The Lycan Prince’s Wolfless Slave (Academy Romance) novel Chapter 128

Chapter 128

After a while, I notice one other person missing.

“Wait…What about Erika?” I ask, pulling back, “Have you seen her? Has she come out yet?”

The smiles on their faces falter. They look toward the exit ofthe hall. Just then, Erika walks out. My heart sinks as I notice her countenance. Her sh are slumped, and she isn’t carrying a blue card. She looks devastated.

“Oh no,” I whisper. “Did she fail again?”

We all stand up and approach her. I reach out to hug her, my heart breaking for her. “Erika? Are you okay? What happened?

Erika stops. She looks up at me. Her eyes aren’t sad. They are burning with pure hatred.

Before I can say anything else, she reaches into her pocket and pulls out a crumpled piece of paper. She slams it on my chest, pushing me back.

“You selfish, pretending bitch!” she yells.

I stumble back, shocked. “Eri? What are you talking about?”

“I would have passed!” she screams, her voice cracking. “I would have passed that second test if you had just picked Amara or Isolde to enter the pit! But no

You had to pick yourself like some self–righteous goddess!”

I look at her, my mouth hanging open. “What do you mean? How do you know what I picked?”

“Because that was my test too!” Erika says, tears streaming down her face. “I had to choose who to sacrifice. And I picked you, Lyra! I sacrificed you so i could stay in this academy! I did what I had to do to survive!”

She steps closer, her face contorted with rage. “I chose you, but I failed. I failed because you picked yourself and not someone else. You cursed me! You made me fail because you wanted to look like a hero!”

I stare at her in silence. My heart feels like it’s been ripped out of my chest. Erika picked me. “You… you sacrificed me?” I whisper.

“Yes!” she shrieks. “And I’d do it again! But now I’m out. I’m finished. And it’s all your fault.

“Did you even think things through?” I ask Erika. The words come out in a broken whisper, barely audible over the noise of the other students.

Erika doesn’t even look away. She stares at me with cold anger, as if she doesn’t feel a single shred of guilt for her choice. “Yes!” she snaps. “What did you expect, Lyra? Did you think I was going to throw away my entire future for you?”

The air feels thin. I can’t breathe. “Why?” I ask, my voice trembling “I thought we were friends, Enka: I thought we were sister

Erika lets out a harsh laugh. “Prighds? L–failed Lyeat. And if you want to know why I did it, it’s for the same reason that I set you up to be caus Prince on the night of the ted moon!”

Everything aresind us seems to freeze. The world goes silent Amern and holde both gasp, their bodies stiftering beside me

How could you?!* Amata explodes, her voice hour with shank. You were the one who tabl her to go to the garden You betrayed her for Nine?

12:47 pm PP

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Chapter 128-

“Thad to! Erika shrieks, her face contorting. “I had no choice! Rima promised me I would pass my assessments if I did it. She promised me I wou failure anymore!”

She points a shaky finger at me, her eyes filled with a terrifying level of venom. “It’s all your fault, Lyra! Everything was fine until you showed up. here and tried to steal the Prince from his chosen mate. You made yourself a target. Princess Rina only made me set you up because you wouldn’t s your place!”

I stare at her as tears stream down my face. The betrayal is heavy that it feels like it’s crushing ray chest. Wyndra had tried to warn me. She had Erika wasn’t what she seemed, and I had ignored her. I had defended Erika. How could I have been such a fool?

“I don’t blame you, Erika,” I say, my voice quiet and steady despite the tears. “I actually blame myself. I had no idea this is what you thought of me. I genuinely loved you. I would have died for you in that pit.”

Erika’s expression softens for a second, but then it hardens again. She reaches out, grabbing my hand, in a desperate and tight grip.

“If you actually love me, Lyra, then you have to do something,” she says, her voice trembling. “I’m going to be expelled. My parents, my pack… they’ll ki me if I go back as a failure. You have to talk to Prince Kai.”

I blink, confused. “What?”

“He’lf listen to you!” Erika says, holding me tighter. “I see the way he looks at you. If you tell him to talk to the Principal, he’ll stop the expulsion. He’ll fix

it for me. Please, Lyra! Please don’t let me be humiliated! Help me!”

I stare at her in complete shock. The girl who just admitted to trying to get me in trouble is now begging me for a favor. I slowly pull my hand out of her

grip, feeling a coldness settle over me.

“Why would you think I can influence the Lycan Prince like that?” I ask. “He’s my master, Erika. I’m a slave.”

“Oh, stop it!” Erika yells. “Of course you can! Isn’t that how he got you enrolled here even though you’re wolfless? Is that not how you’ve been passing these tests? Everyone knows Prince Kai is rigging it for you! Or do you want to deny that you don’t have a wolf?”

The students around us start to murmur. Her voice is so loud that people are stopping to watch. I feel my blood begin to boil. I’ve worked so hard. I faced my nightmares and jumped into a bottomless pit, and she wants to claim it was all handed to me??

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