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Chapter 15 : Aiden’s Silence

Author: Pixie Snow
last update Last Updated: 2024-11-13 21:45:17
Lyra’s POV

The frost lingered longer in the east garden.

It was the quietest part of Blackstone, tucked behind crumbling stone walls and tangled vines left to nature. Once, this had been a place for moon rites and dances. Now, it felt like something abandoned - half-forgotten, like the ghosts that walked its paths.

Lyra stood at the edge of the garden, boots sinking slightly into frost-hardened earth. She could smell winter on the wind. Pine. Cold soil. And Aiden’s scent: faint and muted, like everything else about him lately.

He was there beneath the trees, his figure outlined in sharp shadow against the pale light. Shoulders hunched beneath a black shirt stripped of insignia. No Alpha mark. No rank. Just a man. Nothing more.

She wasn’t sure why she’d come.

Maybe it was closure. Maybe it was curiosity.

Maybe it was because earlier, in the corridor, Kane had said simply:

“He’s leaving tomorrow.”

That had been enough.

Lyra’s boots crunched softly as she stepped closer.

Aiden didn’t turn
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Ash
this story is confusing..and no offense but kinda bland/ boring.. her character, even tho abused, is very dry!
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Jacqueline
Thank you! I am, actually going back and rereading the whole story.
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Jacqueline
So Alpha Caden helped his real daughter be abused the last 3 years? Ok this is good.
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