Chapter Fifty Two
The following week, I made a very big, important decision in my heart. I was completely tired of feeling like a fragile, helpless outsider in this place. I was tired of being treated like a weak link who always needed constant protection from every single threat around the compound. If I was truly going to stay in this wild, dangerous world with Stone, I needed to become significantly stronger than I was. I did not just need to do it for him or to make him proud; I needed to do it entirely for myself so I could survive.
Lexa became my absolute anchor during this difficult time. Every single morning after we finished eating breakfast in the kitchen, while Stone was locked away inside the chapel room for Church meetings or handling heavy club business with the old guard,
