Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Alpha’s Mistake: Lila’s Rise from Rejection: Kabanata 201 - Kabanata 210

SOLENNECowrie squealed first. She didn’t even wait for me to finish the sentence. I’d barely gotten the words out—“I’m pregnant”—before she flung herself at me with her arms around my neck and her tea cup sloshing half its contents down my back.“Oh goddess, Solenne,” she shouted, laughing and cryi

COWRIEThe carriage stopped at the same crooked street with the red-tiled roof where I’d left him. The small house hadn’t changed. The vines still climbed up the sides, the shutters were still crooked, and the paint peeling. I stepped out before the rider could open the door and crossed the garden p

COWRIEI stood before the mirror as Solenne threaded the last pearl into my hair, each tiny bead catching the morning light and scattering it across the walls.Mum adjusted the folds of my ivory gown, smoothing the satin so it clung perfectly to my waist and flowed over my hips, brushing the floor i

I told her about the nausea, the lightheadedness, the ache in my lower back. She listened with her head tilted, fingers cupped around her mug, steam curling past her face. “Let me see your hands,” she said.Her touch was warm and dry. She pressed her thumbs into my palms, then up along the insides o

GAVINThe sun was dipping low when we broke camp, the fire reduced to smoldering coals that hissed as the cool air crept over them. Mara and I had spent the afternoon exploring a narrow canyon that split the forest floor, scrambling over rocks and ducking under low-hanging branches. Her laughter ech