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Chapter 8: Eclipse
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2026-08-12 11:22:51
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Reborn: The Daughter They Regret Losing Chapter 15: The Border Fund
Layla's POVAurora's face lost its color.The flush from the compliments drained first. Then everything under it went too. She didn't know which lie to grab first.I'd suspected since Brenna and I arrived. The scale of the Ball didn't match a Pack whose anonymous funding had just been cut.So while Brenna kept Kaelen busy with conversation and I made rounds through the crowd, I'd asked careful questions.The caterer's deposit timeline. The florist's invoice. The musicians' booking fee.Each answer narrowed the window until only one source was left."You didn't." My voice was quiet enough that only Aurora and the nearest guests could hear. "Tell me you didn't touch the border defense fund."Aurora's mouth opened. Nothing came out. And I knew.The conversations around us died outward like ripples. Guests who'd been admiring the decorations moments ago now stood still, waiting."What's this about a border fund?" A woman from the eastern delegation looked between us.Father and Cole had t
Reborn: The Daughter They Regret Losing Chapter 14: The Full Moon Ball
Layla's POVBrenna and I arrived in understated formal black. My hair was down. No jewelry. Brenna wore fitted trousers and a structured jacket that looked elegant until you noticed how she moved in it."They went all out." Brenna whistled through her teeth as we approached the packhouse.The entrance was lined with imported lanterns. White flowers trailed from every column, their sweetness so thick it caught in the back of my throat. A quartet was playing on the front steps."This isn't the look of a Pack that just lost its funding."I'd been thinking the same thing.The first set of guards waved us through without a second look. They were almost polite about it.Brenna raised an eyebrow as we passed. "I was expecting worse.""Probably didn't recognize me. Watch."Words barely out, another guard stepped into our path. He looked at me, then at Brenna, and his hand came up."Miss Thorne." A nod at me, then a flat stare at Brenna. "Your companion doesn't have clearance.""She has an inv
Reborn: The Daughter They Regret Losing Chapter 13: The Mask
Layla's POVMy body went rigid the moment we started moving.I knew how to fight. I could dodge a knife in the dark and pin someone twice my size. But nobody on the northern border taught you to dance. Rhythm meant counting seconds between footfalls so you didn't trigger a trap wire. Not this — not a hand at my waist, not a crowd pressing us together every time someone swayed too far.His shoulder. His chest. His shoulder again.Every collision sent his scent straight through me: cedar, iron, warm skin underneath. The hand on my waist was steady and dry, and I hated how aware I was of its exact position.I couldn't focus. A lycan king in an underground tavern owned by Night Veil.Either he didn't know what this place was, which seemed impossible for someone who'd identified my name two nights ago, or he knew exactly what it was and came anyway.The thought made my mouth dry.He was testing something. The shape of it wasn't clear yet.I stepped on his foot."What are you thinking about
Reborn: The Daughter They Regret Losing Chapter 12: The Ledger
Layla's POVThe private room above the tavern smelled of old wood and lamp oil. I sat at the head of the table while a man I'd never met read numbers off a tablet."Total personal transfers from your account to the Thorne Pack over the past six months: four million seven hundred and thirty thousand." He swallowed. "Night Veil subsidiary operations provided the Pack with preferential trade rates, supply-chain access, and logistical support worth more than that number."He kept talking, eyes lifting from the tablet every few sentences to steal a glance at me. I stopped listening.Brenna cleared her throat. The man's eyes dropped back to his screen."Combined total across direct transfers and all subsidiary support channels—" he cleared his throat— "approximately eleven million, six hundred thousand."He'd been sneaking glances at me since he walked in, trying to reconcile the teenage girl in the oversized jacket with the person his boss called boss.This tavern was one of dozens of prop
Reborn: The Daughter They Regret Losing Chapter 11: The Welcome
Third PersonCole checked his watch for the fourteenth time.They'd been standing at the east gate since half past eight. Aurora had changed outfits twice before they left. The Pack banners were freshly pressed. The guards stood in formation. Everything was exactly as it should be.No one had come."They're late." Cole loosened his collar. The morning sun was climbing and his formal jacket was sticking to his back.Aurora fanned herself with a gloved hand. "Maybe they had trouble finding us?""Night Veil controls half the underground economy and they can't find a Pack gate?"He paced three steps left, three steps right. The encounter with Layla that morning was still under his skin. Not her words — he'd stopped listening to what she said days ago. It was the way she moved.He'd sent two trained guards to grab her, and she'd slipped past them like they were furniture.The old Layla had been meek. Apologetic. The kind of girl who flinched when you raised your voice. He'd found that path
Reborn: The Daughter They Regret Losing Chapter 10: The Card
Layla's POV"What kind of person hangs around my sister?"This remark infuriated Brenna. "This person has a name, you—"I caught her arm. She swallowed whatever she was about to say, but her shoulders stayed rigid.Aurora tilted her head, a soft crease between her brows. "Cole, don't be mean. Layla must be so lonely in that house all by herself. It makes sense she'd want to see a friend." She gave me a sympathetic smile. "Right, Layla?"The words sounded generous, but Cole's face darkened, exactly the way Aurora intended."An Alpha daughter doesn't roam around at dawn hugging strangers in the middle of the road." Cole's chin lifted. "Look at her. She's covered in dirt. She looks like a rogue.""And you look like someone who's never been punched," Brenna said flatly.I pinched the back of her arm. She pinched me back."I'm not a stranger," Brenna continued, her voice level now. "I'm Layla's oldest friend. And I'm standing on a public road, so unless Pack law has changed overnight, I do
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