Chapter 93 Under the Surface
Nira’s POV:
When I first saw her, I paused without meaning to.
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Everything about her made it obvious she wasn’t just anyone. The way she dressed, the quiet confidence in how she carried herself, even the faint, unmistakable scent of a high–ranking pure–blood wolf all pointed to the same conclusion before she even spoke.
She was beautiful, but not in a soft or approachable way. There was something sharp about her, something deliberate, like she was used to being noticed and didn’t care whether people liked what they saw.
“I’m Colette,” she said, her gaze brushing over me with open disapproval before settling into a slight frown. “Did you do something to Valerie?”
It took me a moment, but then I remembered exactly who she was. Colette Soren, one of the core members of the Soren family, and someone who had also been listed for the Flores family banquet this year.
I didn’t know what she wanted from me, so I didn’t bother overthinking it. “Yeah, I guess you could say that.”
The answer clearly didn’t sit well with her. Her expression tightened, and whatever patience she had left seemed to disappear on the spot.
“You really don’t understand your situation, do you?” she said, her voice turning colder. “You’re barely even part of the Soren family, just a forgotten branch nobody cares about. Even if you placed first in the special evaluation, it doesn’t change anything.”
She let out a quiet, dismissive breath before continuing, her tone sharpening further.
“To the Flores family, someone like you doesn’t even register. No wolf spirit, no status, no protection. If they wanted you gone, it wouldn’t take more effort than stepping on an ant.”
Her eyes lingered on me for a second longer, as if waiting for that to land, before she added with clear disdain, “And don’t tell me you think the Sorens would step in for you. That’s not confidence, that’s just stupid.”
I didn’t argue.
There wasn’t much point, because what she said wasn’t wrong.
But it also had nothing to do with me.
I had never expected anything from the Soren family, and more importantly, I had never needed to.
The faint curve of my lips must have given something away, because her irritation became obvious almost immediately. She stiffened slightly, her eyes narrowing as a trace of her wolf instincts slipped through the surface.
“I’m warning you,” she said, her voice dropping, each word more pointed than the last. “Stop drawing attention to yourself and keep your head down.”
She turned as if the conversation was already over, but before she walked away, she paused just long enough to throw one last line
over her shoulder.
“Valerie’s been asking about you all over campus. If I were you, I’d start being careful.”
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Chapter 93 Under the Surface
I watched her leave, my gaze lingering for a moment as I considered what she had just told me.
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From everything I knew, Colette might belong to the core Soren family on paper, but in reality, she had always stayed on the edges of it, unnoticed and uninvolved, the kind of person most people would overlook without a second thought.
And yet, she knew this.
If she hadn’t said anything, I wouldn’t have realized Valerie had already started moving behind the scenes at school.
That alone made things more interesting than they had been in a while.
For the first time in days, I felt a flicker of genuine curiosity about what Valerie was planning, and what kind of trouble she thought she could stir up.
For a short while, though, nothing happened.
Valerie didn’t show up again, and my life on campus settled into an unexpected stretch of quiet, the kind that almost felt out of place given everything that had been building.
That calm didn’t last.
A few days later, everything unraveled at once.
It started with the release of the freshman computer science unit test results. The department had decided to rank every student to get a clearer picture of overall performance, which was already enough to draw attention, but no one expected what happened
next.
The moment the results went live, the system nearly crashed from the number of people trying to access it. When it finally stabilized and refreshed, the rankings appeared, and at the very top of the list, my name stood there in a way no one could ignore.
Not just first place.
A perfect score.
The reaction was immediate and explosive.
There was no scenario where something like that would be accepted quietly, especially not under my name.
Within minutes, the school forum spiraled out of control.
“She didn’t even show up for the test. This is obviously rigged.”
The first post came from an anonymous account, complete with what they claimed was proof that I hadn’t been in the exam room that day.
That was all it took to set everything off.
“A nobody with no wolf spirit gets into Howard Academy through Kade and suddenly scores a perfect first? Who are you trying to
fool?”
“Let me guess, pulled strings again and had the score changed.”
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