All Chapters of After My False Death, My Alpha Lost Everything: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

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Chapter 1

“Tessa, help me arrange a false death.”The moment the call connected, I got straight to the point.Tessa fell silent. “What happened?”I lowered my eyes to the photos still glowing on my screen.In them, Cassian was half-naked, with bite marks across his neck. The one taking the photo had stood close enough to make sure I would see everything.“I don’t want this anymore,” I said. “In five days, I’m leaving with the pup.”Tessa’s voice changed at once. “Have you thought this through? The mate bond is still there. If he wants to find you, he will.”“So I need the witch’s draught too,” I said. “I want the link severed.”She was quiet for a moment, then said, “That draught doesn’t just cut the bond. It hurts. Once it starts working, it’ll feel like the link is being torn out of you little by little.”“I know.”“And the pup?”“The pup comes with me. He’ll never know he has one.”Tessa let out a long breath. “All right. I’ll handle it. Five days from now, a wreck on the mountain road. Fire.

Chapter 2

It was late when Cassian finally came home.He had changed into the spare shirt he kept at the pack academy. There was no scent of alcohol on him.I was in the sitting room putting away a stack of books when he came up behind me and wrapped his arms around my waist.“You waited up for me?”His tone was warm, as if nothing had happened.“Sorry. Something came up at the pack academy.”Then he placed a small box in front of me.“I brought you something on the way back. The stall keeper said you’d like it.”It was a little moon-wolf carving, the one I had stopped to look at the last time we passed the market.He smiled when he saw where my eyes landed.“When I have time, I’ll get a cabinet made for these. Otherwise, once the pup is older, everything you like will end up all over the floor.”At the mention of the pup, heat rushed behind my eyes.“By the way, what did the healer say today?” He looked at me more closely. “Was it confirmed?”“No. The first test was wrong.”He let out the faint

Chapter 3

“Is that Lyra?”Selene rose before Cassian could stop her. She limped toward me with a soft smile.“So this is our first proper meeting,” she said. “Cassian talks about you often. We really do look a little alike, don’t we? What a strange kind of fate.”She stopped in front of me and held out her hand.“I’m Selene. You’ve heard my name, I’m sure.”Then she lowered her voice just enough for me alone.“Did you like the photos?”I looked at her, then smiled faintly.“If you like him that much,” I said, “you can keep him.”Her expression shifted for the briefest moment.I moved to step past her, but she caught my wrist and let out a small gasp, as if I had hurt her.Cassian was beside her at once.“Selene?”He steadied her first, then looked at me.His voice was low and restrained. “Lyra, don’t do this here.”I laughed softly.“Do what? You’re the one who came.”His jaw tightened.“You know this isn’t what it looks like.”“Then what is it?”He glanced at Selene, then back at me.“She was h

Chapter 4

When I got back, I placed the signed bond-severance papers, the healer’s scan of the pup, and the witch’s vial on the bedside table.Then I left without looking back and checked into an inn to wait for Tessa’s people.But the night before I was meant to go, Cassian still found me.He caught the door before I could shut it. He looked tired, strained, and more worn down than I had ever seen him.“Lyra, come home.”I said nothing.He held the door and lowered his voice. “What happened that night wasn’t what you think. I wasn’t trying to hurt you.”Still I said nothing, so he went on.“Selene has a fragile condition. She can’t take shocks. I stopped you because I was afraid things would get worse.”He looked at me for a moment, then added, more quietly, “I know I handled it badly. But once she settles in and her work is arranged, I won’t keep going to her.”His voice roughened.“Lyra, don’t do this to me. I haven’t slept in days.”My heart still tightened.It shouldn’t have, but it did.He

Chapter 5

Cassian stood there as if the words had struck him numb.For a long moment, he said nothing. Then his voice finally came out broken.“That’s impossible. You made a mistake.”“Lyra was waiting for me. We were supposed to eat together. She can’t be dead.”The voice on the other end stayed flat.“We found her identification in the transport. The pack guards confirmed her identity.”Something seemed to collapse inside him.His knees nearly gave way. He caught himself against the wall.Selene stepped forward at once. “Cassian, could this be some kind of trick? Maybe she was angry you came to see me and wanted to scare you. Some wolves do things like that when they want to be chased.”He seized on that at once.“Yes. That’s it. She’s angry. She’s trying to frighten me.”But before he could say more, another message came through.A video.A transport crushed beneath a freight hauler on the road outside the lower market. Fire. Screaming. Then nothing.Cassian opened it with shaking hands.When

