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Alpine Crescent Academy

After losing her parents, a date with her boyfriend goes terribly wrong when she finds her boyfriend cheating on her with a werewolf. He forces a bite on her, and 18-year old Layla Gibbous is forcefully removed from everything she once held dear and is tossed into a new life at a school for the wolves of the night, Alpine Crescent Academy. As she learns more about her new abilities, she feels like she is being watched from the shadows. When she keeps running into a mysterious and devilishly handsome man comes on campus, Layla can't help but get close to him. If he is the one in the shadows - is he here to protect her or hurt her? At the academy, she is taught more about the history and the two warring factions of wolves: Nestati and Vosak. Can she stay out of the fight? Or is something more at work here, like fate?

book_neurosis · Fantasy
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134 Chs

The past

[Morwenna POV]

- 18 years ago -

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I watch as my brother weeps for the daughter he will never know. In one arm he holds the bundle of cloth that is swathed around my precious niece, and his other arm is wrapped around the child's mother who is still weak from childbirth.

I have only met Gwen once before this, though it was as somber of a moment as tonight. It was the night they told me that she was pregnant.

"Had I not heard it and seen it with my own eyes, I would doubt it still, but I understand now that this is what must be done," my voice carries over their silent sobs and even though I know they heard me, they don't respond. 

Not that I expected anything different. There is not much left to be said. 

"I tried," I couldn't help but say those two words again. Even though I have said them many times before.