Chapter 243: Who Is That
Olivia’s POV
For hours, I remained locked in my room while my so-called funeral rites were taking place outside. This time, I couldn’t bring myself to watch.
I didn’t want to see it.
Couldn’t stand to see hundreds of people mourning me... saying goodbye to a girl who was still breathing.
Who was still here.
And the question that haunted me most—whose body were they burying?
Whose lifeless form were they lowering into the ground while crying over me?
How had Alpha Damien pulled it off?
Who was this man? How could he manipulate reality so perfectly—down to the last detail?
I paced the floor, back and forth, my heart thundering in my chest. My mind kept returning to the conversation we had earlier.
He told me my mother had killed Alpha Gabriel’s mother.
That’s why they wanted me dead.
But when I asked more—how that happened, why my mother would do such a thing—he refused to speak. Said that was all I needed to know.
I hated that.
I hated secrets.
I sighed and sat back on the edge of the bed, staring blankly at the wall as my thoughts wandered... and landed on Lennox.
When we kissed I could feel his hesitation for but also his desire for me... not as Olivia but as Rebecca. It made me wonder if I was really gone and this Rebecca was real—Does that mean he could’ve kissed her—on the very day of my funeral?
I shook my head violently, pushing the thought away. It hurt too much to linger on it.
Then suddenly I heard it.
Faint.
Soft.
Floating through the air.
A song.
One of my favorite songs. Hero by Mariah Carey
My breath hitched.
Why... why was it playing?
I jumped to my feet and rushed toward the sound, my heart pounding.
reached
when I stepped outside the
garden was full of
omegas—everyone stood gathered around a
breath coming in shallow gasps,
A glass casket.
And inside...
I froze.
inside me stopped
inside the casket,
they
turns to bow, whisper farewells, or leave a single white rose on
feet moved on their
of every stare, every whispered prayer. But they didn’t see me. Not as
I was
my gaze fell on the
them spoke. All had tears
the railing so
blinking fast, his shoulders
his jaw was clenched, face pale, tears silently trailing down his
My heart shattered.
still... until I reached
And then—I gasped.
Loud.
My knees buckled.
headless body—a body that looked
Same build.
Same hands.
body...
And goodness—
looked just
The face.
The hair.
Everything.
like staring at a twisted,
dizzy, bile rising
no
How is this possible?
body swayed,
as I was about to hit
Held me.
came the deep, calming voice of
suddenly there, holding me against
I couldn’t speak.
Couldn’t breathe.
Couldn’t think.
my mind—Who the
guided me away from the casket and
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