The Crescent Academy. The sole place for hope and light for humans when mankind was on the verge of extinction.

The world was filled with all sorts of mysterious creatures making mankind their bullseye.

To save mankind from inevitable extinction, the Crescent Academy was formed. The uniqueness of this academy lay in its framework.

The academy had three main structures that shared the same property uniting wolves, humans, and other sets of creatures with the same level of intelligence as humans.

The children studying at the academy were the last hope for the survival of mankind. Humans were the lowest bar on the food chain, which made it difficult for the Crescent Academy to protect the last hope.

Hence, the founder finally decided to form an alliance with the wolves and the creatures with good aims and allowed them to join the academy to protect humans from any unfortunate events.

There were many creatures at that time who wanted to destroy human existence, but vampires were the most vicious among them all, threatening mankind to its core.

When the Crescent Academy was first established, it faced all sorts of obstacles, including several attacks from vampires as well as other creatures. Even local rogue wolves attacked the academy. The wolf packs did not support the rogue wolves. The founder was a wolf, and not just any wolf, but the alpha of the Crescent pack, and was determined to save humanity.

But soon enough the enormous power of his pack influenced the other wolf packs, and it was decided that the future alphas from every pack would attend the academy. It was not only to protect the human children studying there but also to form a strong alliance with the wolf packs.

The wolves and vampires dominated the world at that time. And it proved to be a wise step for the wolves as well. The vampires were the biggest enemies of the wolves and the humans at that time.

But there was one name that was enough to make the whole world tremble. Chris Wentworth, a vampire, living for more than a thousand years with powers that were beyond the level of a few wolf packs combined. He alone held the power to crush the academy’s existence. But soon enough, the power of the wolves started to rise, and he decided not to take any steps until it was time. He had been waiting for thousands of years for just the right moment.

Among all the human children attending the academy, most were orphans. The few who believed that their parents were alive, had no idea where their parents could be living.

The son of the founder and the next alpha of the Crescent Pack was attending the academy, along with other alphas and betas. The academy was full of wolves and creatures with the same goal: to destroy the vampires.

Now, if I tell this as a story, it begins with a human girl with a heart of gold. She was naive and delicate and did not understand all the complexities of the world.

But she was the heart of the academy. Everyone liked her and the founder of the academy would consider her his daughter. Her name was Liliana.

Liliana was the reason Chris Wentworth would not harm the academy. She was noble blood, which was the most precious blood needed for the survival of an alpha vampire like Chris. It was the source of his superiority. He would not take any step that might harm Liliana before she turned 18. Her blood could awaken power only after crossing that age.

Liliana was the type of girl who could easily fit in the role of the main protagonist in a romance novel. And why not? Even the son of the alpha, Eris Crescent shared a soft spot for her.

Eris was a Lycan. A Lycan was an alpha wolf with enormous power and control over any other alphas and was known as the alpha of the alphas. His power gradually surpassed every wolf in history, and he was the hope for the wolves. He was the only wolf who could face Chris in a battle, and Eris had been preparing his whole life as the next alpha on the throne. He was also my mate.

It was unfortunate that a Lycan had a mate who was merely a beta. I, Rosanne Mio, am a nobody in this whole story.

When I turned sixteen, I found out that Eris was my mate. He was of my age.

It was degrading for an alpha to have a mere beta as his mate. As we were too young, we did not need to bond with each other right then. I was appointed to take training to inherit the throne as the future Luna of the pack.

Everything was settled. I was the next alpha’s mate. No one from the alpha family opposed this and so for the past two and a half years, I had been receiving training to enhance my skills to fit properly into the position of the Luna.

I had also been attending the Crescent Academy. I had seen Liliana a lot of times. She was lively. She would catch anyone’s attention. I was being treated as the future Luna, so I was known among the novices as well.

While attending the academy I would meet Eris all the time. We were attending different sessions, but I could always feel his wolf. His wolf could probably feel mine as well, but he never revealed that.

Each time I saw him, either before attending classes or while returning to the dorm, it was always fresh and different for me. My wolf would always act as if we were realizing that he was my mate for the first time. But Eris seemed to have so much control over his wolf. I could never tell if he was my mate from his expression.

Eris was always a calm and composed person. He had so many mysteries within him that he would not open up to anyone. But deep inside he was a warm and kind person.

I could tell by the look on his face while communicating with Liliana. He would always take care of her. I knew it was his duty to protect Liliana, but I had never seen him looking at anyone else with so much warmth. His kind smile was always stored for her.

I was his mate. As a Lycan, his possession should have been more than any other wolf. Yet he would not even glance at me properly. I would always ignore his warmth towards Liliana, giving him a thousand excuses. Eventually, I grew busier with my training.

Even though we began sharing the same session, we barely saw each other.

Things were pretty normal until Liliana's eighteenth birthday.

I was not just any child. Things that I had already realized but decided not to take into account were now proving vital. And finally, I took the step.