MasukLara's POV
"No one is stopping me from becoming Luna," Raina said, her voice dropping into something flat and final…just like a door being shut with complete certainty.
I looked at her standing there with both feet planted to the floor, power still rotating in her palm, eleven years of lies sitting right on the surface for anyone paying close enough attention — and I thought about every single time Lucien had looked at me like I was the p
Lara's POV"Lara."Alpha Lucien's voice came from somewhere down the corridor, getting closer. And I could tell from the way Raina's whole body went completely still instantly, that she had heard it too.What happened next was fast. So fast that even lying there with blood at the corner of my mouth and pain sitting heavy across every part of my body, I almost missed the full sequence of it.She grabbed the small iron scissors from the edge of the sink and without a single second of hesitation, drove it into her own thigh. It all went in all hard and deliberate, even the scream that came out of her was real.Whatever pain came with what she had just done to herself was genuine, even if nothing else about any of this was. She pulled it free almost immediately, turned to where I was on the floor, and forced the handle into my palm, pressing my exhausted fingers around it before I had even fully understood what was happening.Then she dropped to the floor right beside me, pressed her hand
Lara's POV"No one is stopping me from becoming Luna," Raina said, her voice dropping into something flat and final…just like a door being shut with complete certainty.I looked at her standing there with both feet planted to the floor, power still rotating in her palm, eleven years of lies sitting right on the surface for anyone paying close enough attention — and I thought about every single time Lucien had looked at me like I was the problem. Every time he had chosen her side without asking a single question. Every time I had pushed something true back down because I knew nobody in that clan was going to listen to me over her.None of that was what mattered right now. The only thing that mattered was the life growing inside me, and keeping it there."You are going to kill Alpha Lucien's only unborn pub?" I said, trying to keep my voice level and at the same time, trying to sound like
Lara's POVGetting to the restroom, I ended up not throwing up as much as I had expected.Just the one wave, sharp and quick, and that was it. I stood over the basin for a moment longer anyway, gripping the edge of the sink with both hands and breathing slowly through my nose until I was certain it was done. The cool porcelain under my palms helped. So did the quiet space I was in. At least nobody was in my face. Nobody was gripping my throat, delivering lines in a carefully soft voice, or standing over me with a pen waiting for me to acknowledge that I had lost.It was just me and the sound of my own breathing. And so, I was going to take every second of it.I straightened up, ran the cold tap, and splashed water on my face. After that, I looked at myself in the mirror for a long moment. And I saw the red eyes that must be as a result of the coughing. The faint outline along the side of my neck that I had already decided not to look at too closely. The face of a woman who had walked
Lara's POV"I want a divorce."Just as the last word dropped off my lips, Alpha Lucien's hand was already around my throat.Alpha Lucien's grip was so tight that at one point, I was already finding it difficult to breathe. My vision blurred at the edges. My airway narrowed down to almost nothing. And yet I still managed to hold onto those divorce papers — my right hand gripping them like they were the only solid thing left in the room. If this was where it ended, then fine. He could have everything else. But I was not letting go of those papers.There was something strange about standing there, struggling to breathe, and feeling more certain than I had felt in years. Five years of that marriage had never given me clarity like this. Five years of hoping, waiting and swallowing everything down had never made anything feel this clean or this simple. And all it had taken was his hand around my throat for the last thing holding me here to finally, completely let go.But then my unborn chil
Lara's POVI swiped the screen open fully.And there it was.A photo of Alpha Lucien lying across Raina's body with his eyes closed and completely at ease — the kind of relaxed that only comes when a person feels truly safe where they are. And Raina was looking directly into the camera, front-facing, and that angle was too deliberate to be accidental. She had taken that picture herself as she must have arranged herself underneath him, waited for exactly the right moment, and captured it on purpose.Then she sent it to me…I wouldn't know if all of these actually happened today, who knows?Or maybe she only decided to share this with me today just to get on me or something.But then, the message that followed the image was there in plain text.'Hey loser. Alpha Lucien doesn't care about you. I am the only one he loves.'I stared at the screen for a long moment without moving. Not because I was shocked though — I wasn't feeling that way anymore. But because something about seeing it writ
Lara's POVBy the time the nurse was satisfied that I was steady enough to be left alone, I had pulled myself together enough to look like a functioning person. Breathing was even and my hands had stopped shaking. The face in the small mirror above the sink looked tired but held together.That was good enough.I thanked her, waited until she had gone back to whatever round she had been doing before I derailed it, and then sat there for another minute in the quiet of that room.You know, I only felt tense seeing that sight — Lucien crouched beside Raina in that corridor, smiling at her like I was something he had already mentally moved out of — and that was why I needed to leave the space at that moment. My body just reacted before my pride could object. But the tense had passed now, and with it the dizziness, and I was not going to let one moment in a corridor undo the one genuinely good thing that had happened to me today.I had a baby. I had a whole life growing inside me.Raina cou







