Ash's POV
I sat there frozen in my seat long after the professor's voice faded into background noise, the lecture hall blurring around me as my mind looped over and over on the same impossible question, what the hell was Dale doing here, he wasn't even part of the northern tribe, he was alpha in training for that tiny pack tucked in the southern hills, the one barely big enough to claim territory without getting swallowed by rogues, and last I knew he'd married Jasmine.
Marked her under the moon like it was the happiest ending anyone could write, so why was he sitting at the far end of this classroom, golden hair catching the light like nothing had ever gone wrong in his life.
Nothing fit, no matter how I twisted the logic in my head, no explanation made sense, he had no ties to this
