Novel & Cerita Choose Me Or Lose Me

My everything. "Choose, Delilah. Me or the book."

“But will you leave him? That is the question.” The dark cracked suddenly, light spilling in like a tear in the void. Carson’s voice again, louder this time, desperate, shaking. “Maeve! Do not leave me. Do not give up!” My knees buckled. “I am here. I am trying.” The shadows thickened, claws dragging me backward. Alia and Johan stood side by side, their voices entwined. “Choose,” they whispered. “Step into the darkness… or fight your way back to him. But know this — either way, you will lose.”

He trailed off. "What? Sage, tell me." He hesitated a little bit, "It means you have a choice. One last chance before the Blood Moon decides for you." A shiver ran through me. Choose him… or lose everything. The words kept echoing in my head. "What if I don’t choose?" I whispered. Sage didn’t answer right away. "Then we both lose." And for the first time since rejecting Sage, I wonder if I made the wrong one. After talking, we both decided to go back to sleep.

Something has to give before I lose either my pack or my mate. Or maybe I've already chosen. I just pray the cost of that choice won't destroy us all.

❤THEME SONG OF THIS CHAPTER ❤ ❤Lose You To Love Me Song by Selena Gomez❤ ❤❤You promised the world and I fell for it I put you first and you adored it Set fires to my forest And you let it burn Sang off key in my chorus 'Cause it wasn't yours I saw the signs and I ignored it Rose colored glasses all distorted Set fire to my purpose And I let it burn You got off on the hurtin'

“I have a plan in mind, and I need you to trust me.” He narrowed his eyes slightly. “What kind of plan?” “I won’t let them know I’ve discovered their betrayal. Not yet,” I said, my voice low and resolute. “But that doesn’t mean I’m going to stay quiet. Starting today, everything I do is preparation for their downfall.” I stepped closer, my gaze unwavering. “I’ll rise again. I’ll be recognized. And when that happens, those two—” I didn’t even need to say their names “—they’ll fall. They’ll kneel before me.”

Looked up. Didn't recognize the girl in the mirror. Hair? Wrecked. Skin? Dull. Eyes? Puffy and red. I didn't look like this this morning. Guess you really can lose yourself for love. I'd loved Jacob for years. With the wedding coming up, I thought we'd finally made it. Didn't see it was already falling apart. I took a deep breath, tried to shut down the spiral, and grabbed my phone. [Short one groom for this wedding. Anyone want the job?]

“Now.” The pressure in the room became unbearable. Sarah’s lungs felt crushed. She fought harder against the ropes, her teeth gnashing against the tape. Her body shook with the desperate need to make her voice heard. James’s face crumbled. He ran a hand over his head, his voice barely holding together. “Take me instead. Take my life if it will save them.” The leader chuckled darkly. “You want to die for them? Easy words. But that is not the game. One must go free. The other does not. Choose.”

"I'm expanding. There's a difference. You taught me that—observation, performance, the analysis of want. Now I'm using it for myself. You can let me go, or you can lose me completely. Those are the options." Silence. The kitchen clock ticked. Somewhere in the house, a pipe expanded or contracted, the sound of a structure adjusting to temperature. "You'll get hurt," Dante said finally. "Probably." "You'll want him and he'll leave, or you'll want him and you'll lose yourself, or—"

“And if you accept… you lose yourself.” The door closed behind him. My mother breathed shakily. I stared at the dress. White. Gold. Empty. And I wondered which loss would kill me first. As I stood alone, my phone buzzed with a single message from an unknown number: “Choose wrong, and I expose him.”