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0033. This Is Strange
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2026-06-06 19:38:04
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The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0069. Cole Will Come Back Hungrier
Lisa’s POV "Did I say something wrong?" I asked, when he didn't speak. I reached over and touched the back of his hand — light, brief, a hand laid on a door to feel if the lock still held. It didn't. "I've upset you. I'm sorry. I don't get to say these things to anyone who listens.""No." He shook his head, slow, and turned his hand under mine. "This is more than I came here for." A beat. "My Alphas don't know any of this. Or maybe they suspect. Maybe that's why they sent me.""Then I'm glad it was my table you came to." I let the smallest break into it, the brave kind — I've earned that much. "I came back to this house because it was the only place that ever felt like mine. People have made me pay for that. If caring about a pack that forgot me is a crime, I've been guilty for years. But I won't stop telling the truth to the one person who'll finally hear it.""So am I glad." He closed his hand over both of mine, warm, deliberate. "You've been here from the start. You saw what the r
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0068:Grief Was Her Weapon
LISA'S POVI sent Lily up two hours before Cole was due for dinner. Not because she'd asked questions. Because I didn't want her asking them tonight.I set the table myself. The good china, the candles, the bottle from the Calloway estate I'd been saving — twelve years old, old enough to tell a man he's being treated like someone worth the trouble. I put on the green dress, the one that sits off one shoulder, because a man should have something to look at while he decides he likes you. Then I went down to wait.Cole came at seven. On time. I took his coat at the door and reached up to his collar, close enough the scent of me reached him too, and he held still while I did it. We sat down to a dinner that went exactly to plan, right up until it didn't.The soup was good. I'd made it myself — for him, and I made sure he knew it was for him, set the bowl down with my hand resting a moment on the cloth beside his. I don't cook for guests I'm not trying to keep. He noticed, and said so. H
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0067: She Came To Plant Doubt
ALICE'S POVThe mug was still on my desk when I came in. His. Blue ceramic, rinsed, set down the night before in the corner where the coffee cups used to go. I'd left it there without meaning to. I looked at it a moment, then opened the first file of the day.Morwen found me at eight with the schedule. Her eyes went straight to the mug. She didn't ask."Caleb's mother called. Six-week follow-up. She wants you to know he still has the wolf drawing.""Thursday.""Already scheduled." She set the folder down. "There's a woman in the waiting room. Not a patient. Her daughter was screened three weeks ago. She wants whoever's in charge.""Send her in."Petra's daughter was seven. The markers had come back high, and Petra had spent three weeks sure she was losing her. I walked her through what the numbers meant and what came next, until she left still scared — just scared about the right things now.She caught my hand at the door. "Thank you. Nobody took the time before."I watched her cross
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0066: Handed Him The Truth
BENJAMIN'SDrake didn't look up when I came into the yard. Didn't break his rhythm either — the blade running a drill he'd run ten thousand times."I have questions.""About what?""About Alice. Who she was before she came here."He stopped. Turned. His face gave me nothing. "You were married to her four years. You don't know who she was?""I know who I thought she was." I'd had the shape of it ready the whole walk over, braced for it — wanting the worst of it said out loud so I could carry it instead of just taking it. "Somebody hurt her before me. That's why she got so good at being no one — you don't learn to disappear like that unless someone taught you it was safer. I came to hear who did it."Drake set the blade down, slow."You came here for a villain," he said. "Somebody you could be angrier at than yourself."That wasn't where I'd aimed. It landed wrong, off the angle I'd come in on."It wasn't one person," he said. "It was us. Her family. The ones who were supposed to be saf
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0065: Tired Of Pointing Nowhere
ALICE'S POVBenjamin's fever broke on a Tuesday. By Friday he was back in the council chamber and the training yard like nothing had touched him — except he wouldn't come within ten feet of me where anyone could see.He passed the clinic window three times that first morning. Three times his eyes found mine through the glass.Three times he kept walking.I had a stack of files and a supply request that had sat on Morwen's desk for a week. I picked up the next chart and called the next name.The coffee showed up the next morning. Seven o'clock, two cups, Benjamin filling the doorway, one shoulder braced against the frame, no closer than that.Black. No sugar.He set the second cup down without drinking from it. "Garrett's been asking about the bonding review schedule. Wanted you to hear it from someone before it hits the council floor."My pen stopped halfway through a signature. "What does that mean.""It means in nineteen days they expect to know if this—"He didn't finish it. He loo
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0064: Cold Truth She Couldn't Swallow
ALICE’S POVI'd told Benjamin what it cost Lucian, every time that chair sat empty. Then I left before I could watch it land — out of the kitchen, out the front door, into the cold.My breath misted in front of me. The compound was quiet, the medical bag heavy in my hand.I hadn't planned to say any of it. I'd meant to leave the instructions and go, the same distance I'd kept for weeks.The cushion hadn't moved from the chair when I left it.Lucian's chair — the one he used to drag in from the living room every morning before anyone else was awake.I couldn't walk past it and say nothing.I walked home without looking back at the house even once.John was waiting outside my quarters, sitting on the step, coat pulled tight, hands in his pockets. He looked up when he heard me coming."You were gone a long time.""I was checking on Benjamin." I sat down beside him. The cold found me right away, straight through the coat. "He's asleep. Antibiotics on the nightstand."John nodded and didn'
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