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I heard it all — the whispered confession, the cruel truth tearing my soul apart. "My sweet Rylie is worth it," Gregory said. "Even if Kora never forgives me." The man I trusted with my life, the Beta who was supposed to protect me, had traded my mother's life and my sight... just to make another woman smile. Blinded, betrayed, and abandoned, I thought I had lost everything. Until I discovered the deeper truth — the accident that shattered my world wasn’t fate. It was a choice. His choice. Now, standing at the edge of everything I once knew, I have one chance left: to vanish, to erase Kora Lewis from existence... and to be reborn. But escaping a bond woven by destiny isn't so simple. Especially when the one who destroyed me starts to realize what he’s truly lost — and is willing to tear the world apart to get it back. Will I find freedom… or will the past hunt me down before I can break free? ... After the accident, everything unraveled so quickly that I hardly had time to breathe. One moment we were driving home, the next, the world turned upside down in a screech of tires and shattering glass. My mother lay unconscious, blood pooling beneath her, and I—barely clinging to awareness—could already feel the cold dread of what came next. The hospital lights were harsh and sterile, offering no comfort as the doctors delivered their verdict: without