Chapter 215

Ella's POV

For a moment not so brief, I went dumb. My lips parted fully, but not a sound came out. My eyes fixed on the figure as if she were some ghost rising out of the fractured light of the moon.

Finally, a word tore from my throat.

"Daisy?"

That name, it felt foreign and heavy in my mouth. Indeed I hadn't called it in years, like summoning a spirit that should never have been called back.

Or should it?

Daisy–the female werewolf that Liam so loved and adored back then, also the reason Ashley had been banished from Oakwood pack. Daisy, the very one who faked to be in love with Jayden back then when Zane was alive. She made him banish Ashley from the pack, had also died while giving birth to a child named even before he was born–Seth. Everyone believed he belonged to Jayden, the very lie that we created, the one that ruined everything for Jayden.

But she was here before me, breathing, moving. Smiling faintly under the moon's pale gleam.

Helplessly, my gaze darted to Father, s