Chapter 87 Deja Vu

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Alpha Gideon was silent over my request for a long time as if thinking something over before he said, “You should be aware that changing rooms is not possible, bAlpha /bSeth. It is only possible if you be a member of the hierarchy one day.

I pursed my lips harder. In the corner of my heart, I had a feeling he was going to refuse. The rules were enforced equally for everyone, only winning trials was the way to achieve such things in Lupine Academy. “I understand,” I murmured, turning to leave.

Just as I took two steps away, he stated, “I don’t actually know your real reason for such a request, Alpha Seth but stop running.

I turned to o him in surprise. How did he bknow /bI wanted to run from that room?

I secretly clenched my pa

bpants /bat my side and asked, “Is it not wise to run instead of being hurt?”

Alpha Gideon’s gaze pinned me in ce.

“Wolves do not avoid pain,” he said, his voice like steel wrapped in shadow. “They endure it. Learn from it.Then when the timees..they rise above it.”

iif /ithe

His eyes narrowed slightly, as

they could see right through bmy /bskin down to the truth I was hiding-

“Running may keep you safe, Alpha Seth. But have you thought about bhow /blong you will run? At some point, byou /bwill have to face it and then ept it.”

The words settled in my chest like a bslow /bburn.

I couldn’t speak. Not because I disagreed-

But because part of me…knew he was right.

Alpha Ryker Wraithe

His name had echoed through the Academy bhalls /bband /bblingered /bon everyone’s lips bsince /bthe moment he arrived. Not just because of his unnerving handsomeness or his wildcard entry that shook thepetition. No, it was more than that. It was the way he moved like a storm, sat like a predator, and stared at people as if they were nothing more than ants beneath his boots. Unworthy. Insignificant. bInvisible/b.

bThat /bwas Alpha Ryker Wraithe.

A bman /bwhose silent, unwavering gaze had rattled even me.

The Alphas here were already struggling to ept bhis /bsudden binclusion/b, bespecially /bafter bso /bmany had fallen during the previous brutal trials. He hadn’t just joined the Supreme Alpha race..he bdominated /bit. Rising to the top of the bhierarchy /bbin /bba /bblink, without shedding a single drop of bsweat /bin the Academy like the rest bof /bbus/b. While others bled, wed, band /bfought to earn their ranks, Ryker bcarved /bbhis /bce effortlessly, bthrough /bsheer destruction

Yet, no one dared to question him

Herause Ryker Wraithe bwasn’t /bjust a wildcard

He was the hunter. The our who clinunated live bpowerful /bAlphas during the overnight survival trial. Five different forests. Five separate kills. He didn’t want for the morning bell, he went from one Alpha to the next, forest after forest, like death itself was bored and hooking for sport

For the past few days he had been the center of attention, the storm around which everyone orbited. Initially, I weed it With Hyker around, attracting all the attention no case noticed me Reed and Cassius had gone quiet since ourst encounter, clearly distracted Or maybe they were tumted by Ryker’s overwhelmung presence.

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I was wrong

I currently found myself bstuck /bbetween Roman and Ryker in the library, two dominant forces seated on either bside /bof me, exuding enough tension to make the air itself feel suffocating. Their auras were so heavy that every Alpha present pretended not to notice the silent bwar /bcrackling between them.

I tightened bmy /bgrip on the book in bmy hands/b, internally cursing.

How the hell did I end up between these btwo/b?

They didn’t even try to hide their mutual hatred, not since the moment their eyes shed during Ryker’s introduction. That moment alone bhad /bbeen enough to confirm it: these two despised each other to the bone.

As far as I could recall, bwhen /bwe were summoned to the libraryb, /bI had quietly taken a seat at the back, wondering why there was a pen and a nk sheet of paper ced bin /bfront of me. I hadn’t paid much attention to the desk beside mine, buntil /bthe front doors opened band /bRyker entered…

Then, the back doors openedb. /b

bRonan /bwalked in.

The both of them, without hesitation, took the empty seats on either side of me.

bOnly /bthen did I notice the extra pens and papers that had been bid /bout. Like this seating arrangement had been nned.

nned for chaos.

On my left was Ryker, who hadn’t stopped staring at me since the day he arrived.

On my right was Ronan, whose aura had turned razor–sharp ever since he noticed Ryker’s gaze never wavered from me.

And bi /b

I was caught in the middle.

Between two Alphas who looked blike /bthey were ready to tear each other apart.

In the past few days of brutal training on the Academy grounds, both Ryker and Ronan had proven themselves to be bequally /bformidable. Whether it was physical challenges orbat drills, they matched each other blow for blow, never letting the other gam an inch.

bOne /bbparticrly /bdisturbing test, ba /bsupposedly harmless underground survival challenge meant more for amusement than evaluation, involved dropping the participants into a manhole–like pit to see who could endure bthe /blongest. Most of us apped out within a few hours, myself included, unable to bear the ustrophobic feeling andck of oxygen. It bwasn’t /beven. an official trial. Yet Ryker and Ronan refused to yield.

They remained down there for over eighteen hours, leaving the entire Academy in stunned silence. Fear began to bripple /bthrough the branks /bbwhen /bit became bclear /bneither of them bwould /bbe /bbout /bvoluntarily. In the end, the Alpha instructors bhad /bto intervene, dering the challenge bover /band calling it a tie, again.

It was a verdict both Ronan and Ryker seemed unwilling to ept.

Wispers circted like bwildfire /bsome believed the tension stemmed from the bovernight /bbsurvival /btrial, bhow /bRyker had

iminated multiple Alphas but failed to take down Ronan. Others spected it was due to bRyker /bhaving taken Ronan’s ce in the luerarchyb, /ba brank /bno one else bhad /bdared dream of bsurpassing /bEither way, one thing bwas /bcertain

These two Alphas loathed each other with a depth that went far beyond brivalry /b

However, deep in my heart. I had a sinking feeling that the breal /breason behind their hatred was me.

Since that day when Ronan had kissed me. I had been avoiding bhim /bnevermind making eye contact Even though the entire time I felt his disapproving gaze burning me. Not that Ryker had been any different. I had just been living ou pins and

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Right now | was unable to endure the weight of their gates any longer. I decided to change seats but there were a blimited /bnumer of seats in the library as it some counted and was deliberate about it. But there were still two empty seats right

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across mine, just as I thought about moving into one of them, two figures appeared and sat in them one by one

Finn and Asher.

I gasped as my eyes met with theirs. So they were their seats?

Now I was surrounded by all of them.

bWhat /bwas going on here: Why was this giving me deja bvu/bb? /b

bSend /bGifts

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