Alpha's Regret After the Divorce by Christina novel Chapter 208

“What did you do with her… with the body?” I asked.

“I reported it as a rogue werewolf attack. Said I’d found the victim already dead and the attacker gone. I arranged for the test subject to receive medical care, anonymously.” Dad’s voice grew hollow. “I thought it was over. I was devastated, but I believed I’d prevented something worse.”

My father paused, his face darkening. “But I was wrong, so terribly wrong.”

“What do you mean?” My skin prickled with apprehension.

“Three days later, Dad said, his voice dropping to almost a whisper, “I was in my office, drowning in guilt and whiskey, when the door opened. And there she was–Lyra. Standing there, completely alive, smiling at me.”

I gasped, my hand flying to my mouth. “But that’s impossible. You said—”

“I said I’d checked her pulse. She was dead, Kira. I’m certain of it.” Dad’s eyes were wide with the memory. “But there she stood, without a scratch, looking at me with this… cold smile.”

“What did she say?” I asked, my mouth dry.

“She said, ‘You’ll pay for your betrayal, Derek.‘ Then she told me she would come back for me when I least expected it.” Dad’s hands gripped the hospital blanket tightly. “Before she left, she said something that haunted me for years: ‘Death is just a doorway for those who know how to walk through it.“”

I felt dizzy as the implications hit me. If what Dad was saying was true, then the explosion in the cave–the one that supposedly killed Lyra–might not have been the end of her at all.

“After she left,” Dad continued, “I went mad searching for answers. I dug through ancient werewolf texts, obscure historical records, anything that might explain how she survived.”

“And did you find something?” I asked, dreading the answer.

Dad nodded grimly. “In the oldest texts, I found references to a forbidden ritual. Soul transference–a way for powerful practitioners to move their consciousness from one body to another upon death.”

My blood ran cold. “You’re saying Lyra could… take over someone else’s body?”

“The ritual requires preparation. The practitioner must have a chosen vessel, someone with a weakened will or consciousness. The texts described it as a temporary solution–the borrowed body would eventually begin to transform, taking on aspects of the practitioner’s original appearance,”

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