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Chapter 11

Lucian's POVI watched Esme leave with Maya trying to walk steady, to hide the fear, but I saw it. The slight tremble in her shoulders and the way she kept looking over her shoulder.Selene had made a mistake today, she had shown her hand too early, revealing just how far she was willing to go and that gave us information. Ammunition.But it also meant the timeline had accelerated, whatever Selene was planning, it was coming soon and Esme wasn't ready.I pulled out my phone and sent a quick text to Xavier: “We need to talk. Selene made her first move, It's worse than we thought.”His response came immediately: “My office. Now.”I found him standing by the window, staring out at the estate grounds and Soren was there too, leaning against the desk with his arms crossed. They both looked grim."Tell me," Xavier said.I explained everything. The broken glass and the deliberate trip. When I finished, Xavier's jaw was tight, his hands clenched."She's escalating faster than I expected," he
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Chapter 12

Esme's POVFour days. That's all the time I had left before the Alpha trials began, before I'd face Selene in front of the entire pack. Four days to become someone I wasn't sure I could be.The training yard was already lit with floodlights when I arrived, the pre-dawn darkness still thick around us. All four of my brothers waited, their expressions grim. This wasn't like our previous sessions where they'd taught me basics, where they had been patient. This was different and urgent."We're changing your training regimen," Xavier said without preamble. "What we've taught you so far was foundation. Now we prepare you for what's actually coming."Dorian stepped forward, his usually warm eyes serious. "Selene's been training for this her entire life, Esme. She's not just participating in the Alpha trials. She's been engineered for them. Every move she makes has been calculated, practiced a thousand times.""I know," I said quietly. I'd been lying awake at night thinking about it, imagini
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Chapter 13

Esme's POVThe water in my bath had gone cold hours ago, but I couldn't move. My body was submerged to my chin, arms wrapped around my knees watching the bruises bloom across my skin like dark flowers. They looked like the ones from before.I tried to push the thought away, but it came anyway, crawling up from the dark place I had locked it. The memory of other bruises. Older ones. The kind that came with laughter—their laughter, not mine.“Little omega can't even stand up straight."I squeezed my eyes shut, but that made it worse. Behind my closed eyelids, I was twelve years old again, face-down in the dirt of Shadow Pack's training yard. There, I wasn't learning to fight.“Again," the trainer had said. Not to me. To them. To the three boys who circled me like wolves around wounded prey. “She needs to learn her place."And they had kicked me. Over and over while the adults watched and nodded and called it discipline.My breath came faster now, chest tight. The bathroom walls felt too
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Chapter 14

Esme's POVThe morning sun came through my window like a slap. I jerked awake, gasping, my sheets soaked with sweat. For a moment I didn't know where I was. The nightmare clung to me like wet clothes.Then I saw Maya asleep in the chair beside my bed, her head tilted at an angle that would hurt her neck later. She'd stayed. All night.The clock on my wall said five-thirty. Two and a half days until the trials. Sixty hours. Three thousand six hundred minutes until I had to attend the Alpha Duel in front of everyone.My hands started shaking again.No. I pressed them flat against the mattress. No more falling apart. No more panic attacks. Selene wanted me broken before I ever stepped into that ring and I wouldn't give her the satisfaction.I slipped out of bed without waking Maya and dressed in silence. My body screamed with every movement, yesterday's training had left me covered in bruises across my ribs, shoulders, and thighs. I looked like someone had painted me with pain.Good. Pai
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Chapter 15

Esme's POVI made it to the edge of the training yard before my legs gave out. Maya caught me, lowered me to the ground behind a storage shed where no one could see."That was the stupidest, bravest thing I've ever seen," she whispered.I tried to laugh, but it came out as a sob. The adrenaline was wearing off, leaving behind nothing but pain. My ribs felt like broken glass. My hands wouldn't stop shaking."Did it work?" I managed."See for yourself."I looked around the shed corner. The pack leaders were still there, talking in clusters. Some looked impressed. Some were skeptical. But none of them looked at me the way they had before, with pity and doubt.Now they looked at me with something else.Fear. Respect. Recognition.The shift in their expressions made something tighten in my chest. For so long, I'd been invisible. The weak omega. The broken girl from Shadow Pack. The one everyone pitied but no one really saw. Now they were seeing me. Really seeing me and I didn't know if that
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Chapter 16

