Mated to the Alpha CEO
She just had to find them.
“I am not Clara,” she said to the empty air. “I am not my mother. I am not the sum of everyone I’ve lost. I am Lira, Hidden Luna of the combined territories, and I did not come this far to be broken by a shadow.”
She reached for her light. Not the desperate, flaring thing she used in battle — the quiet warmth, the steady pulse that had lived beneath her heart since birth. The light that was not a weapon but a promise. She let it fill her, not pushing back the darkness but simply existing alongside it, refusing to be consumed.