CADEN He was good at it. Always had been. Avoiding someone at Vordrak should have been easy. Sixty students, multiple training blocks, staggered meal times, and enough physical space that two people could go days without crossing paths if they were deliberate about it. The problem was his wolf always knew exactly where Ash was. Didn't matter which side of the campus he was on. Didn't matter if there were forty other bodies between them in the meal hall or the training ground. His wolf tracked him the way a compass tracks north. Quietly. Constantly. Without being asked. So avoiding him took actual work. Monday he switched his morning run to the west grounds. Took his meals early, before the main intake. Stayed in Drax's office after sessions to review training records he didn't need t

