All Chapters of The Alpha’s Mistake: Lila’s Rise from Rejection: Chapter 141 - Chapter 150

LILAThe forest thickened the farther we walked, bark scratched raw in places like the trees had been clawed at from the inside. Branches tugged my hair, thorns caught my sleeves. Tyler walked ahead with his blade drawn, his shoulders tensed just enough to make my eyes follow the twitch in his jaw e

LILALyric dragged me away. She stopped in front of a narrow linen closet, shoved the shelves aside, and opened a hidden door behind them. I followed her down a spiral stairwell into a room filled with old candles and broken charms. She grabbed a cracked wooden box off the shelf and dropped it onto

LILACowrie had commandeered the kitchen, dragging a plastic stool across the tiles, her sleeves rolled up, her curls bouncing with every stomp. She slapped a wrinkled piece of paper onto the wall beside the table and smoothed it down with both palms like it held a treaty of war.It held the rules f

LILAThe storm cracked inside me without warning. I sat on the floor beside Lyric’s cot, knees pulled in, fists buried in the folds of my shirt, as if holding my own skin might stop the way everything spun.The edges of the room blurred, the fire danced too wildly in the grate, the shadows ran longe

LILAWe crossed the last ridge before sunrise, legs raw, shoulders aching, faces covered in soot from the burnt trees we’d passed through. Raven’s Peak didn’t look like home anymore.The skyline had changed. The old watchtower stood darker than I remembered, windows blacked out, smoke curling faintl