SERAPHINA
“No…” I touched my long hair in a panic, shooting up from the ground in horror. I had to leave this room but if someone from the Academy saw me like this, my secret and disguise would be exposed. Still, I had no time to mourn that fact.
Clenching the red dress tightly in my hand, I hissed, “I can’t let that happen.”
I could feel my strength returning, Phina healing me faster than ever before. I began to slip into the red dress. It was long, but slit high along both legs, with a daringly low cut in the front, and an open back that was almost entirely bare. It barely covered what it needed to but I had no other choice. I swiftly wrapped it around my body, tying it snugly at the waist. My fingers worked fast, shoving my hair into a messy knot, ignoring the rebellious strands that refused to stay tucked away.
Then I stormed into the corridor and stopped, stunned by the chaos.
Down the hallway, a storm of violence erupted. Alpha Jude’s wolf tore through the rogues like a phantorn possessed, blood streaking his fur like war paint. Better still he wasn’t alone. Beside him moved a beautiful white wolf,Grace. She matched him blow for blow, flame to flame. Behind them was a legion of wolves, more than thirty, all charging forward.
Phina stirred inside me, recognizing them instantly.
“They’re Cassius, Reed, and the other Alphas from Lupine Academy.”
They weren’t fighting for the trial anymore. They were fighting for what was right.
I turned toward the rest of the hallway, which reeked of rot, blood, and hopelessness. I marched down it, banging hard on every door. “Come out! We’re getting out of here!”
One by one, the she–wolves emerged. Some trembling. Some bruised. All with haunted, hollow eyes, startled to see me standing there.
“What’s going on?” one of them asked, her voice laced with fear.
“Gather all the she–wolves you can find,” I barked, “Everyone. Now! You’re all leaving this place!”
Silence fell. Followed by a ripple of disbelief. But after a moment, desperation sparked into motion. A few she–wolves shakily ran off, but with determination, to wake the others.
Within minutes, they gathered in the corridor frightened, wide–eyed, some barely clothed.
“We need to leave,” I said, my voice hard as steel. “Quickly, before anyone comes.”
They recoiled as if I had struck them.
“W…What? I can’t…I absolutely can’t…” a she–wolf broke into sobs.
“They’ll catch us,” another whimpered, eyes wide with terror.
“Believe in yourself!” I stepped forward, heart pounding but voice steady. I understood where their fear came from. “I’ll help you. We will escape this hell. You will-”
“You don’t understand!” a she–wolf jerked her hand out of mine, tears streaking down her bruised face. “I tried to run once and they punished me by letting a group of rogues rape me for an entire week.”
I froze in place. My breath caught.
“They’ll kill us,” another cried, “There’s no escape from here.”
“We’re already ruined. We’re nothing now.”
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Chapter 118 No Longer Broken
Their voices echoed in the narrow hallway. Their fear gripped me like chains. For a split second, the memory of that foul touch on my skin returned, vivid and vile. That moment where I lost control. Where I questioned what it meant to be a woman.
All my life, I chased a throne. I wore my Alpha blood like a crown. I’d been so proud, so determined to outshine my father’s chosen heir that I never once questioned the world beyond his protection.
For women, life wasn’t a title. It was a
“I know the kind of hell you’ve lived through. I truly do. But if you believe you’re already ruined…” My gaze swept over them, voice rising with every word, “Then what exactly are you still afraid of?”
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