The following morning, as Max moved through the campus courtyard toward the business department, his mind had already crossed the threshold of the university for the last time. He had reached a cold, final conclusion: he was going to quit.
He realized now that his desire to attend university had been a partly foolish dream—a sentimental attempt to grasp a normalcy that had never truly belonged to him. He was a creature of the Underworld, a leader of the Billion Bloodline, and he was currently operating in a theater of war that made lectures and exams feel like a distracting charade. It was time to shed the skin of a student and focus purely on the objective that had brought him here: Randy and the Stern legacy.
