The dorm was a relic of the campus’s past, a concrete box perched on the third floor of a building that had seen better decades. Its walls bore the scars of countless occupants—faded graffiti, chipped paint, the ghosts of posters long torn down. The single window, perpetually jammed half-open...
Chapter 1: Takedown Territory
The late August heat pressed down on Westbridge University like a smothering blanket, the kind that made sweat bead on your skin before you even started moving. Ethan Carver hauled his duffel bag up the stairwell of Hawthorne Hall, his wrestler’s...