SERAPHINA
My heart plummeted into my stomach.
Impossible. How could Asher know I was a woman? If he truly knew, the entire Academy would have known by now and I’d be expelled without hesitation. No, there was no way. He couldn’t know.
Only that’s when I felt it. The shift.
The air around us thickened, heavy, unnatural. Silence pressed against my ears, suffocating. I didn’t dare move, but my eyes darted across the room. The crowd of Alphas had already settled into their seats, and in two different corners of the library sat Ryker and Ronan motionless as statues, their gazes locked on me and Asher.
Ronan’s eyes were sharp as blades, while Ryker’s blank stare carried the eerie calm of a storm just before it broke. Even Finn, who had entered a bit late, was watching with an unreadable ex
