After a long and exhausting day, I finally made my way home, my backpack slung over my left shoulder. The campus was alive with students, chatting in small clusters, laughing and planning their next moves. To an ordinary human, it was a completely normal scene—but for someone like me, it was noticeably different. Wolves were conspicuously absent. The campus seemed dominated entirely by vampires and humans, and the usual presence of my kind had mysteriously vanished.
The memory of the locker area incident kept replaying in my mind. I didn’t want to dwell on it, but I couldn’t stop thinking about what had happened earlier. When Donnie had come, he had forcefully pulled Hailey away from Alpha Dwight, and they had hurried out without a second glance at me. Not a single one of them had shown u
