Chapter 97. You Ruined Everything

ARDEN

I wasted no time leaving the campus. I didn’t bother telling anyone where I was going—not the professors, not the administration, not even Tessa. Quite frankly, with how things were developing in Elite, staying there felt like sitting inside a glass box while the world burned just outside.

What good would lingering do when the people I loved were in danger?

So I ran. I didn’t even pack anything; I just grabbed my trusty backpack and my jacket before leaving.

The journey to the North was blurrier than I’d like to admit. My paws padded through the grass, and I ignored how some of the twigs intruded on my skin uninvited. I must have been bleeding, but pain was the last thing on my mind. My thoughts circled like vultures, and I ran harder, desperate to arrive before reality could make itself permanent.

From the news, I recognized the slope of the land. I knew that mountainside. That was the facility where Honey was held—the place where broken wolves w