Chapter 0645

I stare at my name's spot on the list, alone under Redman Blythe's, completely shocked, as our entire table erupts in protest - just like every other table in the breakfast hall. "Jacks!" I hiss, turning to him. "You didn't pick me!?"

"Of course I picked you, Ariel," he snarls, his voice low, leaning close. "I made deep cuts across my entire draft lift - and Rafe didn't try to draft you at all, to give me the best chance of -"

"Rafe!" I gasp, turning towards him, my eyes wide. "You didn't even pick me!?" My voice is squeaky with my betrayal.

"Don't even start with me, Ari," Rafe snarls, holding a hand out towards me with a single finger held up. "It was part of the plan."

"The plan that went wrong," Jesse growls, turning to glare at Rafe. "Seriously, what kind of shit plan was it that it ended up with Ari completey unprotected by any of us -"

Rafe and Jesse begin to bicker, their words getting lost in the noise of the room.

Ben glances at me, anxious, as Luca comes around to my other side. "There has to be something we can do," Ben says, turning to look around at the chaos of the breakfast room. "Some sort of negotiation."

Everyone bursts out with ideas then going to the Captain to protest this, demanding a re-draft, offering Blythe a private trade, even pulling a Daphne and giving him some poisoned wine tonight to eliminate him completely from the Game. And as everyone spins out ideas I go very still, my breath coming short in my chest because...

Because as far as I've come in this Academy, and despite everything I have learned, I am definitely, definitely not ready to be alone in the woods with a stranger without any of my Alphas by my side.

- what on earth

like Wright - want me

says behind me. As one, each of my boys goes silent and turns towards that voice, snarls breaking from between their teeth. Slowly I

the Alphas all around me, smirking down at my face. "I'm excited to work with

him for a long moment, and then I

taking a step towards my Captain and making all of our heads turn to him. "It's not going

the book satchel stung at his side as he gives Rafe a pretty grin. "I didn't do

QUMS

he speaks, taking in the fact that he's tall and well-built, like most of the Warrior cadets atthis Academy.

power and magnetism but...

he's a very

have bigger things to worry about. "How the hell did you manage to get one Cadet on your team?" Jackson

at Jacks and taking a step back. "Give me some

the distance,

“I

that matters," he shots me a grin here, "because

drafted me? But - why?

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