Esme's POVI stared at my reflection in the mirror, barely recognizing the girl looking back at me. Two weeks ago, I'd been nothing, a broken omega who flinched at shadows. Now I was volunteering to fight the pack's strongest warriors in front of everyone."You don't have to do this," Xavier said from the doorway.I turned to face him. "Yes, I do.""Esme…""I chose this, Xavier. Nobody forced me." I sat on the edge of my bed, wincing as my still-healing ribs protested. "I want to do this.” He crossed the room and sat beside me. "Why? Why put yourself through this?"The answer came easier than I expected. "Because I'm tired of being weak, of everyone looking at me like I'm something fragile that might break." I met his eyes. “I can survive this.""The trials start tomorrow. You have less than twenty-four hours to prepare for five consecutive fights against trained warriors.""I know."Xavier's jaw tightened. "The pack elders finalized the format this afternoon. Four minutes per opponen
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Chapter 17

Esme's POVThe arena was packed.I stood at the entrance, Maya beside me, and stared at the sea of faces. Every pack member had come to watch. They lined the concrete ring in tight circles, their eyes hungry for blood, entertainment and proof that I didn't belong here."Breathe," Maya whispered. "Just breathe."But breathing hurts. My ribs throbbed with each inhale and my muscles screamed from yesterday's training. My hands trembled as I gripped the collapsed baton in my pocket.The pack elders sat in elevated seats, five stern faces watching me with calculating eyes. Elder Marlow, Elder Mina. And three others whose names I'd forgotten in my panic."Esme Delvin," Elder Marlow’s voice boomed across the arena. "You have chosen to participate in the alpha trials to prove your worth within the Nightfall pack. Do you understand the terms?"I stepped forward, forcing my voice steady. "I do."These five warriors passed the first elimination round and are ready to challenge you."Five combat
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Chapter 18

Esme’s PovSelene smiled. "Finally. I was getting bored watching them play with you."She didn't wait for the signal.Her blade flashed. I brought up the baton, blocked it. The impact sent shockwaves through my injured arms.She was fast. Faster than Kara. Stronger than Marcus. More tactical than Julian and more brutal than Cole.She was everything I wasn't.Her blade found my shoulder. It cut through my fabric and skin. Blood bloomed hot.I swung the baton. She ducked, came up inside my guard. Her fist connected with my broken ribs.I screamed and went down."Get up, omega," Selene hissed. "Show them why you think you deserve to be here."I tried. gods, I tried. But my body wouldn't respond. The pain was too much.Selene kicked me onto my back and planted her foot on my chest. It pressed down on my broken ribs.I couldn't breathe.Then I saw it. Her stance. She was putting all her weight on the foot pinning me down.I drove the baton into her standing knee.She howled, stumbled back.
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Chapter 19

Esme's POVMorning came too fast. Sunlight cut through the hospital blinds like knives, and I couldn't escape it. My body was wrapped in bandages, stitched together like a broken doll someone tried to fix. Every breath reminded me of Selene's fist and every heartbeat echoed with Elder Mina's words. The real trial hasn't even begun. I didn't understand what she meant, but fear sat heavy in my stomach, cold and patient. Maya helped me dress. A simple grey shirt, loose enough not to press against my wounds. Dark pants that hid the bruises spreading down my legs like spilled ink. She worked in silence, her hands gentle but her eyes worried. When she tied my hair back, her fingers trembled. "You don't have to go," she whispered. "They can announce their decision without you standing there."I met her eyes in the mirror. "If I don't show up, they'll say I'm weak. They'll say I proved their point." She didn't argue because she knew I was right.The gathering hall was already packed when
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Chapter 20

Esme's POVThree days after the verdict, I stood in the training yard at dawn, bandages tight against my ribs, learning to fight properly. Xavier circled me like a predator studying prey, correcting my stance with sharp commands that cut through the morning air.My muscles screamed with every movement. My wounds pulled against their stitches, threatening to tear open. But I didn't stop. Elite warrior training started in three days, and I refused to walk in there looking like easy prey. The other trainees would smell weakness like blood in water, and I'd already bled enough."Again," Xavier barked. I lunged forward, driving my fist toward the practice dummy. Pain exploded through my side where Selene's blade had pierced me. I bit down on my tongue until I tasted copper, swallowing the scream that wanted to escape.Xavier caught my arm mid-swing and adjusted the angle. "You're telegraphing. Anyone with half a brain will see that punch coming from a mile away." His grip was firm but not
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