CHAPTER 26: GUINEA PIG

SERAPHINA’S POV

An hour later and Artemis has been announced the winner of today’s section, which was already expected.

Despite his cruel personality, he still has many talents to back up his claim to the throne as the next Alpha King.

The crowd has long cleared, and I remain back on my own, sitting at the edge of the stage silently with myself.

The endpoint of today strangely doesn’t shock me as much as I thought it would. Perhaps a part of me knows I was being delusional when I thought I could really do this.

I guess the only part I didn’t anticipate was being locked in a room and having to crawl through a rat-infested vent just to escape.

Then there’s that vision I had in the heat of the tournament.

The memory of burning buildings and the smell of death still lingers with me like it had been a real experience for me. My hands still tremble when the blazing red eyes of the wolf comes to my mind.

It’s like I had actually been there, along with the fear of impending doom inside me,