Three months had passed since Rai stepped into the academy, and he had grown accustomed to the brutal routine. Days were filled with relentless training, combat drills, and mind-numbing lectures about pack hierarchy and warfare. The academy had become a battlefield of dominance where only the strong survived.
Rai had learned how to navigate through it all—moving unnoticed, blending in, keeping his head down. To everyone, he was just another recruit. Another boy fighting to make it to the top.
But she knew better.
She wasn’t like them. She wasn’t supposed to be here.
And yet, no matter how much she tried to stay invisible, one person always noticed her.
Khael.
She wasn’t sure when it started, but she had begun to feel it—the weight of his gaze on her, the way he watched her, silently
