The Beta's Rejected Daughter (Fiona) novel Chapter 11

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She was actually alive, not broken, not trembling and definitely not lost in the forest with torn clothes and tear–stained cheeks as I thought.

No. Not at all.

She sat at a table with Raina, laughing, and she was glowing like a billionaire’s daughter.

Dressed in silver, her brown hair cascading like a waterfall and her skin radiant with a beauty I had never noticed… or maybe never allowed myself to see.

She even had a personal guard beside her.

My jaw clenched, and I didn’t understand the feeling punching through my ribs.

Relief?

Shock?

Something else like shame?

But it hit hard. So hard I dropped my glass with a loud clink.

Raina looked up first and saw me, then tapped Fiona, gesturing toward me.

She turned slowly and gracefully, following Raina’s direction.

Damn… Her eyes were bright and sparkling, unlike how dim and dull they were before,

Those shimmering blue eyes met mine, and I couldn’t believe my eyes. The same Fiona I mocked, ignored, and dismissed now looked like someone the moon itself bowed to. My lips parted, and a whisper escaped before I could stop it.

“Fiona…”

But she didn’t smile.

She didn’t flinch.

She didn’t look afraid or fragile or small.

Instead, she looked… powerful, like a queen surrounded by her warriors. It was then the cold truth slid into my veins like ice.

My sister had moved on and found a world that welcomed her. A world that didn’t include me

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My heartbeat kicked hard, and I saw how the personal guard noticed my stare and shifted, subtly protective.

Fiona raised a brow; the smallest smirk touched her lips. As if to say:

“Look at me. I don’t need you all anymore.”

And damn it-

I couldn’t look away.

“Damon.”

A familiar voice snapped me out of the trance, and I turned briefly to see Jake, my brother, as he strode into the bar, shrugging off his jacket, hair tousled like he’d rushed here. My gaze went back to Fiona.

“There you are,” he said with a narrowed gaze. “Father’s been asking… Why the hell did off without telling-”

His sentence died because he followed my line of sight, and it went straight to her.

For a second, he didn’t breathe. “That’s…” His voice cracked. “Fiona?”

I swallowed hard, barely managing a nod.

you run

Jake stepped closer, unblinking as he stared with mouth agape. We both watched in shock and disbelief.

He whispered, “She wasn’t supposed to look like that.”

No.

None of us expected this.

We expected a broken girl in rags. Someone desperate and thin, angry or pitiful or begging.

But the woman glowing under those golden lights and laughing beside Raina was different entirely.

Dressed in silver silk with a personal guard standing like a knight at her side, she looked untouchable, chosen and transformed.

“She even laughs,” Jake muttered, as if the sight was painful. “In the morning, Father said she’d come crawling back by now.”

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My jaw tightened. “She didn’t crawl anywhere.”

We watched in silence.

There was no trace of the girl who tripped over words, stuttered in fear, or begged us to see her.

Her posture alone screamed royalty–straight spine, relaxed shoulders, chin high, surrounded by luxury like she’d been born for it.

“Damon,” Jake whispered, “what… what happened to her?”

I shook my head slowly. “I don’t know. But we were wrong.”

“We were,” he admitted, voice dropping low. “Moon Goddess… we really were.”

Fiona suddenly leaned close to Raina, laughing again, this time brighter, freer. They clinked glasses, the kind of sound you heard from people who had finally escaped hell.

Then she stood up, her body moving rhythmically to the music in the background.

Jake swallowed thickly. “She… she looks happy.”

“Happy. Without us. Without home. She saw me and didn’t even act like she could recognise me. Just a smirk.”

A sting sparked in my chest. Guilt? Shame? Jealousy? Regret? I didn’t know.

I only knew one thing:

Fiona had really moved on.

“Do

you think she’ll come back?” Jake asked, barely above a whisper.

I exhaled. “Look at her. Does she look like who would ever return?”

We both stepped closer and sat on a chair that was close to the floor while she danced with Raina excitedly.

She was surrounded by wealth, warmth, security and I could tell her dress alone cost more than anything she ever owned back home.

Her guard watched her like she was a priceless treasure.

“Jake… she’s gone.”

He didn’t reply. Didn’t breathe.

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Just stared at our sister like he was seeing her for the first time.

And for the first time, I realized Fiona didn’t lose a family.

We did.

Jake’s jaw tightened. “I want to talk to her.”

“No.” My voice came out sharp. “Not yet.”

Because her guard had been watching us both for the last sixty seconds.

Because Fiona’s eyes had shifted away, uninterested, unbothered.

Because if we approached her now, she would… Ignore us. Reject us. Humiliate us.

Jake stepped back, running a hand through his hair. “She changed.”

I nodded. “Completely.”

“And we…” His voice cracked. “We didn’t choose her and were blind.”

“Yes we chose Lydia.”

I swallowed hard, staring at the woman who used to be my little sister. Her eyes no longer searched for us. Her shoulders no longer hunched in fear and she had no sadness left in her.

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