All Chapters of Until She Was Theirs: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

Lilith’s POVLyra stared at her phone a moment longer, her expression tightening by a fraction, so slight that anyone else would’ve missed it. But I’d spent enough time around Cassian to recognize the signs. The twins might play in chaos, but every now and then something real cracked through the glitter.Then it was gone. Lyra snapped the mask back into place and shoved the phone into her jacket.“Alright,” she chirped, “warehouse tour done. Let’s go test the bikes.”I blinked. “Test the bikes?”“Oh yeah,” she said, already walking backwards toward the exit. “You didn’t think I brought you all the way here without trying out the prototypes, did you? That would be boring.”Before I could answer, she spun around and strode toward the garage bay like she owned the building.I followed, mostly because if I didn’t, she’d probably steal something or blow something up or both.The garage opened into an outdoor lot. Wind whipped through the open space, carrying the scent of steel and oil and

‎‎Lilith’s POV‎‎‎I woke up to the sound of my phone buzzing relentlessly under my pillow, an unfamiliar vibration pattern that immediately jerked me from sleep. Nolan and Cassian were both gone from the hallway outside my room; the house had that early-morning stillness where even the walls seemed half-awake.‎‎I blinked until my eyes adjusted, reached for my phone, and frowned at the unknown number flashing across the screen.‎‎I should have ignored it.‎‎I really, really should have ignored it.‎‎But I opened the message.‎‎And the second I did, my stomach dropped so violently It felt like the floor would split beneath me.‎‎A picture filled my screen, it was Cassian’s unmistakable silhouette, unmistakable posture, unmistakable proximity…. And Lyra draped beside him, her mouth near his neck, his hand resting on her thigh. The lighting was unmistakably a club or a bar. Cassian looked intoxicated, leaning in, letting her close.‎‎My heart didn’t just sink.‎‎It ignited with

Lilith’s POVI slammed Tyla’s door shut harder than necessary, the sound echoing through her living room like a visible punctuation to the storm already brewing inside me.“Unbelievable,” I snapped, tossing my bag onto her couch and pacing immediately. Sitting still felt impossible. My skin buzzed with irritation, my every nerve on edge. “Absolutely unbelievable.”Tyla didn’t even flinch. She leaned back against her kitchen counter, arms folded, lips twitching like she was only seconds away from laughing. “You have said that three times already,” she said calmly. “And you have only been here for five minutes.”“I’m serious, Tyla.” I dragged a hand through my hair, turning sharply to face her. “Those sisters….Lyra and Kyra….are officially the most annoying human beings to ever walk the face of this earth. I don’t know how they do it, but every time that I think they can’t possibly get under my skin any more than they already have, they somehow find a way.”Tyla finally laughed, soft an

Lilith’s POVI did not even realize how loud Kyra’s voice had become so loud in my head until I was halfway home and still hearing it, it was pretty clear, calm, devastatingly certain.“You’re a complication they don’t need.”The city blurred past me as I walked, my steps automatic, my mind filled with the conversation with Kyra and lyra. I had handled it well back there. I knew I had. I hadn’t raised my voice. I hadn’t shown weakness. I had walked away gracefully with my head high, like whatever they had said hadn’t mattered.But words had a way of sinking in when you least expected it.“You don’t belong in their world.”I clenched my fingers around the strap of my bag, forcing myself to breathe. The problem wasn’t that Kyra had said it. The main problem was that small, traitorous part of me that wondered if she was right.By the time I reached home, the sky had begun to dim, evening settling in softly. The house lights were on, it felt warm and inviting. Too normal. Too peaceful for

Lilith’s POVBring overwhelmed didn’t even begin to cover it.If someone had asked me, right at that moment, how I felt sitting in a dimly lit VIP room of a packed club with pounding bass vibrating through the walls, I wouldn’t have been able to give a single clear answer. My emotions were stacked on top of one another, tangled and loud, confusion, thrill, anxiety, warmth, disbelief.And right in the middle of all of it were Cassian and Nolan.They were both too close.Not in a suffocating way, never that….but in a way that made my pulse trip over itself. Nolan sat beside me on the curved leather couch, his thigh pressed firmly against mine, one arm lazily draped behind me like it belonged there. Cassian stood just in front of me, leaning back against the table, his attention never straying far for more than a second.It was intense.Nolan kept pressing soft kisses to my temple, my cheek, sometimes just beneath my ear like he was testing my reaction. Every single time, my breath hitch