KALENEveryone left behind a legacy – their mark on the world. Sometimes it created a positive and lasting change for all. Other times all it left behind was chaos and carnage.Fairytale books had distinct heroes and distinct villains. It was an either/or situation. Good or bad. Black or white. Was it that simple to categorize everyone? What if they did not fit into any one box because nobody was purely good or purely evil?I thought it was simple once upon a time until fate threw me a curveball that I was unable to dodge.My future had always been clear to me growing up. I would become the first female Alpha of the Dark Moon pack. It was something that I threw my entire focus into as I got older. Dad was an amazing Alpha, and I would be proud to be even half of what he was. My pack meant everything to me, and it was an honor that I would be able to pick up the mantle when he was ready to pass it to me.Part of me had assumed that my biggest hurdles in life would come from proving tha

KALEN‘C’mon, Alpha Kalen. We don’t want to be late,’ Nika chirped.‘Sure we do. School is vastly overrated. There’s no need to even go. We could easily pass every exit exam. Mom graduated when she was fourteen. There’s no reason why we have to finish out the next two years.’My wolf rolled her big golden eyes at me and stuck me with a no-nonsense look. Sometimes, sharing my mindspace with someone else royally sucked because nothing remained secret. She knew my emotions as well as my reasons.Something about today would set things in motion. What that was, I had absolutely no idea. It could be anything from crossing the street to meeting someone specific to insulting an idiot. There was no telling what it would be. I was absolutely fucked if it was the last one because too many idiots loved to voice their opinions of me and my position within a pack that was not even their own.I was wearing a pair of black ripped skinny jeans that was paired with a white lace V-neck short sleeved top

MADDOX It was really fucking ridiculous that I was forced to attend an academy this year. I would love nothing more than to tell my father to shove it up his ass and leave me the fuck alone, but I valued oxygen expanding my lungs a little too much for that. Why did I have to suffer through all of this fucking bullshit just because my old man had a vendetta? I was nothing more than his errand boy – a good soldier who was not meant to question his orders. The morning had been shaping up to be a complete letdown. Sure, there was a hot chick who practically offered herself up to me. I enjoyed my fair share of females, but I did not go for the desperate types. I craved a challenge, something to keep me intrigued. The hot chick that was wrapped around me had nothing on the green-eyed beauty that I had caught eyeing me. She was fucking fine in those clothes, but I bet she looked even better out of them and spread wide open for me. I wondered what her name was, but I was not about to ask

KALEN I tried to push Zion’s words out of my head for now because they could mean anything at all. We found Ava and Matteo by the bonfire. They were chatting away with some of their friends from the academy who lived on campus. Someone covered my eyes from behind. It was easy to guess who it was by scent alone. “I wonder who this could be,” I deadpanned. She just bounced around and gave me a big grin. Blakely was super gorgeous. She was the eldest triplet of Uncle Dante and Aunt Ziyah, Alpha and Luna of the Shadow Falls pack. She was a wolf/Fae hybrid and really fucking powerful on both accounts. Plus, she excelled in combat magic. Blakely was just as gorgeous as she was lethal. 5’9 with curves and muscles galore. Black hair with natural white highlights. Light blue eyes with amethyst specks in them. Her skin tone took after her Light Fae heritage with it being pale ivory with a dusting of shimmer, reminiscent of diamond powder, but hers was a bit more subtle. “Having fun?” she

KALEN Not surprisingly, Maddox did not approach me once school started. I figured that he had taken the not-so-subtle hint. I could not have been more wrong because he bombarded me when I got to the lunchroom and asked if we could go somewhere to talk privately after eye-fucking me. I told him, and I quote, my knee to your tiny dick should’ve been conversation enough. Zion had the forethought to make his way to me the moment that I had come through the door, so he threw his arm over me, and we walked away. Maddox growled either in anger, embarrassment, agitation, or he just thought he was a scary puppy. Any of those options would fit, especially the last one. I would not have minded speaking to him if he had not eye-fucked me then asked if we could go somewhere private to talk. Not after what happened at the party. Then Grant and Gabriel, the Alpha heirs of the Nightshade pack, came over and asked me to play along. All of us were close because our parents were, so we were essentia