She was never supposed to matter. A scholarship girl in an academy built for heirs. A nameless shadow in Blackridge Academy where power, wealth, and bloodlines decide everything. Avery Laine learned early how to stay quiet, how to smile when mocked, and how to survive in a world that had already decided she was nothing more than a mistake they tolerated. Until the day she snapped. One moment of rage in a dark alley was enough to change everything. A boy broken at her feet. A secret exposed. And something inside her that should not exist. Something inhuman. Then the crown prince saw her. The prince of the werewolf world. Cold. Untouchable. Dangerous in a way even silence feared. He should have exposed her. He should have erased her the moment he sensed what she was. Instead He claimed her