AVELORA I stopped talking to him, that was the only thing that gave me a shred of control. I couldn't even look at him without seeing how he had lied to me. Part of me felt like I was overreacting. Who would want me as a mate? He did the right thing. But maybe because I had grown to like him, it made it hard for me to just accept it. "I am training alone," I had told him flatly back at the dorms, ignoring the low growl that vibrated from his chest. Which is exactly how I ended up back in the academy’s training room at two in the morning, my muscles screaming in protest as I swung a weighted training staff against a sriking post. Crack, crack The whole room echoed from the constant pummelling I was doing to the poor training bag. My thighs were still tender from Khyrix's brutal dum

