Lyra's POVJust like Devlin wanted, I walked behind them, with my head bent and my confidence stolen away from me.But the thing is, something cannot be taken from you when you never once had it.It was funny how this day turned out to be. If I had known, I would have never left my room this morning. I would've refused to help them clean up because that was what led to this quagmire that I was in.I have lost my freedom and I was being taken as a slave, even worse, as Asher's slave.I knew he wasn't as terrible as he made himself out to be but I knew the hatred burning in him towards me could morph him into something else, something extremely unrecognizable.I had nothing to say and no tears to cry anymore. I couldn't even rely on my mother to rescue me because she wouldn't. She would sell me off to Asher in return for a smile from him.I was unimportant to her and so she wouldn't think twice about selling me off.I shuddered lightly, I had been crying for a while now and my body was
Lyra's POVI could see in her eyes the shock that she couldn't even try to hide. She was looking at me like I had said something that I shouldn't have, like I was making up stories that were too dangerous.But the fright and surprise in her eyes were too much to be ignored, I had never seen her like that. She was a cruel mother to me and she didn't even try to hide that she didn't care about me. I have seen several parts of her the world was blinded to, I have seen her in differents lights, I had tried to understand why a mother would ever treat her daughter that way, sometimes, I believed that I was a mistake that I was nothing more than the thing she looked upon one day and hated and regretted so intensely.I had seen her angry, hungry, happy even though it was on rare occasions, I have seen parts of her that nobody on this earth knew about.However, the expression on her face was new and I couldn't find the right word to describe it. It looked like she was surprised and at the same
Asher's POV.After I ensured for the nth time that everything needed for the marking ceremony on my part was perfectly arranged and in order just like Devlin's mother had asked for, I decided to go on a search to find Devlin.I hated how we stopped talking, we would have cleared the air and stopped the stupid fight, but her mother had interrupted us and it would've been quite rude if I had taken Devlin away by myself.Her mother had nothing against me, it pleased her that I was the aloha of my pack and she obviously wouldn't want her daughter to grow up into a woman that married a man of lesser I status than she was, if anything, she was supposed to go higher.I was lucky, other than the fact that she was my mate, I was also the alpha of my pack and I had won the contest for Devlin's heart. I knew her mother would obviously approve of me from day one but I couldn't abuse it. I still needed to know my place.I walked around the silver moon pack for a while hoping to find Devlin so I co
Asher's POVI looked at her, I was beyond stunned by her words. It was a grievous assumption she was making. After deceiving me into sleeping with her, I could hardly believe she would go ahead and call herself my mate.I was furious. I couldn't believe that this was someone I had felt pity for a few minutes ago, it was shocking that she could say something like that.I never thought of the possibility of her harboring such ideas in her head. But as I began to think further, I finally understood her only goal for deceiving me. She wanted power.Power she thought I could offer her when it was next to impossible, my mate was Devlin and this girl wanted more than she was getting. She was probably envious of Devlin and so wanted to have Devlin's life. She wanted everything that Devlin owned and that included me.I couldn't even look at her. I was honestly disgusted at how someone could possibly be thinking this way. What could she probably be thinking?She must've thought she had every
Lyra's POVAsher looked completely shocked as I said those words. To be honest, I wasn't planning on dropping itnon him like this, I wamted more proof because if I didn't bring something solid he would think of me as a crazy person whonwas obsessed with him.I was obsessed with him but it wasn't up to me. I wasn't the one who weaved our destinies. He became my mate all of a sudden and it was too much for me to bare. Everything was too much for me to bear but I had nothing else to do but toncarry the weight of having a mate who was mated to someone else.As those words left my mouth I was instantly filled with regret. I wantedngo take it all back but unfortunately, it was out there now. I only knew he waa my mate but I had no idea if i was his mate, there was nothing tl orove my claim and of course he woukd think i was delirious and very stupid.He woukd be right if he thought so. I was ashamrd at how desperate I seemed. I should've just dropped jt. I knew he would never accept me as
Lyra's POVWhen my butt collided with the earth, I was suddenly pushed into reality. It dawned on me like never before that Asher would never believe my words, Asher would never see me as a human, much less his mate. He was disgusted at the sight of me and everything about me irks him.I saw it in his eyes as he looked at me, he didn't even try to help me up, instead he just stared at me like falling down was my fault. Like I was the one who had brought it all on my head.Maybe I really was at fault. I had done something so stupid, I had opened my mouth and poured out the truth I was keeping to myself, to Asher who didn't care about me. Asher who blamed me for everything.I was truthfully stupid.It was my fault. I had kept to myself, if i had walked away from him, or even kept my mouth shut and just took the rare pity he was offering me, maybe none of this could've happened.Maybe my life wouldn't be the shitshow it was now.Asher was standing before me, and he looked at me with a w
Lyra's POVSuddenly a hand slapped me across the face, the impact almost made me fall to the ground if Kaden hadn't been holding me.I could hardly begin to understand anything, to process anything. All that I felt was the stinging pain on my cheek and in less than three seconds, my hair was being pulled and I was suddenly tossed to the ground.I was shocked, I had been treated horribly before but never had I been so rough handled in my life. From one stinging pain to another.I was tossed to the ground and I immediately scurried to my feet and looked around.The person who had treated me so badly was Kaden's mother.I saw it coming, I knew what she could do, there were rumors flowing around the whole place that she was a bitter person, that she hated Asher so much and that hatred had consumed her and turned her into the monster she was.And not just that, she loved her son to a fault. She couldn't see anything wrong with her son, he was never at fault to her and she would stand with
Just like everyone else who was watching the whole interaction between Kaden's mother and Asher, I was equally stunned by what Asher was saying. He had said he wanted to punish Kaden's mother and it was something that had never been done before. Asher was the alpha but Kaden's mother was his stepmother before he became the alpha and he owed her that respect but looking at the two of them and how they spoke to one another, there didn't seem to exist any form of respect or even the slightest acknowledgement.Asher was frowning at Kaden's mother. He was way taller than she was and from how they stood facing each other, Asher waa kike a tower hovering above her.I panicked, I feared that something bad was going to happen and I couldn't help but blame myself. Maybe if I had told Kaden that I wasn't comfortable talking to him, he could've backed away, but I didn't.I could've been more plain and outright to him but I wasn't and that is why he would grab my hand and harass me. It was nobody