Chapter 23

Lily POV

I decided to take a stroll after staying at home all day doing nothing.

I found myself wandering through the pack, my mind a tangle of conflicting emotions. The events of the past few days had left me feeling empty, drifting in a sea of uncertainty and I found myself missing home.

Missing waking up every morning and being on my father’s and sister's beck and call, missing the few friends I had in the pack and also Lucius. Despite the kindness I’d been shown by Kai’s pack, I couldn’t shake the lingering feelings of loss and loneliness that clung to me like a second skin.

My thoughts drifted again to Lucius, who was the only person who had shown me genuine care and affection in the past years. Despite it turning sour in the end, I still believed that during those years we were together, there was a part of Lucas that sincerely loved me and maybe he still loved me.

The memory of the warning from him before I left still gnawed at me. Had he known something about my father’s and s