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Alpha's Regret: The Luna He Betrayed Chapter 45
CHAPTER 45KIERANI worked eighteen hours a day for four days straight.I told everyone it was because of the border reports. Or the timber talks. Or the trade laws that had waited on my desk since spring. Those things were all real. They were also excuses. Work was the only place where I always knew what to do.I came to my office at dawn. I left after midnight. In between, I read reports, signed orders, and sat through meetings I barely remember. My assistant left food on my desk, and I ate it cold. My wolf watched me do all this and said nothing, which was how I knew it was worried.The spy sat in a cell under the palace. Rowan's men had questioned him for two days. He told them everything he knew, and it came to nothing. He had never met V. He had never heard a voice. He had only taken the money and sent the pictures.I had not told Vincent Blackwood about him. I did not know why. Or I did know, and I did not like the reason.On the fourth night, I was still at my desk at half pas
Alpha's Regret: The Luna He Betrayed Chapter 44
Chapter 44MIRANDAThose were the words from the message. My chest tightened."Why?" I said. "Why would you care?""I have reasons. Some are good ones. Some are selfish." His eyes did not leave mine. "When you trust me, I'll tell you which is which."It was an honest answer, or it sounded like one. That was a trick in itself, but I did not see it then."Your father gave you four days," he said quietly. "Four days to be marked and pregnant. He thinks that will tie Kieran to you forever."The room went cold. Only my parents and I had been in that room."Who told you that?""That's a terrible thing to say to a daughter," Cassian said, as if he had not heard me. "Whatever you choose, it should be your choice. Not his. Not your mother's."It was exactly what I had wanted someone to say to me for years. And it had taken a stranger to say it."Did Kieran tell you about last night?" he asked."He left me a message. It was a courtesy dinner. Nothing more.""He left out the flowers."I frowned.
Alpha's Regret: The Luna He Betrayed Chapter 43
CHAPTER 43MIRANDAThe Edinburgh group did not smile when I walked in.There were five of them around a long glass table, four men and one woman, all in dark suits. They had the flat look of people who had heard every pitch there was and believed none of them. The chairman sat at the far end. His name was Callum Fraser. Alan had warned me that he liked to stay silent until he was ready to say no.Alan gave me a small nod from his chair. Then he sat back. This part was mine."Thank you for seeing us so quickly," I said. "I won't waste your time. I have one question. How many shipments did your group lose last year at the border between the human markets and ours?"No one answered. Fraser's eyebrows moved a little."Forty-one," I said. "By our count. Most were not lost, only delayed, until the goods were no use to anyone. Your people paid for that. Nobody wrote it down."I clicked to the first slide. "Northbridge fixes that. Every shipment is tracked. Every hand that touches it is recor
Alpha's Regret: The Luna He Betrayed Chapter 42
Chapter 42KIERAN"I don't know," he whispered. "The money comes first. Then I send the pictures. That's how it works. Nobody talks."He was telling the truth. I could smell it on him, the sour smell of fear with nothing hidden behind it. He was a small tool that someone had picked up and paid.I should have called the Blackwood guards. They were right there at the gate. But I looked at that single letter, and I thought of Vincent's cold blue eyes and the way he had said, *I will not tell you how I know.*Vincent started with a V. It was probably nothing. But if I was wrong, I would be handing this man straight to the person who paid him.So I called my own guards instead. I told myself it was because he was a Sullivan and this was crown business. The real reason was that I trusted no one tonight. I hated that about myself."They'll be here in ten minutes," I told the spy. "You will sit on the ground and you will not speak."He sat. I kept the phone.While we waited, I leaned on my ca
Alpha's Regret: The Luna He Betrayed Chapter 41
CHAPTER 41KIERANI did not stay for dessert. Nobody expected me to.I stood up from the table with my hands shaking. The room was silent. My mother would not look at me. My father stared at the tablecloth. Lydia looked at me as if I had kicked a puppy. Even Lionel, who had never said a hard word to me in his life, kept his eyes on his plate."I'm sorry," I said. It came out rough. "For all of it."No one answered. That was worse than anger.I walked out into the hall. Somewhere in this big house, Seraphina was crying because of me. Isabella had gone after her. I could have gone too. I could have found her in the garden and said the right words.But I did not know what the right words were. I had meant what I said at the table. That was the shameful part. Some part of me had wanted to hurt her, and it had worked.*You wanted her to bleed,* my wolf said. It did not sound angry. It said it like a plain fact. *And she did.*"I know," I said quietly.*She was drugged with silver only days
Alpha's Regret: The Luna He Betrayed Chapter 40
Chapter 40KIERAN"And what would you know about it?" I demanded, my control finally snapping. "You married Marcus Sullivan. You spent five years in his bed, building a life with him. Did you love him? Or was he just your way of escaping from me?""He was my mistake," she admitted, and a tear finally escaped, tracking down her cheek. "He was my attempt to prove I could choose my own path, make my own decisions. And I was wrong. So wrong. But at least I can admit that now. Can you? Can you admit that you're making the same kind of mistake with Miranda?""It's not the same," I insisted, but even I could hear how weak the argument sounded."Isn't it?" Vincent asked. "You're marrying someone you don't love because you think it's the right thing to do, because it makes political sense, because you're too proud or too hurt to admit that your heart still belongs to someone else. That sounds exactly like what my daughter did with Marcus Sullivan."The comparison made me want to throw somethin
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