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Chapter 24:The Version She Told Them
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From Cast-Off Daughter to Lycan Queen Chapter 27: The Weight of Belonging
“Good morning. Did you sleep well?” Big Sis Selina's voice came from behind me before I'd even reached the end of the hallway.“I tossed and turned all night,” I admitted. “I'm nothing but trouble to this pack. To you. To Uncle Damon.”She caught up to me and looped her arm through mine, settling it around my shoulder as we walked toward the dining room together. “Why would you say that? You know that isn't true. You're part of this family now.”“Whitefang keeps proving otherwise.”“Whitefang needs to understand that if anyone's been caged by all this, it's them — caged by their own mess.” She bumped her shoulder against mine, gentle and insistent. “Come on. Let's grab a bite and stop moping about things you have no control over.”Breakfast helped, if only because Selina refused to let silence settle for long. By the time we finished, my stomach had unknotted just enough to breathe properly.After breakfast, Uncle Damon called me into his office. When I entered, Nathan and Julian were
From Cast-Off Daughter to Lycan Queen Chapter 26: After The Storm
The silence after they left was somehow louder than all of Ben's shouting had been.I stood there in the corridor, Julian and Selina still positioned protectively in front of me even though thethreat had been dragged away in restraints. My hands were shaking — not from fear exactly, but from something I couldn't quite name. The adrenaline that had kept me upright through the entire confrontation was draining away, leaving behind something raw and unsteady.Uncle Damon turned toward me, and the fury that had filled the corridor moments ago had shifted into something else entirely. Concern, maybe. Or something deeper than that — something I didn't have a name for because I'd never seen it directed at me before."Are you alright?" he asked, and the question landed differently than it would have from anyone else. Hewasn't asking for a polite answer. He was asking for the truth.I opened my mouth to give him the automatic response — *I'm fine* — but the words stuck in my throat. Because I
From Cast-Off Daughter to Lycan Queen Chapter 25: A Joke to No One
Ben came close enough that I could feel his breath, claws already lengthening, fully prepared to strike. Behind him, I caught the hesitation flickering across Jared and Marcus's faces — that particular kind of stillness that meant if he actually hurt me, neither of them planned to be the one who'd stopped him.My chest did that thing again. Tight. Heavy. These were my brothers. We'd grown up together, and there had been a time — a real one, not imagined — when they'd treated me like a sister worth having. They'd doted on Emilia, always, but they'd been there for me too, back then. Every time Mother decided the cellar would teach me some lesson I hadn't actually failed to learn, every time Emilia's accusations landed me somewhere dark and locked, Jared and Marcus used to sit outside that door with food they'd smuggled down, keeping me company in the only way they were allowed to.Somewhere along the way, that had changed. The louder Emilia cried, the further they'd pushed me away, degr
From Cast-Off Daughter to Lycan Queen Chapter 24:The Version She Told Them
Within hours, the gates of Ashcroft were in an uproar of shouting and growling. Emilia had done what she did best — turned the Callahan brothers against me all over again.They were there demanding an explanation, all three of them crowded at the gate like their fury alone could force it open. Emilia had apparently gotten so worked up that she couldn't get past me at the boutique that she'd been rushed straight to the pack hospital afterward. But the truth she'd told them, as always, bore almost no resemblance to what had actually happened.In her version, I'd pushed her. I'd hurt the baby. She'd already been having complications for days before that, and my anger, my cruelty, had simply added the stress that pushed everything over the edge — as if I'd engineered a confrontation, as if I'd laid a hand on her at all, as if any of it had started with me rather than with her walking up and calling me a charity case in front of a room full of strangers.I reached the gate to find all three
From Cast-Off Daughter to Lycan Queen Chapter 23: They Don't Know Who They're Dealing With
“This isn't a boutique,” I said, staring up at the building Selina had stopped in front of. “I don't even know what this is.”“It belongs to the Darkmoon pack,” she said, like that explained everything. “The Lycan Queen's family. It's one of a kind — nothing else like it in the territory. You don't shop here so much as you're allowed inside.”She swept through the doors like she'd done it a hundred times, and I followed, still trying to process the sheer scale of the place — soaring ceilings, gowns displayed like art rather than merchandise, the quiet hush of somewhere that didn't need to advertise how expensive it was.Then I saw who was already standing inside, and every ounce of wonder drained straight out of me.My mother. Michael. And Emilia, one hand resting on her rounded stomach, the other already curling into something that looked almost like a smile when she spotted me.My heart started hammering before I'd even decided to be afraid. I was aware, suddenly, of every other pers
From Cast-Off Daughter to Lycan Queen Chapter 22: "An Invitation We Didn't See Coming"
“Is something bothering you?” Nathan's voice came from behind me. “Did someone upset you? Don't tell me that scumbag is pestering you again.”The bag split on the seventh hit, right as I turned to answer him.I stared at the tear in the leather, knuckles throbbing, breathing hard. A week of avoiding him, and I still couldn't hit hard enough to make it stop mattering.Beside Nathan stood the person I'd been successfully avoiding all day.Julian.Our eyes met. He didn't look away first.“Running again?” he said, quiet enough that it was almost just for me.“I'm not running. I'm leaving. There's a difference.”“Is there?”It wasn't, and some traitorous part of me knew it — different training times, different routes through the house, a week's worth of careful, deliberate avoidance dressed up as a busy schedule. I didn't have an answer that wouldn't give that away, so I muttered something about needing to shower and made my exit as fast as dignity allowed.Nathan's gaze flicked between the
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