Defiant Princess: A Dark Shifter Romance (Lost Moon University Book 2) by Bella Jacobs

Author:Bella Jacobs [Jacobs, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Self Taught Ninja
Published: 2023-04-20T18:30:00+00:00

ten

JULIET

I spend the welcome luau, taking the measure of every wolf and big cat I meet during the mixer games, trying to see if they think terrorizing Variants is their birthright from looking in their eyes.

I do a pretty good job—or they do a pretty bad job of hiding their contempt—but the situation doesn’t seem to be as dire as I imagined before I met the rest of the incoming class.

Yes, a good chunk of the wolves are jerks, but I’d say it’s a smaller percentage than what Ford was estimating, and most of the big cats are cool. I even made a new friend in a tiger who also plans on joining the military school.

Her big sister is already a junior in the program and says it’s about so much more than physical fitness, weapons training, or battle strategy. They also take courses in leadership, economics, sociology, and other things that play into shifter conflicts across the globe, all of which would be good things for Zion’s future Alpha to know more about. I want to understand the challenges my people are facing in all aspects of their lives. It seems like the major will actually be a perfect fit.

Now, I just need to get in…

The first step is getting this implant out and accessing my shifted form. I’m not naïve enough to think I’ll gain full control before the trials start. But if I can use my phoenix to help me in any way at all, I’ll be better off than I am now.

Layla, Diana, and I head back to our dorm after the mixer, chatting the entire way about the people we met and our hopes for the next two weeks. The younger girls seem more optimistic, too, and the mood only lightens further as we join the rest of the dorm on the roof to make s’mores under golden lights the counselors have strung overhead. One of them plays DJ, we gorge on the candy bar set up in the corner, and everyone dances until midnight.

By the time the last few stragglers head to bed, heeding Catherine’s warning that orientation classes start bright and early tomorrow morning, it’s nearly one.

I linger, helping clean up the paper cups and plates littered around the edge of the roof, until just Catherine, Alexander, and my roomies remain. Once Catherine locks the roof entrance after the last partygoer, she turns back to me with an easy smile. “Okay, let’s do this and get you all to bed before too late.”

With a bracing breath, I sit down across from her at a small table she’s covered with a clean towel and hold out my arm. She swabs my wrist with alcohol-soaked gauze, does the same to her hands, then pulls on a pair of latex gloves. Then, using a powerful magnet, she draws the implant close to the surface of my skin.

The sight of the small gray circle lurking just a hair’s breadth from a pulsing blue vein makes my stomach flip.

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