Chapter 91

• Baron Thorn — the man who once pretended to be an ordinary teacher at our academy, the man Ayla trusted, the man my brother and I once thought was harmless — murdered Alpha Storm.
• And somehow, I was expected to stand here and breathe the same air as him.
• Up close, he wasn’t anything like the calm, responsible mentor he pretended to be at Hollow Ridge High. He was charming in that corrupted way, smiling too easily, eyes too bright, like everything was a joke only he understood.