# Chapter 22: Final Battle **Lily's POV** Two weeks of brutal training had transformed me from a frightened Omega into something harder. Something sharper. Something dangerous. Beta James hadn't gone easy on me. Every dawn I'd been thrown into combat drills, sparring sessions, strategy lessons. I'd been knocked down so many times I'd lost count. I'd pushed my body past exhaustion, past pain, past the point where I thought I couldn't continue. And then I'd gotten back up and done it again. Marcus had trained beside me, both of us healing and strengthening together. We'd learned to fight as a unit—anticipating each other's moves, covering each other's weaknesses, becoming something stronger together than we were apart. Now, standing on the packhouse grounds as the sun set on the fourte

