All Chapters of The Alpha’s Mistake: Lila’s Rise from Rejection: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

LILA forThe door creaked when I pushed it open.Lyric’s old room had been locked, after her death—her disappearance—the room had been treated like a mausoleum. No one entered and n one touched it. Until now.I stood in the doorway, the air stale with old perfume and ghosted sunlight. The room was s

He looked so much like Tyler when he slept, it broke something in me every time I watched him. I hadn’t been able to stop watching him lately, since the letters. Since Lyric’s voice came whispering back from the grave with the truth I could no longer unsee. She ran because she wasn’t sure who the f

But I knew it was real.The collection Lyric and I shared still sat in a little cedar box beneath a folded scarf in my personal chest. It had been untouched for years.That night, after Gavin was asleep and Tyler was in the war room with the elders, I lit a candle, closed the bedroom door, and opene

I told him about the cowries, the one I found with Gavin on the trail, the one the owl brought and, the one that appeared beside my bed.“I think she’s alive, Tyler,” I whispered. “I think Lyric is alive and I think she’s trying to warn me that Gavin’s in danger.”His face was stone.I rushed forwar

LILAThe inn hadn’t changed.Still perched like a forgotten thought on the slope of the mountain, its wooden beams worn by years of weather and silence. The kind of place people came to disappear, if only for a night.I hesitated outside the door, hood pulled low, hands shaking inside my sleeves.I