Chapter 28 - Cradle of Escape

Lara was ashamed of what she had become. Once she had been set to be the alpha’s mate, but after being passed over for no less than the daughter of a traitor, she was practically left with nothing. It was humiliating. Life just wasn’t working out. Even after graduating Silverdale

University at the top of her class, Lara felt as though she had nothing to show for the first thirty years of her life. She was still stuck in Silverdale,

the locked supernatural community where her pack were practically the rulers of the place, and yet she felt like less than nothing. Especially when

her parents so often liked to remind her of the fact she could have quite literally been Silverdale’s queen if she hadn’t messed things up with Layon Silverdale.

It was her mother’s face, so much like her own, that she saw in her mind’s eye, smiling at her with a dark expression of sheer disappointment in

her hazel eyes as she said,

“You wouldn’t be sitting here now if you hadn’t

let him go so easily!”

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