BLOODBOUND: THE LAST MATE
HUMILIATION
Lena POV
I did not stop walking until I reached the far end of the hallway, where the noise of the classroom behind me became nothing more than a muffled echo.
My breath came faster than it should have, and my hands were trembling—not from fear, but from the force of emotions I had kept locked away for too long. The anger in my chest was hot, sharp, and alive, like a flame that had finally found oxygen.
For months, I had swallowed humiliation like bitter medicine. For months, I had been forced to smile politely while people stabbed me with their words. For months, I had been expected to accept my place at the bottom of the pack’s social hierarchy, as though rejection had stripped