Jin should've kept walking.
Should've pretended he never saw anything.
Should've stayed far, far away from the mess called Kairo and Ayan.
But he didn't.
And that made him a problem.
Kairo found him behind the gym — the one place cowards and gossips went to whisper without teachers hearing.
Jin froze the moment he saw the alpha. His throat bobbed with a hard swallow.
"K–Kairo, I—"
"Don't," Kairo said, voice calm. Too calm.
He took one step forward. Jin took two back.
"Listen, I didn't mean to— I wasn't trying to get involved—"
"But you did get involved."
Kairo's eyes didn't blink.
Didn't soften.
"You saw something."
Jin pressed himself against the wall, panic rising.
"I didn't tell anyone— I swear—"
"You looked at Ayan like you knew something you shouldn't."
Another slow step.
Jin had nowhere left to go.
"Kairo, please— I won't say anything, I promise—"
"That's not the part you should be afraid of."
His voice dropped, a cold whisper.
"What did you see?"
Jin trembled. "I–I saw him during… that moment. The stairwell. His scent— it wasn't normal—"
Wrong answer.
Kairo's jaw flexed. "And you thought it was okay to start whispering about it in the hallway?"
"I wasn't— it slipped— I didn't mean—"
"You don't get it," Kairo said, leaning in, caging Jin with an arm beside his head.
"You're playing with something that doesn't belong to you."
Jin's breath hitched. "I'm sorry."
"I don't need your sorry."
Kairo's eyes were dark, unblinking.
"I need your silence."
Jin nodded rapidly. "Yes. Yes, I won't say anything."
Kairo lowered his head, voice dropping to a lethal whisper.
"If even one word leaves your mouth… I won't let the rumor ruin Ayan."
A pause.
"I'll ruin you first."
Jin's knees almost buckled. "I understand."
Kairo stepped back, gaze still cold.
"Good. Don't make me come back here."
He turned sharply and walked away — but his pulse was raging.
Because if Jin saw that much…
Then Ayan's secret wasn't just fragile.
It was collapsing.
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