KAI POV
I blinked once. Twice. Let the silence stretch, just long enough for the weight of it to settle over the class like smoke.
Then I smiled.
That slow, dangerous, eat-s**t-and-choke-on-it kind of smile.
“If they’re worried about the wolf playing them both,” I said, letting my voice stay light but cold, “then maybe the problem isn’t the wolf. Maybe it’s that they were dumb enough to get played.”
A murmur passed through the classroom, low and shocked.
Professor Garrett didn’t stop me. Of course he didn’t. He lived for this.
“So what’s stopping them from eliminating him?” I asked, c*****g my head like I was genuinely curious. “Well, for starters, maybe they should’ve outsmarted him. Caught the game before it began.”
Then I leaned back slightly, eyes scanning lazily between Dalto
