Chapter 28
“What’s the matter, Sienna?” I whispered. “Too weak to fight back? Or are you realizing that every word that I am telling you is nothing more than the truth that everyone is afraid to show you.”
Her head turned, just a fraction, but enough for me to see the steel in her gaze. And then, without warning, she moved. I put my finger on her shoulder, wanting to turn her to face me, and that was when she reacted for the first time.
Her hand shot out, and before I could react, I was shoved back against the wall. The impact stole the breath from my lungs, and I stared at her, wide–eyed and stunned.
“Touch me again, and I’ll make you regret it,” she said, her voice low and calm, but threaded with danger.
I let out a laugh, but it wavered. “You think you can threaten me? You, a low ranking Omega, think that you can stand against me?”
“I don’t need to threaten you,” she replied. “You’re already afraid. That’s why you’re lashing out. You’re scared because you know that no matter what you do, you’ll never have what I have.”
A sharp sting flared in my chest, and I gritted my teeth. “And what exactly do you think you have, Omega? What do you think that you can do to scare me?”
She stepped closer, closing the distance between us. I could see the exhaustion in her eyes, the shadows beneath them, but there
was also a fire that hadn’t been there before.
“I have her,” she said, nodding toward the incubator. “And as much as you want to, you can’t change that. You can’t take away the fact that she is my daughter. And I believe that you know, more than anything that just as she is mine, she is Damon’s,”
I opened my mouth to retort, but a new voice cut through the tension.
“What is going on here?”
Damon’s figure loomed in the doorway, his expression a mixture of confusion and anger. His green eyes darted between us, taking in my position against the wall and Sienna’s deflant stance.
“Lysandra,” he said, his voice edged with warning. “What are you doing?”
I straightened, brushing invisible dust from my sleeve as I forced a smile. “I was initially coming to say goodbye. But there has been a minor change in my plans.”
Damon’s brows drew together. “Change in your plans?”
“Yes,” I said, my voice sweet. “I was leaving. But now I think I’ll stay.”
Sienna’s expression tightened, and I felt a surge of satisfaction at the flicker of uncertainty in her eyes.
Damon took a step forward, his focus shifting entirely to me. “Lysandra, this is not a game for you to be playing right now. You
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are the one who wanted to leave, and though I told you not to, you didn’t want to listen.”
I tilted my head, letting my smile falter just enough to play the victim. “Oh, I understand. You want me gone so you can play house with her. So you can pretend this is all normal”
“Lysandra…”
“No,” I said firmly, dropping the pretense. “I’m staying. If you want to keep your Omega and your little bastard child, fine. But I’m not leaving.”
Silence wrapped around us, thick and suffocating. Damon’s jaw clenched, his fingers curling into fists at his sides.
Sienna didn’t move. She remained standing by the window, but the strength in her posture hadn’t wavered. She wasn’t the weak, broken girl I had expected. She was something else. Something I wasn’t sure I could break.
But I would try.
I turned on my heel, retrieving my luggage as I made my way back down the hallway.
This wasn’t over.
Not by a long shot.
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