Lyra's POVI could see in her eyes the shock that she couldn't even try to hide. She was looking at me like I had said something that I shouldn't have, like I was making up stories that were too dangerous.But the fright and surprise in her eyes were too much to be ignored, I had never seen her like that. She was a cruel mother to me and she didn't even try to hide that she didn't care about me. I have seen several parts of her the world was blinded to, I have seen her in differents lights, I had tried to understand why a mother would ever treat her daughter that way, sometimes, I believed that I was a mistake that I was nothing more than the thing she looked upon one day and hated and regretted so intensely.I had seen her angry, hungry, happy even though it was on rare occasions, I have seen parts of her that nobody on this earth knew about.However, the expression on her face was new and I couldn't find the right word to describe it. It looked like she was surprised and at the same

Asher's POVI looked at her, I was beyond stunned by her words. It was a grievous assumption she was making. After deceiving me into sleeping with her, I could hardly believe she would go ahead and call herself my mate.I was furious. I couldn't believe that this was someone I had felt pity for a few minutes ago, it was shocking that she could say something like that.I never thought of the possibility of her harboring such ideas in her head. But as I began to think further, I finally understood her only goal for deceiving me. She wanted power.Power she thought I could offer her when it was next to impossible, my mate was Devlin and this girl wanted more than she was getting. She was probably envious of Devlin and so wanted to have Devlin's life. She wanted everything that Devlin owned and that included me.I couldn't even look at her. I was honestly disgusted at how someone could possibly be thinking this way. What could she probably be thinking?She must've thought she had every

Lyra's POVWhen my butt collided with the earth, I was suddenly pushed into reality. It dawned on me like never before that Asher would never believe my words, Asher would never see me as a human, much less his mate. He was disgusted at the sight of me and everything about me irks him.I saw it in his eyes as he looked at me, he didn't even try to help me up, instead he just stared at me like falling down was my fault. Like I was the one who had brought it all on my head.Maybe I really was at fault. I had done something so stupid, I had opened my mouth and poured out the truth I was keeping to myself, to Asher who didn't care about me. Asher who blamed me for everything.I was truthfully stupid.It was my fault. I had kept to myself, if i had walked away from him, or even kept my mouth shut and just took the rare pity he was offering me, maybe none of this could've happened.Maybe my life wouldn't be the shitshow it was now.Asher was standing before me, and he looked at me with a w

Just like everyone else who was watching the whole interaction between Kaden's mother and Asher, I was equally stunned by what Asher was saying. He had said he wanted to punish Kaden's mother and it was something that had never been done before. Asher was the alpha but Kaden's mother was his stepmother before he became the alpha and he owed her that respect but looking at the two of them and how they spoke to one another, there didn't seem to exist any form of respect or even the slightest acknowledgement.Asher was frowning at Kaden's mother. He was way taller than she was and from how they stood facing each other, Asher waa kike a tower hovering above her.I panicked, I feared that something bad was going to happen and I couldn't help but blame myself. Maybe if I had told Kaden that I wasn't comfortable talking to him, he could've backed away, but I didn't.I could've been more plain and outright to him but I wasn't and that is why he would grab my hand and harass me. It was nobody

Lyra's POVI felt a sense of dread and fear wash over me. They had claimed that they were taking me to a special dungeon but as much as I could remember, I knew no such thing existed. I didn't know what to do about that nor how to go about asking them where we were going.I was a prisoner, it was not my place to ask questions but to sit still and allow them.lead me to wherever they wanted to. All i was now was no one's fault but mine.I knew I had this weird obsession with blaming myself for every little thing that happened but it truthfully was my fault. Though I couldn't keep on blaming myself for every little thing, every action someone made against me but I felt if i hadn't behaved in a certain way, said some particular words then maybe they wouldn't have acted in such a way to me.Everything in life was a causal effect, one thing had to happen for something else to happen and in this case, I had to open my mouth and say some fucked uo things to Asher, things that Kaden eventually