Rainy

Prey Meets Predator

Blackthorn University has never graduated a human — not because humans cannot pass the coursework, but because they rarely survive the social ecosystem long enough to try. Rainy Calloway arrived on a full academic merit scholarship, the first human admitted in eleven years, armed with nothing but a backpack, a near-perfect GPA, and the stubborn refusal to be invisible. Everything was survivable until the moment she collided with Cael Ashford in the arena corridor, spilled his pre-game energy drink across his jersey, looked up into gold-flecked eyes — and watched something ancient and irreversible ignite behind them. By the time she understood what that look meant, he had already said the words out loud, in front of everyone, and the entire supernatural hierarchy of Blackthorn University had heard him claim her.