All Chapters of Reborn: The Daughter They Regret Losing: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Layla Nobody said anything. They hadn't expected this. In the three months since they'd brought me home, the Layla they knew had kept her head down, her voice soft, her hands folded in her lap. That Layla did as she was told. That Layla would have said yes. "I refuse," I said again, slower, so t

Layla The last time I saw those eyes, I was dying. The memory hit before I could stop it. A bed that smelled like smoke and medicine. My body too broken to lift my own hand. And Valerius, sitting at the edge of the mattress, watching me with that same dark, unreadable gaze. "You won't be alone

Layla The silence after my words had weight. I watched it move through the room. Kaelen's jaw went tight. Cole half-rose from his seat with his mouth open. Mother's hand froze on Aurora's shoulder, and Father, who'd been mid-fury about me sneaking out, seemed to have forgotten his own accusation

Third Person After Kaelen and Layla left, the Thorne household did not settle. If anything, it grew louder. "She looked at me like I was a stranger." Sienna Thorne stood by the window, arms folded, rubbing her elbows. "Not angry. Not hurt. Just... tired of me." That isn't how a daughter looks at

Third PersonCole checked his watch for the fourth time.They'd been standing at the Pack's formal reception point for over an hour — he, Aurora, and a half-dozen officials arranged in their best clothes. The afternoon sun had turned from pleasant to punishing.He kept replaying the morning. Layla and the strange woman moving in sync, slipping past the guards like it was a game they'd played since childhood. The meek girl who flinched at raised voices was gone.And the woman on the motorcycle. Covered in road grime, tangled hair. She'd looked at him the way wolves looked at sheep.But the motorcycle itself nagged at him. Something about its lines reminded him of a model he'd seen once in a collector's magazine. Only three made worldwide."Her friend's motorcycle was interesting," he said, testing.Aurora barely glanced up. "If it were really expensive, she wouldn't let it get covered in mud. It's probably a knockoff. And since when does Layla know anyone with money?"Cole chewed on tha