Chapter 96

Lyra

Fuck.

I swear to every celestial body up there, I thought that was it.

The end.

The dramatic, gasping, slow-motion fall of Lyra, aged eighteen, freshly mated, still sore from getting ruined by the only man who’s ever made me forget my name—and about to be strangled to death on her own damn floor by a mascara-smeared banshee with abandonment issues.

Honestly? I thought I was going to die.

Not later. Not metaphorically. Not “oh my god, I’m dying” like when Damon’s tongue is inside me and my soul is slipping out through my moans—I mean real death. No more orgasms. No more eye-rolls. No more “yes, Daddy” whispered into darkened rooms. Just… gone. A cautionary tale told in hushed whispers around pack fires.

She was hot. She was stubborn. She got choked out by a crazy ex.

That was almost me.

I swear I even started hearing that stupid, soft piano music they play in sad Omega films. I could feel my body giving in. My lungs we