Chapter 53: Chapter 53: No One Ever Knew Her

Author’s POV ~

Silence crashed over them like a tidal wave.

It wasn’t the kind of silence that settled softly or allowed breath to return—it was the kind that suffocated. That crushed ribs and stole air and made hearts forget how to beat.

No one moved or spoke. Not even Lucian dared to groan beneath the dagger pressed into his chest. Because the words she had just unleashed were not something that could be brushed off. They weren’t rage-fueled accusations or delusions born of pain.

They were the truth.

And that truth now hung in the room like a ghost, staring each of them down, refusing to be unseen.

She wasn’t his daughter.

She wasn’t Eirik Moonveil’s child.

She was his victim.

Kael staggered back, his breath hitching so violently it almost sounded like a choke. Luca stared at her like he had never seen her before, like she had become a stranger in the span of seconds, and not because she had changed—but because they had never truly known her to begin with.

And Aeron—dear gods, Aeron looked like the world had just split open beneath his feet. His shoulders sank, his jaw slack, as if everything he believed in had just been set on fire and left to rot in the ashes.

his temple, fingers trembling. "That... that can’t be... You were there. At the manor. You lived.

in, her voice stripped of emotion now. Hollow. Like even her anger had burned

blow could have. Because now they


Now they remembered.

region. They had all known of it. Had whispered about the madness of the Alpha, how he had lost control, and how he had turned feral after

new lens. Not just a tragic story passed down through

and her mother

invaders, but by the

But why?

seed of doubt

had no love to give. He wasn’t the kind to spare life out of pity. He didn’t take in strays. He didn’t raise other men’s children. He barely had enough heart to

raise

his haze, he could feel the tremble of something darker beginning to coil in his chest. Something that sounded too

harder. "She tried to run. She tried to protect me. And he... he snapped her neck

Aeron closed his eyes.

a small girl covered in her mother’s blood, shaking in a corner while the beast who had done it stood above her...


But what if she was simply a girl left behind by a man who needed

And suddenly everything twisted.

a secret. Why was she hidden all her life

wasn’t Eirik’s daughter. She was

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