Inside the pavilion, Lyra observed her sister keenly before raising the question. "What brings you here, Miranda?"
Miranda stared at Lyra, who seemed like a whole new person ever since Alpha Cassian had taken her under his wing. Someone who had never seen her eye to eye was talking to her confidently. And yet, she couldn't help but despise her even more.
That place should be mine, she thought bitterly but didn't voice it out loud.
"Lyra, do you even know what has happened to us since Alpha Cassian spared our lives?" Miranda began, her tone laced with false sorrow. "His father, the Alpha King, banished us. Our father was stripped of his position. Our pack was dismantled. Everything we had was taken from us in the blink of an eye, leaving us with nothing but a life of poverty."
