جميع فصول : الفصل -الفصل 80

LYRA:A vacation.Six months? Away from the pack? Away from everything?Part of me wants to laugh because it sounds impossible. The other part is already counting the seconds until we get there.Right on cue, footsteps echo down the hall. Five workers enter with cleaning materials. They stop when they see us and bow lightly.Aldric nods to them and walks closer to me. “If you want anything changed, tell them.”“Okay.”I smirk. “But six months? That’s a long time to be stuck with you.”“You’ll survive.” He laughs.Later, I find myself back in the cave, lying in the pool and thinking about everything that’s happened over the last few days. Somehow, it all feels a little amusing.I see Madeline coming in, with a smile on her face.“Surprise me,” I say, anxiously.“Oh, you'll be surprised alright,” Madeline says, a smile curling up her lips.We walk out together. I’m curious about what clothes she must have gotten for me.Madeline leads me to a side room, the one Aldric said had been prep

LYRA: The car ride is long and quiet. I sit beside Aldric, watching the road stretch endlessly in front of us. Madeline sits at the back, staring at her hands most of the time. I can tell she’s uncomfortable. She keeps shifting her legs like she doesn't want to be here, which I know. Every time I glance at her through the side mirror, she looks away fast. Aldric doesn’t say much either. He’s focused on the road and occasionally checks his phone like he's expecting a call from the Silvershore Pack. The drive continues like that for hours until the road changes. The air feels cooler, like we’re getting close to a different territory. Aldric finally speaks. “We’re almost there.” Madeline sits upright immediately. I look out the window. Tall white stones line the sides of the road. The ground looks smoother, almost like it was polished. Then metal gates come into view, huge gates, silver plates arranged in overlapping patterns. Two guards stand in front of them. One of them nods

LYRA: I feel really tired. My eyes sting. I didn’t sleep more than ten minutes all night. Aldric sits up and rubs his face. “Hey.” “Morning,” I mumble. My legs feel like bricks when I slide off the bed. He looks at me. “You okay? You look like you got run over.” “Didn’t sleep,” I say. I stand there a second, then sit back down on the edge of the mattress. He puts an arm around my shoulders. Knock knock knock. “Who is it?” I ask. “Room service,” a woman says from the hallway. Aldric gets up, walks over, and opens the door. A young woman in a blue uniform stands there with a tablet. She smiles. “Good morning. Just confirming the details for your stay.” She glances at the screen. “This is the cabin booked for Alpha Aldric of Redveil Pack and Luna Sera, correct? Six-month reservation?” My head snaps up. “What did you just say?” I ask. She blinks. “Alpha Aldric and Luna Sera…?” Aldric’s face goes tight. “There’s a mistake.” The woman scrolls fast. “Oh. Oh

LYRA: The van finally stops and the doors rip open. They drag us out one by one. Aldric is still weak, stumbling next to me, still half out from the wolfsbane. Two guys hold him up by the arms. Madeline lands beside me. She's terrified. “Lyra, what do we do now?” she asks. “I didn't know this would end up like this. I am sorry to have dragged you into this,” I say, staring at a big dirt yard. There is a huge pack house ahead and over forty wolves standing around watching. A man walks out the front door. Tall. A scar runs from his left eye to his mouth. Everyone bows their head a little as they see him. He must be the Alpha. He stops a few feet away and looks at Aldric first. “Been waiting a long time for this,” he says. Then he turns to me. “I am indeed confused. I got intel from my beta that you’re the one who delivered him,” he says. “Why?” “He was going to kill me. The same way he killed his former mate, Sera. According to her, he needed to mark his mate for so

LYRA:“You are really a fucking psycho, why not just drive a dagger through my heart and know that you are done?” I growl, struggling with the grip of the two guys holding my arms.Fredrick stops and turns back.“Well, I don’t see why that wouldn’t be a better idea. But then what gain is in that?... What’s the profit in killing you without Aldric even feeling the pain?”“I really don’t have any issue with you, Lyra, in fact I admire your courage. I mean, you sold Aldric out? That’s badass.”He raises his hand and points at the cliff, the same one he showed me in the sculpture.“Aldric pushed my mate down that cliff. And he made me watch it. The scar he gave me on my face is nothing compared to the one in my heart, Lyra.”He stares at me for a moment.“Now I want to make a bigger scar in Aldric’s heart. He’ll watch your broken body at the bottom of the cliff,” he says. “And I made sure of that.”My heart pounds fast, because the way he says it… I know he means it.“Take her away,” he c