CALEB’S POV
I stormed out of Crestwood’s main hall, my shoes slamming the pavement, my blood boiling. Sebastian f*****g Wolfe had done it again—stolen my moment, my spotlight, my chance to be something to her. I’d been the one to step in, to pull Isabella off the floor, to face down her asshole brothers and that lying ex, Jake. I’d been her savior, her knight in shining armor, and then Sebastian swooped in, his professor bullshit shutting everyone up, dragging her off to the principal’s office like he owned her.
Talon, snarled, pacing inside me, his rage a fire in my chest. I didn’t know why I cared so much—why Isabella’s tear-streaked face, her trembling hands, her sprained wrist made me want to rip through anyone who hurt her—but I did. And Sebastian, my lifelong nemesis, had taken th
