Alpha Damon (Sienna) novel Chapter 301

I hated this part, the silence after chaos.

The lingering moment where you think that everything is supposed to be right in the world and yet, you know that it is not going to be.

It was suffocating. And I hated that no one saw it as that way. No one saw it for what it really was.

I sat, watching the window, more time than I should have. I tried to think straight, but I couldn’t bring myself to do so. I couldn’t bring myself to ignore the lingering pain that I kept feeling no matter how hard I tried.

I walked.

I ran.

I couldn’t train. And that didn’t make it easier.

Regardless of what I tried to do. It didn’t become easier.

I walked slowly through the hallway, my fingers grazing the wall like I needed something to tether me. Like I needed something to remind me of what stable grounds was. My body was still aching, my bones heavy like they remembered every blow, every moment spent trapped between the real world and that other place, that void where she found me, where she coldly called for me.

Tatiana.

Her name tasted bitter.

The woman who claimed to be my mother. The woman that everyone wanted me to believe was related to me.

A part of me wanted to scream it into the sky, spit it out like venom, pretend that it did not exist. But another part of me… couldn’t even understand why her voice still echoed in the back of my head. Why it still hurt. Why, even now, my chest ached in ways I couldn’t explain. Why I had the feeling that something bad was going to happen, and there was no way that I was going to be able to stop it.

“Delilah?”

I flinched.

“I’m not avoiding,” I lied. “I’m just… tired.”

She didn’t push. Not yet. Just stood there, like she always did-steady, calm, watching.

When I didn’t say anything else, she stepped beside me and looked out the window. The pack was still rebuilding. Wolves dragging debris, voices calling for inventory checks, healers tending to the injured. It should’ve made me feel stronger, knowing we’d survived. But it didn’t.

“He asked me about you,” Sienna said suddenly. “He wanted to see how you were doing…”