Chapter 150

EVELYN’S POV They say fate always favours the brave. However, in my experience, fate often favours the patient. And I… had been very patient with my goal. Days turned into weeks. Weeks into a maddening game of hide-and-seek. Dominic’s guards were loyal, James never left Laura’s side, and Olivia? She was practically tethered to Dominic’s shadow. I watched them fall into a rhythm I once craved. A family. Laughing, healing, thriving. Everything that I wanted now belonged to her. It made my stomach twist. Now the pack also barely spared me a glance unless it was laced with suspicion, coated in polite contempt. Even the ones who once swore loyalty to me—the guards I trained, the Lunas I stood beside in ceremonies, the pack members I guided—had turned their backs. Their eyes slid past me like I was nothing. A shadow. A ghost. Especially after that banquet, someone leaked the news that I was the one responsible for everything that’s been going wrong with the pack. Grace, too, once my most tru