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Chapter 18

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LILA

I didn’t realize how much I needed the sun until it touched my skin.

The warmth settled over me like a gentle blanket, quieting the usual tightness in my chest. I stretched out on one of the padded loungers beside the Pack House pool, draped in a soft cotton cover-up and sunglasses too big for my face. It felt indulgent, almost foreign. A moment of calm in a life that had forgotten how to be still.

The water shimmered beside me, clean and quiet, disturbed only by the occasional splash from one of the younger warriors training in the deeper end. From somewhere far off, I heard the laughter of pups and the low murmur of adults in conversation. It didn’t feel like home but it didn’t feel like a battlefield either. That was something.

For once, Gavin was napping peacefully inside, his dreams quiet. He’d had a good morning eating a full breakfast, trying to draw with a stick in the garden dirt. It felt like progress.

I tilted my head back and let the sun soak into my skin.

For a momen
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  • The Alpha’s Mistake: Lila’s Rise from Rejection   Chapter 56

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  • The Alpha’s Mistake: Lila’s Rise from Rejection   Chapter 55

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  • The Alpha’s Mistake: Lila’s Rise from Rejection   Chapter 54

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  • The Alpha’s Mistake: Lila’s Rise from Rejection   Chapter 53

    LILAThe room they placed me in smelled like lavender.Warm light spilled across the stone walls from a low-burning fireplace, and the bed beneath me was too soft, like clouds spun from wool. Every breath I took hurt. Something was broken inside me—cracked ribs, they said—but the ache in my skull was worse. A dull, pressing throb that made thought slippery and recall impossible.I didn’t know where I was. I didn’t know who I was supposed to be but everyone else seemed to know me.A healer flitted in and out. She smiled too wide and too often, like I might break if she frowned. She called me “Luna.” The word echoed strangely in my mind, as if it belonged to someone else entirely.A boy visited me, he was small, bright-eyed, with a head full of dark curls and the kind of smile that could break a thousand hearts. He didn’t say much, just crawled into the bed beside me when the healer wasn’t looking and held my hand with both of his. When I asked him his name, his eyes watered.“Gavin,” h

  • The Alpha’s Mistake: Lila’s Rise from Rejection   Chapter 52

    LILAReid had paid the price for our fractured Pack and for Tyler’s blind spots.One thing struck me hard; Dominic and George were not among them. I searched again and they weren’t there.They were not standing in the shadows, not mourning the man who died for their brother’s heir.A cold certainty settled in my chest; they weren’t hiding from grief, they were hiding from guilt.The Packhouse was unusually quiet when we returned. There were no barking laughter from the training grounds and no echo of running feet through the halls. The usual scent of baking bread and simmering herbs had faded, replaced by cold, dusty stillness, like even the walls were mourning.Gavin had cried himself to sleep on the way back. I carried him through the halls in my arms, his body heavy with exhaustion and grief. He didn’t stir as I entered our chambers and laid him down on the bed. I brushed the hair from his forehead and kissed him, just once, before drawing the blanket up to his shoulders.I stayed

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