a pawn in their polished little story. I was a wolf—wounded, yes. But no longer theirs.