My words were final. I had torn their pathetic masks to shreds.But those three men still clung to my life, refusing to leave.Having failed to get a rise out of me, Morgana directed her venom elsewhere.Soon, rumors spread through the Southern Alliance community. Lily was a “mutt of impure blood.” I was a “shameless lone wolf who slept her way to the top.”The neighbors who used to smile at me now avoided my gaze.I was so tired. Tired of the drama. Tired of them. It was time to leave.As I was packing, the old Alpha of the Crimson Maple pack contacted me.He'd heard about my work with unstable cubs. He offered me a job: head instructor at a new academy on the Storm Coast.It was a school for “problem” cubs—those whose bloodlines were too powerful or too mixed to be accepted by ordinary packs.I accepted without hesitation.The day before I left, a light rain began to fall.Sterling found me.He wasn't an Alpha giving orders anymore. He carefully held out a heavy box.It was filled wi
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