JASON I hissed out a curse and pointed at them. “Wait. Don’t move.” I stormed back inside, grabbed jeans, a shirt, my boots, pulled them on like armor, heart still racing, head spinning. They used my name. Adonis Athera. I looked in the mirror and saw him staring back. The Alpha Breaker. I slammed the door shut behind me, walked back into the hall, fists clenched. “Where’s the car?” They nodded toward the lot. “Waiting at the gate.” “Well, I’m not riding in it.” “You have to, it’s protocol—” “You want me to come, I follow you on my bike. Or I don’t come at all.” They hesitated. I raised a brow. Dared them to argue. They didn’t. The air outside felt hotter and thicker. I stormed across the quad, past students still yawning into their coffee cups and tossing each other half-dead mo

