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0057: Rejection Denied
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2026-06-17 00:17:34
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The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0058: Thirty Days Are His Alone
ALICE’S POVThree days since the full moon. We hadn't spoken.I counted it without meaning to.John and I were working down the last of the afternoon caseload — the follow-ups, then the final pages of training documentation, then the stack of files John had already started on before anyone thought to ask. He always did. The light through the clinic windows had gone the grey it goes before evening. He stood at the front desk with his reading glasses pushed low on his nose and a pen behind his ear he'd clearly forgotten was there.Then the door opened, and Drake walked in.He had a bag over one shoulder and a look on his face that made John step back without deciding to. I stayed where I was."I told you not to come."Drake dropped the bag onto the nearest chair. "You told me not to come for a month. It's been a month and three days." His eyes went round the clinic, taking it all in at once. "Also, Damian's worried. David did a risk assessment.""A risk assessment.""Twelve pages. Colo
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0057: Rejection Denied
ALICE'S POVThe bond was still there when I walked out — the same press against my chest it had been since the clearing.The compound was quiet. I crossed the frozen ground barefoot and didn't feel it.John was on the step outside my door, still in his training coat, the cold pressing it flat against him. He stood when he saw me. He took in my feet, my hands, the way I couldn't stop pressing my palm to my chest."What happened?"I opened my mouth. The words left me before they reached the air.He didn't push. He stepped forward and pulled me in — one arm, then both — and I pressed my face against his coat.His arms were steady."You're freezing," he said. "Come inside."He sat me on the edge of the bed and waited. Somewhere in the compound, a door opened and closed."I rejected him," I said. "Under the full moon. The formal words.""And?""He refused to accept it."John went still. "He can do that?""The ritual requires both parties. If he doesn't accept, the bond stays." I pressed my
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0056: This Is What I Deserve
BENJAMIN'S POVShe shifted and the trees took her.The bond pulled northwest with every stride she took, a hard insistent thing knocking behind my ribs. I stood there in the snow, barefoot, my hand pressed flat to my chest, and I didn't follow.The rejection was still in the bond — her words hanging there, unaccepted, waiting on something I wasn't going to give. I stayed until my feet went past numb, until the moon moved a degree and the snow started to creak in the wind. Then I heard footsteps at the tree line.Callum was still in his celebration coat. Which told me exactly how fast he'd run.He looked at my bare feet. At my hand on my chest. He stopped. "I felt it," he said. "The whole pack felt it. Something convulsed and then didn't break." He came across the clearing slow. "She rejected you.""Yes.""You didn't accept it.""No."He didn't ask why. He just stood beside me and looked at the same tree line I was looking at. His breath misted and went. When I turned back toward the c
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0055: Reject Me Forever
ALICE’S POV"Alice." His voice landed rough. "Whatever you're thinking—""I, Alice Watson, hereby, formally reject you, Alpha Benjamin Kane, as my mate."The words were built for exactly this — learned before I shifted, final in the way ordinary words never were. They came out right. I watched them landed, exactly as I meant it.The bond answered at once. A convulsion that doubled me forward, my hand flat against my chest. I breathed through it. One breath, then another.Benjamin's hand flew to his chest. The color left his face all at once, and his breath came out in a short, sharp sound. Between us the bond pulled — my rejection waiting on his acceptance. Just two words from him, and it would be done.I waited.He didn't say them."No."I stared at him. "What?""No." He stepped closer. He wasn't shielding his face anymore. "I won't accept it.""You don't have a choice. The rejection is mine to make. You have to accept it.""I don't have to do anything." His voice was climbing, the c
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0054: Make Him Feel It
ALICE'S POVBenjamin's footsteps in the corridor. I was already on the floor, the other side of the door, and I didn't get up.His voice. Then John's, cutting over it."You've kept secrets. You let her find out the truth from Lisa Scott, in front of a room full of people."I pressed my forehead to my knees."You had three years to tell her. You chose not to."He said it clean, without the weight of four years sitting on top of it."Then suffer. But don't make her suffer with you."Footsteps — Benjamin's, moving away. Then John's voice again, lower. "You're not the man she described. The one who left her on the road. I still don't think —"Nothing. Benjamin had kept walking.He'd come to explain himself. John had stopped him. He'd stood at my door, heard the quiet behind it, and gone.My legs had stiffened against the cold floor. I got up anyway and opened the door.John was still there. He looked at my face and didn't ask me anything."I need to go out," I said.He nodded. He didn't f
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0053: She Doesn't Want You
BENJAMIN’S POVJohn was at her door before I was.He'd been there a while, leaning on the wall with his arms crossed, planted there already, and the fact of him standing where he was told me everything. She'd known I was coming. He straightened when I came around into the corridor and he didn't move aside."She doesn't want to see you.""I need to talk to her.""She doesn't want to see you." Same steady voice, but there was an edge sitting under it now. "You've kept secrets. You let her find out the truth from Lisa Scott, in front of a room full of people. What could you possibly say that makes any of this better?""I'm not trying to make it better. I'm trying to tell her the truth.""You had three years to tell her the truth. You chose not to." He set himself square in front of the door. "She's in there right now trying to figure out if anything you've said in the past few weeks was real. And you want to go in there and unburden yourself so you can feel better about what you did.""T
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