THE WOLF WHO SKATED INTO MY HEART
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"You deserve better than a man who cheats on half the school and raises his hand when you ask a simple question."
I hated Wren for saying that. I hated him more for being right.
I'm Vera Cole, twenty-two, final year communications student at Mapleton University. Covering the hockey team is my campus press assignment — sharp questions, match reports, player interviews I sit through with a smile even when the locker room energy tries to swallow me whole. I spent a year loving someone who needed me small to feel big. Then Wren Nico, the new Beta, the transfer nobody asked for, arrived mid-semester and irritated me from the first collision in the hallway to the last useless interview answer. Then Jace hit me and Wren was simply there, quiet and certain, stepping between me and the worst moment of my year like he had already decided I was his to protect.
I did not ask for that. I did not want it. And yet here I am, completely unable to pretend that it meant nothing.
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Vera's POV
I woke up with swollen eyes and a completely clear head.
No confusion, no second guessing, none of the heaviness I usually carried into mornings after a hard night, just stillness.
The kind that settles in after everything has already been decided and there is nothing l……
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