People who shine always attract attention.
Good-looking. Top grades. A powerful family background. A transfer student.
Those labels made Ethan the center of attention at school.
Everyone said he wore a different outfit every day.
His shoes were never the same pair twice, and every single pair cost a ridiculous amount of money.
They said he barely listened in class yet still got perfect scores because he was a natural-born Alpha, while someone like Lyra, a Beta, could only rely on hard work.
They said he and the rest of us belonged to completely different worlds.
To make one person stand out, people always needed someone else as a contrast.
That person became me.
In their mouths, Ethan and I became a comparison of heaven and earth.
One was a poor Beta who clawed her way through li
