Chapter 190
The moment Cassia walked out of the ward, the world seemed to fall utterly silent. All she could hear was the frantic beating of her own heart…loud, uneven, and threatening to tear through her chest.
Tears welled in her eyes as she staggered down the hallway toward her office. Every step felt heavier than the last, her limbs trembling under the weight of grief. When she reached the door she pushed it open with shaky hands, stepped inside, and let it close behind her. Then she slid down against it until she was sitting on the floor, her back pressed to the wood.
“She died from an overdose of the cure,” she whispered, her voice cracking. “I killed my mother. I killed her…”
The words tore out of her like broken glass. Over and over, she repeated them, each one cutting deeper than the last until the dam broke. Hot tears streamed down her cheeks as her body began to tremble violently.
“I killed my mother!” she whispered again, her voice raw, echoing through the small room. “I killed her!”
The tears she had fought to hold back finally burst free. Her shoulders shook as quiet sobs turned into wretched cries. Pain clawed through her chest, sharp and suffocating. When she thought she could finally breathe again….when she believed everything would finally be okay…everything had fallen apart in the cruelest way.
Her family was supposed to be whole again. Her mother alive and healed. Happiness finally within reach. And now, all of it had been ripped away.
She clutched her head between her palms, pressing her fingers into her temples as if she could squeeze the pain out. Her mind flashed to those last moments with her mother-Evenly’s fragile voice, her faint smile, the plea for her to stay. Cassia had walked away saying she would be back and just needed to ge her phone. She shouldn’t have left. If she had stayed, maybe… maybe her mother would still be alive.
A strangled sound escaped her throat as her chest tightened painfully. She bit down hard on her lower lip, tasting blood. Her hands shook uncontrollably, her breaths coming fast and uneven
“I didn’t even get to say goodbye to my mom,” she whispered, her voice breaking. “I didn’t get to introduce Arthur to her…. or Damien… She didn’t even get the chance to meet Seraphina…”
Her words dissolved into sobs. She pressed her palm against her mouth to muffle the cries that tore out of her chest. “It hurts… it hurts so much…”
Images flashed in her mind-Evenly’s weak but joyful smile, her soft laugh, the tears in her eyes when she realized her daughter had survived. Cassia remembered that moment so vivilly that it almost felt like she could still hear her voice.
Now, that voice was gone forever.
“Mom… why?” she cried, her whole body shaking. “You didn’t even say goodbye…”
Grief clawed at her throat, and her vision blurred. Her breathing grew faster, harsher. A low growl escaped her lips as something deep inside her stirred….wild, ancient, uncontrollable Her wolf pushed against her chest, desperate to break free.
Cassia gasped. Her hands trembled violently as she felt her claw beginning to extend, slowly tearing through her skin. Her eyes flickered from emerald to blood-red, then back again. Fang pushed against her gums as a hot, burning sensation spread through her veins.
It was happening again-the same terrifying surge she had felt at night in the rain with Aiden, when her control had slipped. But this time, it was stronger… darker.
She clenched her jaw, struggling to breathe. “No… not now…” she whispered through her teeth. The air around her vibrated with energy. She could feel the raw power crawling beneath herkin, threatening to consume her.
She pushed herself up from the floor, stumbled toward the door and yanked it open. Without thinking, she ran.
Her heels clicked rapidly on the tile floors as she stormed through the corridors and out into the opening. She reached her car, threw the door open, and climbed in, gripping the steering wheel so tightly her knuckles turned white. Her claws were fully out now…sharp, glinting in the dim light.
Inside, Alpha Alaric sat beside his wife, Luna Donna. Her hand rested in his, her smile bright after weeks of recovery. She was finally healed…thanks to Amelia’s cure.
Alaric’s lips curved into a faint smirk as he glanced out the window. Finally, everything was falling into place. With Donna healthy again, he could focus on his real plan…erasing Amelia and her family completely this time. No witnesses. No mistakes.
But the smirk vanished when that howl ripped through the nigh It was distant, yet it rattled the car to its core. Even the driver gasped, his hands gripping the wheel tightly.
“What was that?” Donna whispered, her eyes wide as she turned her mate.
Alaric didn’t answer. His gaze was locked on the horizon, his mit spinning. That how it was too powerful, too commanding. No ordinary Alpha possessed such strength.
His heartbeat quickened. He’d only heard a howl like that once fore.. years ago, on the night she died.
A chill ran down his spine. “It can’t be…” he muttered under his cath
But deep inside, fear began to gnaw at him. Because the sound at had just shaken the night the sound that made the trees quiver and the earth tremble…wasn’t just any howl.
It was the howl of the true Alpha.
And she was supposed to be dead.

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