Chapter 5: Gala aftermath…

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Lyla

“So pathetic,” someone sneered from the crowd.

“Did she think she could seduce the Lycan Leader with that display?” another voice mocked.

The tears that stung my eyes were equal parts from the physical pain of being dropped and the mortification of being the centre of attention for all the wrong reasons.

The embarrassment was unbearable too.

Amidst the chaos, Nathan, dropped to his knees beside me, offering me his hands.

“Lyla, are you okay?” he asked.

I couldn’t bring myself to answer, so I nodded absently, my eyes still straying to the door Ramsey had disappeared.

The memory of his burning gaze is still in my head.

Nathan gently lifted me and guided me to a quiet corner.

“You shouldn’t be here like this,” he murmured.

“It’s dangerous.

“Well, I don’t make the rules,” I offered him a smile “My dad insisted I must come.

I had no choice.

People were still talking, pointing at me and laughing but for the first time, I didn’t care because in that fleeting moment with Alpha Ramsey, I had felt something that made all the pain, all the humiliation, seem almost bearable.

“But… thank you,” I mumbled.

I glanced around me, my cheeks still flushed with shame “I’m sorry… for being such a misfit.

You’re right, I shouldn’t have come.

Nathan’s grip tightened around my arm, his voice firm but kind.

“Stop apologizing, Lyla.

None of this is your fault,” his gaze flickered briefly to the direction Ramsey had gone, his jaw clenched.

“That man… he’s a jerk.

Don’t let him or anyone else make you feel like you’re less than what you are.

I nodded, swallowing back the lump in my throat as I offered him another strained smile.

Nathan was one of the few people in my life who didn’t look at me like I was broken.

the wolfless girl with uncontrollable pheromones but as the friend he’d grown up with, the one

next in line as an Alpha since my dad had no male child and the only one that has managed to keep in touch with me since I left Blue Ridge

did you come back?”

“A week ago.

had known you were around…” he trailed off with a soft sigh “Let

be here

ride back to Blue Ridge

with thoughts of

I’d brought nothing

I had no idea how bad it

in front of our house, his hand lingering on

can come in with you and explain the

I shook my head

I’ll be fine by

only need to endure

something else but nodded “Fine,

I forced a smile.

“I’ll be fine.

Thanks again, Nathan.

,”.

let myself out of his car

front door swung open and I froze as my father’s furious face

the steps, his eyes

mother followed closely behind; her lips twisted into a

father roared, grabbing my arm roughly, yanking

grip dug into my

you have any idea

voice

to act like a proper daughter for one night! Instead, you go and humiliate us in front of everyone

those vicious Alpha wives? Do you want your father

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to speak, to defend myself but my father’s slap landed across my cheeks

back, my vision blurring with

our entire family down with you?”

never have birthed

wolfless deviant who brings nothing

my fault!” I shouted, tears running from my eyes and nostrils now “I didn’t ask

was all your

of your perfect family, why didn’t you send your

Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!

across my cheeks in successions, darkening

you talk back at me? Did staying with those humans make you

turned to

father? Will you hit me again? Do you know it’s a punishable crime to hit your children in the human world? Anyways, I won’t fight this… go ahead and finish what

father pause… the fight

the first time I was speaking back but I think it was long

case, I might as

me hard, sending

Get out of my sight!” he bellowed “You don’t deserve to be

my name off the family register while you’re at it, too,” I called back behind my shoulder as I

the door in my face, my mother sneered, crossing

“Stay outside tonight.

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