LEAH’S POV
"Willow was given a seat here on a special recommendation by my father!" Asher boasts, staring me down with cruel eyes. "Alpha Everest signed her papers himself because she has actual merit and talent! What do you have? You ran away like a coward because you could not handle standing in Willow's shadow!"
Asher’s words land like a bomb in the room.
For this brief moment, I choose to stop pretending to be the obedient, desperate girl they remember.
I know I cannot openly antagonize Asher here. He is still the son of the Alpha of Harvest Moon, an heir to one of the four great packs. In the pack territory, they could not kill me openly because it would look bad to the council.
But here at Eclipse Academy, surrounded by wild wolves and royal heirs, my life holds very little v
