All Chapters of In Love With The Scared Alpha : Chapter 71

Lyra’s POVDarkness didn’t fall all at once.It crept.Like a living thing, it slid along the stone walls, swallowed the glowing sigils, smothered the moonfire that had been roaring out of me moments before. The chamber didn’t go silent no, it listened. As if the fortress itself was holding its breath, waiting to see whether I would break… or become something else entirely.My knees hit the floor.Not because I was weak but because the truth had weight.Elara.Thane.My parents’ names echoed inside my skull, colliding with memories that were never whole. A woman’s laughter in a sunlit corridor. Strong hands lifting me onto broad shoulders. A scent pine and iron and warmth that I had chased in my dreams for years without ever knowing why.Rockan was suddenly there, grounding me, his arms locking around my shoulders before I could tip forward completely. His presence was solid, fierce, real. If I let go, I knew I would dissolve into the dark.I pressed my forehead into his chest and in