"What do you mean I can’t retake the exam? I told you I had an emergency to deal with last Friday!" Faye’s voice echoed throughout the principal’s office.

Inside the office sat Principal Silviana. She sat perfectly still behind the furniture, her expression smooth and cold as she looked up at the shouting omega.

Faye had already known this was going to happen. The moment she had checked her phone at the hotel, a sinking feeling had settled deep into her stomach.

Silviana was going to use it against her. She had been waiting for a single slip up, a single mistake to trap her in a corner, and missing the final exams was the perfect weapon.

"The exam was on Friday, and you didn’t show up. There was no letter of absence and no notification explaining why you weren’t available," Silviana replied calmly. She adjusted a neat stack of papers on her desk, her voice flat and smooth, completely unbothered by Faye’s rising temper.

"Like I said, my friend was in danger, and I needed to save him." Faye gritted her teeth,

"You are not a member of the GPF. If Mr. Griffin was missing, you should have informed them. That is their job, not yours. I’m afraid you won’t be allowed to retake the exam. And without those results, you won’t advance to Class 11. Unfortunately, I do not accept repeating students." Silviana said each word slowly, letting the rejection hang heavily in the quiet air of the room.

"I’m not the only student who’s ever missed an exam. Whenever someone gets sick or is absent, they’re always allowed to take it later. Malo was in the nurse’s office for days because of his broken jaw and leg. When he recovered, he still took his exams." Faye argued, her breathing turning shallow as she leaned her weight forward against the desk.

"My decision is final, Ms. Grande. No school in Oakland will accept you now. It’s best if you leave quietly." Silviana folded her hands over the folders, her eyes locking onto Faye with a look of pure victory.

Faye stood up from her chair.

She reached the office door before stopping. Her hand hovered over the brass knob, her knuckles turning pale as she fought the urge to twist it.

Slowly, she turned back to face the principal. Her jaw was set into a hard line, her lungs expanding with a deep, shaky breath as she stared at the woman.

"Why are you doing all this?"

"What do you mean?" Silviana asked,her head with a fake look of confusion that made Faye’s blood boil instantly.

"Don’t pretend you don’t know what I’m talking about. You don’t like me, and I know it. I don’t like you either because you seem fake. What exactly do you gain by kicking me out of this school?" Faye demanded, her voice dropping into a low, threatening register.

Silviana leaned back in her chair. The leather creaked softly under her weight as she let out a quiet amusement through her nose.

She adjusted her glasses and smiled. It was a small, nasty grin that didn’t reach her cold eyes.

"What do I gain?, That’s simple..... I get you out of the picture so Princess Kings can finally come back to her senses." Silviana said it directly, her tone turning sharp as she dropped the professional act.

"You’re nothing but a distraction to her future. Princess has a bright future ahead of her, and I refuse to let you stain it with your darkness." She leaned forward again, her gaze narrowing as she spat the insult across the clean desk.

"You’re a bad person," Faye said quietly. Her heart gave a sudden, hard thud against her ribs, the sheer malice in the principal’s voice making her skin crawl.

"No. I’m simply bringing out the brightness. Just as I did with Adam Kings... My husband is successful and has an incredibly promising future." Silviana boasted, her chin lifting with an arrogant pride that made her look exactly like Adam.

"Your husband is a monster wearing a suit. Just because you managed to tame him doesn’t mean you can tame mine... I’m not Paye. Don’t mistake me for him. We may be siblings, but we’re completely different." Faye growled, her posture locking up as she took a step back toward the center of the room.

"He’s the calm and I’m the storm."

"We’ll see about that Extent," Silviana replied with another smile. "We’ll see how long you can hold on to that Alpha. She is already in the palm of my hand. One more push... and she won’t be yours anymore. Even your pups won’t belong to you."

That was enough.

Faye had tolerated the principal long enough. The air around her turned thick and hot, her wolf completely taking over her senses as the final threat echoed in her ears.

First, she came after her. Then she came after Princess.

Now she had threatened her children. The thought of anyone touching her four pups made a violent wave of protectiveness explode in her chest.

Faye had hated Silviana from the very beginning. She had kept it buried deep inside just to stay out of trouble, but the line had been crossed.

At that moment, she officially earned a permanent place on Faye’s punch list. There was no going back from this, no apology that would ever fix the words that had just left the principal’s mouth.

Since she was already being expelled...

Well why hold back?

Faye lunged forward.

Her fist crashed into Silviana’s face with a brutal Superman punch, knocking the principal out of her chair. The solid crack of knuckles meeting bone echoed loudly off the walls as the impact sent the young woman flying backward.

Her glasses flew off somewhere across the office. Silviana landed hard on the floor. She let out a sharp gasp of pain, her hands instantly going to her nose as she groaned on the floor.

Faye crouched beside her. She dropped her knees onto the ground right next to the principal’s head, her face inches away as she glared down at her.

"Look at me," she growled. The sound was pure animal fury, a low vibration that made the glass on the desk rattle.

"Since I’m no longer your student, let me give you a proper goodbye present... That punch was for mentioning my kids." Faye said it flatly, her breath coming out in short, heavy gasps as she kept her body locked over the woman.

She straightened Silviana’s wrinkled blazer. Her fingers roughly yanked the fabric back into place, smoothing down the lapels with a terrifying calmness.

"And this one... ...is for trying to make me feel like I’m worth less than your smart-ass sister."

Faye drove another punch into her face. Her arm came down with absolute force, the second impact snapping Silviana’s head back against the floor with a dull thud.

Silviana went completely limp. Her eyes rolled back, her hands dropping away from her face as her breathing turned slow and heavy, completely knocked out cold.

Faye stood up. She wiped a stray drop of blood from her knuckles onto her skirt, her chest still heaving with an angry rhythm as the adrenaline slowly began to drop.

Only then did she notice Princess standing silently in the doorway. The alpha was leaning against the frame, her eyes wide as she looked from the unconscious principal on the floor to her girlfriend.

Neither of them said a word. The silence stretched between them in the messy office, the distant sounds of the school hallway totally ignored.

Faye simply walked past her...

...and left the school.