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156. Family dinner

last update publish date: 2026-03-27 23:25:12

My father knows as well as anyone else that I always show up to any event early, while Pius, on the other hand, would be late to his own funeral.

I’m not the one to be late to anything, but with all the work Agnes left behind, I have no idea how I am going to get out of the office on time.

I need to put her out of my mind anyway I can. But as hard as I try, I cannot focus on a damn thing all day.

Even after my lunchtime ritual, I still cannot get my mind past the morning's events. And by three
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    ~Allister~“Did she finally follow through with it?” I ask Emelda, Jess’s housekeeper and bodyguard.“Yes,” she replies. “She just left with her cousin Sebastian after moving her entire belongings back to her former apartment.”“Shit,” I mutter under my breath.“She left her ring behind, Alpha Allister,” Emelda tells me.“What?”“Yes. Her ring, the house keys, her car keys, and some boxes of clothes and accessories I believe contain gift items you once bought for her. I think she was hurt by the trending pictures of you and the Brumshill heiress.”I groan, rubbing my eyes.I still do not know how those pictures got out there. And worse still, they were taken from angles that made them look and appear oddly inappropriate.My purpose of visiting Brumshill had been simple, to meet the Alpha and find out more about the Varkai Princes.“Alpha Blackwaters?” Emelda calls, drawing me away from my chain of thoughts.“Yes?”“I think you should avoid making things worse by not hurting or humilia

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    ~Jess~“Are you really sure you want to do this, Jess?” Agnes asks, staring at the open, empty boxes on my bed.“Yes, Jess, are you sure about this?” Ursula’s voice is heard via Agnes’s cellphone, lying on the bed, the call set to speaker.“You both sound like I’m trying to disappear,” I reply, coming out of my walk-in closet with some of my shoes. “I’m only going home for a while. Before that, I'll pack my stuff back to my former apartment.”“Didn’t you leave there because your ex was disturbing you?” Ursula asks through the phone.“Well, yeah. But I don’t think he’s there anymore. I called the property manager, and she said he hasn’t been seen at the property in almost two weeks. So, he obviously left once he realized I truly do not want him.”“And you don’t think he would come back if he finds out that you're back?” Agnes asks.“Aggy, I’m not exactly heading back there,” I tell her. “At least not yet. I’m going home to Pasos for now. I’ve not decided if and when I’ll come back to A

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    Allister’s lips curl with undisguised disdain. His eyes are cold as he looks down at me.“Fool,” he mutters.The humiliation burns through me. Never in my entire life would I have thought that I would be hurting this much just because of a mere Omega, who is, by all ramifications, way below my feet

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