All Chapters of Betrayed by my Sister With my Mate: Chapter 1 - Chapter 6

Lyra’s voice was the first thing that cut through the night, sharp and desperate, pulling her out of sleep like a blade through fabric.Her eyes snapped open in the darkness as her communicator vibrated violently in her hand. For a moment, she couldn’t even draw a full breath. The sound on the other end of the line dragged her backward through ten long years of silence, through everything her family had refused to give her since the day she was cast aside.It was her mother.Not a letter. Not a message. Not a warning sent in advance.A call.And that alone was enough to make dread coil tightly in her chest.“Mother?” Lyra’s voice came out rough, still heavy with sleep. “What’s wrong?”At first, there was only broken sobbing on the other end, unsteady and suffocating. Then her mother’s voice finally came through, fractured and trembling as if each word cost her strength.“Your father… he’s been attacked.”The words didn’t just land. They sank in slowly, like ice spreading through her v

The mourning hall had been heavy with grief when the sound tore through it.“Father!”The cry was so raw it cut through the air like a blade, forcing every head in the corridor to turn at once. Even the healers near the surgical doors froze mid-step.Lyra’s breath caught in her throat before she even understood why.A woman burst into the hospital like she had run through a storm without stopping. Her cloak clung to her skin, rainwater dripping from its edges onto the polished floor. Strands of silver-blonde hair stuck to her cheeks, tangled and damp, while her chest rose and fell in sharp, frantic breaths as though she had been running for miles without rest.Selene Vale had returned.Ten years had passed, yet she looked as though time had only refined her beauty further, sharpening it into something almost unreal. The kind of presence that didn’t just enter a room but rearranged it. People instinctively stepped aside, not out of command, but recognition—like something inside them st

The silence that followed Darius’s words was heavier than anything Lyra had ever endured.“I want to dissolve the Blood Oath.”The sentence did not fade. It lingered in the air, embedding itself into her thoughts, repeating itself in an endless loop until it no longer felt like words but like a final judgment.And strangely, she wasn’t surprised.Not truly.Some part of her had always known this moment was waiting at the edge of their story, ever since the night their marriage began under cold ceremony lights and heavier expectations. She had seen it even then—in the distant look in Darius Blackthorne’s eyes as he placed the ceremonial bond ring on her finger, a man fulfilling duty while his heart belonged elsewhere.This marriage had never been love. It had been obligation wrapped in silence.Duty toward the scandal that nearly destroyed two bloodlines. Duty toward the child that came from it. Duty toward the expectations of a Dominion that demanded order above all else.And now Sele