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0080:Not All The Way Sorry
Date de publication:
2026-07-02 00:53:29
FlyingDoveQuick question: Do you think John deserves a real chance with Alice or nah..I'd like to hear your reason.
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Lisa's POVJohn was alone in the supply room off the clinic — which was the only reason I came at all. He was restocking gauze, working it onto the shelf harder than the shelf had done anything to deserve."Pushing harder isn't going to turn her around," I said.He didn't look up. "If you are here to give unsolicited advice again then please don't.""You don't have to take it. I only watch." I leaned into the doorframe, easy, like I had all afternoon to give him. "You fought for her in front of everyone. Threw a punch, even. And she still tracks him across a courtyard like he's worth keeping an eye on."He set the gauze down — harder than it needed setting — and turned to face me. "That's not your business.""It's the whole pack's business by now. They all watched you hit your rival at the festival." I tilted my head, gentle as anything. "I'd have thought that settled something. It didn't, though. *Did it.*"He didn't answer. He picked up the next roll and went back to stacking, and h
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0085: Smiled At Him
ALICE'S POVMorwen told me before Benjamin did.She mentioned it the way she mentioned everything—a fact dropped between two others, requisition forms in one hand, the news in the other."The endowment passed council yesterday. Permanent. Irrevocable, even if a future council wanted to undo it." She set the forms on my desk. "He drafted it himself. Wanted it tied to the program, not to anything personal."Not a gift, then.I took the forms and didn't say so. It would outlast the thirty days, whatever I decided—even him, if it came to that, the work going on no matter what I did with the rest of my life. That sat somewhere flowers wouldn't have reached.I nodded and went back to the chart in front of me. My hands weren't quite steady doing it. I didn't look at them long enough to be sure why.I moved through the rest of the day differently. Nothing I could have named, if anyone had asked.I lingered a beat too long in the clinic corridor when I caught sight of Benjamin at the far end,
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0084: Even If She Leaves
BENJAMIN'S POVAldric had the morning's papers squared in front of him before I'd even cleared the doorway, and he didn't look up — not until I'd dropped into the seat across from him."This isn't on the agenda," he said."It is now." I sat without looking at him. "I want a permanent endowment for the pediatric screening program. Structured so no future council can touch it. Not this one. Not the next ten."Aldric set the pen down, slow. "In Dr. Watson's name and not yours or the pack?.""In the program's name." I held his eyes. "Her work — whatever happens between her and me doesn't get a vote in it. I don't want this tied to my title, my marriage, or what kind of mood I'm in on a given day. I want it tied to the children it's already saved."He looked at me a long moment — the look he got when he was deciding whether to push or let a thing stand."This is unusual," he said. "Permanent endowments outlast Alphas. Outlast councils. You're aware of what you're asking — this can't be und
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0083: Something Shifted When He Left
ALICE'S POVNine days left.I'd started counting before I got out of bed — the number just sitting there before coffee, before I'd even brushed my teeth. Nine days until the council's window closed, and I still didn't know what I'd put in the box marked answer.John's kiss sat between us, neither of us naming it since the morning after. He and Benjamin hadn't said a word to each other since the festival — a cold, careful orbit, both of them circling me instead of each other. I was tired of being something two grown men took turns being careful around.The clinic was busy enough that I didn't have much room to think about any of it. I was grateful for that.Lily showed up just after the lunch rush, slipping in through the side door the way she usually did, a folded piece of paper held against her chest like something precious."I made you something," she said, holding it out before I'd even fully turned around.A blue wolf, drawn in careful, uneven crayon, standing beside a smaller fig
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0082: The Wall Paid For It
ALICE'S POVBenjamin had already walked away by the time I made myself stop touching the mark on my neck.The kiss with John hadn't meant much — or it had meant something, but a clean kind of something, with none of the weight I dragged around in Blue Moon. No ghosts. No bond. No thirty days sitting on every word I said. That was the whole point of going. I'd kissed John back because for one evening I'd wanted to be a woman who could choose the easy thing and not have it cost her anything and I’m not sorry for it.Benjamin's voice when he said those words earlier stayed with me longer than I wanted. Not the jealousy underneath — that was there too, close to the surface, barely held. It was the steadiness. He hadn't shouted. He hadn't accused me of anything I could argue with cleanly. He'd just named the real shape of what loving me would cost, and walked off before I could tell him it wasn't fair to ask that of anyone. Some small, worn-out part of me agreed it was exactly fair, beca
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0081:The Mark On Her Neck
BENJAMIN’S POVI went down to the clinic to find her. Morwen told me she'd already left — gone off with John — and she didn't know where the two of them had got to.So I waited at her door instead. I had something to say to her, and somewhere in that long day of scrubbing blood off my own jaw I'd made up my mind I wasn't going to lose my nerve before I got it out.She came back near midnight, right after Alec sent a message to let me know he saw her in town and if I knew about it. I had the smell of him on her before I even looked at her face —I already knew she let another man have his hands all over her, plain as anything to a wolf's nose, and mine had never once spared me a single thing it could tell me.Then I saw the mark on her neck.Small. Faint pink love bite that was barely there. The kind of mark you'd only catch if you knew just where to look, and I knew exactly what had left it.The bond came up under my skin and leaned toward her, not asking one thing about what I wanted.
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0036. The Girl Who Knew Too Much
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The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0035:The Alpha Stayed Up
Caleb's fever spiked just after midnight.Morwen's message came in while I was still at my desk. Alice was already up in the pediatric wing — she'd been there since we got back from the depot, making up the hours the drive had cost her.So I walked over.The corridors were quiet, the lights turned
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0034: He Called Me His Wife
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