Chapter 6

The old alpha looked at Cassian with cold, steady contempt.“When she wanted to be with you, I refused,” he said. “She knelt outside my study for three days and three nights. She kept telling me you would treat her well, that you were the wolf she trusted most in this world. She even threatened to sever ties with me for your sake.”Cassian dropped to his knees.The old alpha did not stop.“And you promised me you would protect her. That you would cherish her. Instead, you let another wolf humiliate her, wound her, and drive her out while you stood there talking of obligations.”His voice hardened further.“Do you know what she gave up to stay with you? If not for you, Lyra would have taken the path her parents once chose., the same path her parents once chose. She gave that up because she wanted an ordinary life with you.”Cassian’s face had gone completely bloodless.The old alpha held the urn in one arm.“I was the one who ordered the cremation. You do not deserve to see her one last

Chapter 7

By the time dusk fell, Cassian looked nothing like the youngest alpha Frostmoon Pack had once admired.His shirt hung loose, his hair was damp with sweat, and he moved through the streets like a wolf who had lost his way and forgotten how to stop.When he got back to the house, some part of him still expected the same small, familiar scene. Lyra would come running out at the sound of the door, throw herself into his arms, and laugh as if nothing in the world could really break between them.But when he pushed the door open, the house was dark.No light.No scent of warm food.No soft voice calling his name.He went straight to the bedroom and stood there breathing in the last traces of her. Then he saw the papers on the bedside table.His heart lurched.For one wild second, he thought she had left him a note. Thought this might still be some cruel punishment, some test he could survive if he just endured it long enough.He snatched them up.What he found was worse: the signed bond-brea

Chapter 8

Selene lived.But the injury kept her from dancing again, and whatever future she had tried to claw back for herself collapsed with it.She reported Cassian. There were inquiries, hearings, and accusations. Favoritism. Improper conduct. Infidelity after formal bonding. The scandal spread quickly through the pack academy and the pack.Cassian did not defend himself.When they moved to strip him of rank, he submitted his resignation before they could finish.He told the elders he was no longer fit to teach young wolves anything.Then he disappeared.I heard all of this seven years later.By then, the Dawnreach Research Center had entered its second phase. For seven years I had lived under another name, behind secured gates, among research halls and controlled compounds. It was the first time I had stepped into a public market in all that time.I never expected to see him there.Cassian had aged more in seven years than some wolves did in twenty. He was leaner, rougher, the lines around h

Chapter 9

Cassian found me three days later.Not at the Project. Not at my quarters. At my grandfather’s house.He stood outside the gate and refused to leave.The first day, he stood under direct sun until his skin burned. The second, rain drenched him through by nightfall. The third, he was still there when the lamps came on.On the fourth morning, he collapsed.They took him to the pack clinic. He burned with fever and woke demanding to see me. When the attendants brought food, he refused it. When they tried to sedate him, he fought them.In the end, I went.I walked into his room already angry.“Cassian, you’re past forty. Can you stop using your own body like this?”He looked up at once.Then, absurdly, he smiled and held out a box.“I got this for you.”Inside was a new moon-wolf carving from a market line I used to collect.Before I could speak, he reached under the pillow and pulled out a bundle of cards tied in cord.“I wrote these over the years,” he said, almost eagerly. “Every place

Chapter 10

On the day he was discharged, he asked to take me to the restaurant I used to love.Just like seven years ago, he walked beside me looking almost hopeful.I felt only tired.When the food came, he placed a dish in front of me himself.“You always liked this one most.”I looked down at it, then back at him.“I don’t anymore.”He froze.I set down my chopsticks.“Seven years is long enough to change anything. The Lyra who loved this, the Lyra who loved you, died on that road.”He went pale.“No.”“Yes.”I rose to leave.He stood so quickly that the chair legs scraped hard against the floor.“Sit back down. Please. Just a little longer. I can make this right.”I looked at him and felt that same deep fatigue again.“You still think love is something you can get back by refusing to let it end.”His face tightened.Then, with sudden desperation, he pulled out the folding knife he had been carrying since the pack clinic and held it against himself.“If you leave now, I’ll do it.”I stared at

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