Chapter17: Set In Stone.

TARA. I could hear voices from behind the door. Lucien's as well as a feminine one. It couldn't be her, I shook the thought off my head as my hand enveloped the door handle. He wouldn't hurt me that much.  And then I pushed it open to see the both of them, barely inches away from each other with his hand against her face. My heart dropped into my stomach and my hands clenched into a fist. It was her. Mia Harper. The name that haunted the walls, the name on everyone's lips—she was the one who got away, everyone knew. Her departure was what led the Alpha into a year-long solitude.  Everyone who knew Lucien knew how much he loved her. It wasn't a competition, it could never be. But when she left, that was when he finally looked at me. When I felt like Lucien really saw me and how foolish I was to think there was a world where we could be together. A world where he would finally love me after I loved him my whole life and we could raise a beautiful family—his father had all these aspiratio