No.
He was looking.
Right into me.
Through me.
Right into Summer.
And that’s when I felt it-
Her control snapped.
Just a little.
Just enough.
And she surged.
Golden. Furious. Electric.
My skin buzzed. The lights overhead flickered. My bones lit up with electric current.
His eyes widened.
Because he knew.
He fucking knew.
He saw the glow. Not from rage. Not from bloodlust.
From power.
Golden Wolf power.
A secret I’d buried so deep it had teeth marks in it.
“Wait-” he breathed, his voice nothing but air and disbelief.
He didn’t get to finish.
I flipped.
Lightning roared through my bloodstream. My free hand pressed to his chest-and I let it spark.
A pulse. Controlled. Just enough. But enough.
He jolted.
His body arched with the shock.
And then he was on the mat, flat, arms jerking, mouth slack.
I straddled him, every cell in my body humming with the afterglow.
Summer was growling in my chest, wild and protective and ready to kill. Energy danced across my fingertips, static crackling like a storm trapped inside my skin. My wolf wanted blood. My instincts wanted silence. My heart-my heart wanted to protect.
I barely registered the thunder of footsteps before Dalton and Derrick were there-one on each side of me, already tearing into him like they’d felt my pulse drop from across the room.
Dalton on my right – jaw locked, a live wire of fury. Sparks snapped along his arms, crawling down his veins like lightning. He grabbed Leo’s shoulders and slammed him back into the mat.
Electricity sparked at his fingertips like static looking for blood.
Derrick on my left, -cooler, quieter, but ten times more lethal. He kneeled on the mat, so close to Leo I was sure he could feel his breath on his neck. Then he wrapped His hand around Leo’s throat. Not enough to choke. Just enough to promise it. His dark eyes were narrowed, mouth curved in a dangerous half-smile that didn’t reach his eyes.
“Move again,” Derrick snarled, voice a low rumble that could’ve cut through steel, “and I’ll break your goddamn jaw.”
Alpha Leo coughed. Tried to speak. “It’s a misunderstanding-“
“Bullshit,” Dalton snapped. “You hit her. You pinned her.”
“I didn’t know-“
“You didn’t know?” Derrick repeated, tone laced with venom. He leaned in, voice like ice over fire. “Didn’t know she was what? A student? A rookie? A threat you couldn’t handle with your fists, so you threw your weight around like some drunk pack enforcer?”
Leo struggled beneath us. Pathetic. Frantic. “I didn’t know he was her,” he hissed. “I didn’t know he was a golden wolf.”
“You knew enough to go for her ribs. Her shoulder.” Dalton’s voice was pure static now, vibrating the air. “You’re trained. You pulled punches, but not enough. You enjoyed it. I saw it in your eyes.”
“I didn’t!” Leo barked, trying to sit up. He barely got an inch before Derrick shoved him back down with one hand. Effortless.
“I knew her mother,” Leo gasped. “Your mother, Kai. Amber. I trained with her. I swore to protect her bloodline.”
That stopped me for half a second.
Summer snarled.
Liar.
My lip curled. “You think name-dropping my mother earns you anything?”
His eyes flicked up to mine. Desperate. Calculating. “You don’t know what’s coming. You have power-raw, untamed. You need someone like me to train you. Get you stronger. Faster. You’re not ready-“
“I don’t need you,” I snapped. “I have them.” I nodded to Dalton and Derrick, whose muscles were coiled like spring traps. My mates. My anchors. My fucking army.
“You had no right to test me. You had no idea who I was and you still hit me like you were trying to prove something.”
He opened his mouth. I pressed my hand harder into his chest, and a low shock pulsed into him.
Not enough to stop his heart.
Just enough to remind him I could.
“You knew exactly what you were doing,” I said. My voice, now cold. Regal. The sound of judgment.
Leo’s mouth twisted. “You have no idea what you’re getting into. You’re in danger. The council .”I know exactly what I’m in,” I hissed. “And the next time you touch me, I’ll burn the bones out of your body before you can say ‘Alpha.”
He flinched.
Summer surged inside me, rising to the surface with the grace of a goddess and the rage of a wolf that had been silenced too long. I stood, slow and deliberate, rising above him like a queen surveying a kneeling subject.
My mates stood with me.
Dalton striked a final powerful punch into Leo’s chest that made his body jolt.
Derrick let go of his throat with a smirk. “Remember this feeling. Because next time, we won’t hold back.”
Leo didn’t move.
Didn’t speak.
He knew.
He fucking knew what I was now.
And if he thought for one second he was still in control of this game?
He was already three steps behind.
And I-
I was shaking.
Not from fear.
From holding it all in.
I hadn’t wanted to expose this. Not here. Not like this. Not when everything I’d built-every lie, every carefully calculated layer-was hanging by a thread.
My chest heaved. My hands were still trembling with leftover static. My wrist ached where he’d pinned it, and there was a bruise forming on my ribs.
But I didn’t move off him.
Not yet.
Because I needed him to understand.
“You don’t talk about this,” I said. My voice was steel. “Not to your colleagues. Not to your students. Not to anyone.”
He looked up at me, eyes still wide with the flickers of residual shock, confusion, and-under it all-respect.
“Understood,” he croaked. Dalton didn’t ease up.
Neither did Derrick.
But I finally moved my feet, to get the hella out of there.
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