Liam
Ever since I met that woman at the hospital—the one who looked me in the eye and called me a deadbeat Alpha—I haven’t known peace.
Her words dug deeper than I expected. Maybe because they were true. Maybe because, for the first time in a long time, someone wasn’t afraid to say what Lyra must have been screaming in her chest all along.
I’ve thought about that woman every damn hour since. The look in her eyes. The grief in her voice. The quiet rage beneath it all.
She had shaken something loose in me.
I’d spent years burying questions that deserved answers. Years hiding behind what I thought I knew. I called myself a leader. A protector. A mate.
But when I should’ve protected the one person who needed me most I failed.
But not anymore.
If I have to rip every rotten lie out of th
