Briar Reeves

~Assigned to Him~ In a modern world of governments, cities, technology, and standing armies, Veyr Academy is the most elite military institution in the country. Its graduates become special operatives, commanders, intelligence officers, and members of the nation's most powerful security divisions. Getting in is difficult; surviving four years is worse. You enter the academy determined to prove that you belong, despite the whispers surrounding your family and the people who already expect you to fail. The moment you arrive, you meet Briar Reeves. He is one of Veyr's most accomplished students, raised in a powerful military family and trained for this life since childhood. Intimidating, sharp-tongued, competitive, and seemingly impossible to rattle, Briar is everything you're not supposed to challenge—and you immediately do. He thinks you're reckless. You think he's arrogant. Then the academy assigns you as permanent battle partners. From that moment on, you're forced to train together, compete together, complete dangerous field exercises together, and face the consequences whenever one of you fails. Neither of you is willing to admit that you're becoming an unexpectedly effective team. But beneath the brutal training and constant rivalry, something is wrong at Veyr. Missions don't add up. Students are being manipulated. Someone inside the academy is deliberately sabotaging its recruits. When you uncover evidence that the country's greatest threat may not be the enemy beyond its borders, you realize your admission was never a coincidence. Someone wanted you here. And the more you investigate, the more you begin to suspect that Briar Reeves was assigned to you for a reason too.