Rejected and Reborn: The Hockey Alpha's Regret

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onths

groaned as they swung open, letting in a

look at the students who immediately froze on the walkways, or the smartphones instantly being aimed at my face

a girl whispered, her phone

blood. What kind of dark

nd stares confirmed it. She claimed I once had a life here, but none of it meant anything to me. And

rd. Several elite wolves bared their teeth, their instinc

ssive, ancient presence shifted, stre

like a dormant glacier. Whatever weakne

ing important had happened there once, but it felt

o be Zephyron behind me. He looked broken; his broad shoulders hunched, his grey eyes bloodshot and heavily sunken. He looked

behind him, her beautiful face twisted into a permanent line of irritation, compl

e training arena entrance, cutting t

nto the snow, led by a towering figure who

s Kai

e one she seemed oddly determined to introduce me to. He walked with the lethal grace of an apex predator, his icy blue eyes

ngerous spark of intrigue lig

o the combat ring immediately!" the Headmistr

e iron railings of the outdoor training grid to s

dding my coat. The training instructor, a scarred al

avy, silver-plated measuring pillar into the dirt. "Channel your

over the rails, their lips curved into ugly, expectant sm

sed m

I th

lasted outward from my body. The suffocating density of the power slammed into the iron railings, bending

s the pressure forced several weaker wolves str

, his face completely pale with

t threatened to crack the concrete foundations of the arena

for one

flared to life, a deep midnight blue that perfectly matched the chill of my own. He walked straight

touched mine, Nyra

ravelly baritone that held a dark vein of amusement. "You'

the dark corners of my mind with a satisfied purr. I looked up into Kai's i

moothly, stepping

a second longer before he turned and walked toward the loc

ollect my things, the entire student bod

rowd parted

, ragged, and completely frantic. Zephyron stopped abruptly five feet away from me, his expression collapsing into visible s

voice cracking completely as

in the eye, my dark

e, do I k