TRISTAN
We meet with my father after dinner.
“Well, President Spader was displeased to hear that his nephew has been breaking pack and University law,” he begins. “As you said, hurting a human is grounds for expulsion, but hurting a pack member…as restitution, Spader will fight any representative of ours in the campus fighting ring, in human form only.”
“To the death?” I ask.
“No, the university won't allow it. However, if he loses, Spader will be expelled and exiled. He won't be returning to Tidepool Cove, either.”
“And if I lose?”
“He will be expelled but not exiled, and can return in a year.”
“Tris, no, you can't do this. None of you can do this. You can’t get hurt for me,” Billie says.
I cup her face in my hands. “My darling, deluded angel, you don’t get a say.”
In our treatie
