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Chapter 67 - Ethan’s Burden

Ethan's POV

I dragged Lila out of the training field, ignoring the murmurs of the warriors and the stares of the spectators. Every instinct in me wanted to bend down, to help Soraya to her feet—to steady her trembling body—but that would have been weakness. A display of mercy in front of them would have shattered every ounce of the Alpha image I had fought so long to reclaim.

The metallic clatter of the fallen weapons still echoed faintly behind us as I shoved Lila into the buggy and slammed the door. She shot me a glare sharp enough to cut through steel.

"You… you left me!" she barked, her voice high with fury, fingers gripping the edge of her seat as I drove. "You marked Soraya! That wasn't the plan, Ethan! You were supposed to keep her… use her for the sacrifice… so we could be free! But you… you did something else! You… you chose her!"

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