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0104: Numb Hands, Loud Heart
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The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0185: He Laughed
Alice’s POV "Somebody carried that mixture into the eastern woodland," he said. "It was still on the ground where we took Cora Maren out."The office went very quiet."How much of it.""Faint. Rain had most of it. It was under everything else.""And the rest of the compound?""Nowhere. Just there."I nodded and said thank you then turned towards the door. I've got no memory of getting out of that building. I stopped at the old well halfway back and stood there looking at nothing in particular.In all the years that man and I had each other, I never saw him look ordinary. Not one single time. Alpha Benjamin, who kept every living soul at arm's length, who carried this whole pack and never once in his life let a person watch him stagger. Somewhere in those years the Alpha ate the man. And this morning he stood in a towel with his ears going red and laughed at himself.I don't know why that's what followed me down the road.Morwen was at the front desk when I came in. She looked up and
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0184: He Blushed First
ALICE'S POVI've been waiting nine days to get Benjamin on his own.Not for a reason I could say out loud to anybody. He stood in my clinic and asked me how you keep a wolf from smelling something. Then he said not yet when I asked the details of his question. Then he picked up my case, walked me down to the southern quarter, fixed a widow's gate on the way past, and went home. And every morning since, I've gone to work with a cotton pouch in my desk drawer that was made by a child who's dead.Nine days of that, and no way to get near the man without half the territory watching.So when Callum turned up in my clinic doorway, I was already thinking about it.I was at the sink after the last of the morning list. He had a folder under his arm and he'd been up since before it was light, by the look of him, and hadn't sat down once."I need a favor.""That depends.""Benjamin signed the authorization for Elder Rowan's medicine and then left it on his desk instead of giving it to me." He he
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0183: Trust Killed Her
LISA'S POVIn the morning my sitting room looked like somebody had broken in.I stood in the doorway with the light coming through the curtains and made myself look at what I'd done. Glass over the floorboards from one wall to the other. The good chair on its side, a leg snapped clean at the joint. Books everywhere, spines broken open, pages folded under themselves.A frame lay face down under the table.I picked it up. The glass was gone at one corner, but the photograph underneath had come through fine.Lily and me at the Harvest Festival, the year she decided she could make honey cakes on her own and ruined every one of them, flour to the elbow and a streak of it across her nose.I told her she had a ghost face on and she laughed until she had to sit down on the church step to do it properly."I'm sorry."It came out of me before I could stop it, and I meant it, for as long as it takes to draw one breath and let it go. Standing in my own wreckage with my daughter's face in my hands,
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0182: A Complete Fool
LISA'S POVI don't remember the walk back home.I remember smiling at the guard on the Alpha House gate. I remember nodding at the woman who sells the bread, and the blacksmith's apprentice putting a hand up to me from across the row, and mine going up back like somebody had asked it to. My body did every one of those things right while the inside of my head came apart at the seams. Then my own front door. The latch catching behind me.And my legs gave out.I slid down the door and hit the floor, breathing so hard my ribs ached. Drake Watson. Third Alpha of Shadow Moon. Alice’s brother. The name pounded through my skull like a drumbeat.“No.” My voice came out thin. “No. That’s impossible.”I laughed once. The sound broke into something closer to a sob.I pushed myself up and staggered into the sitting room. My notebook lay on the table where I’d left it. Cole. Shadow Moon? Drake? I grabbed it and read the words again. Then I tore the page out. Tore it again. Again. Again. The pieces
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0181: The Face Of Guilt
DRAKE'S POVI walked from the training grounds to the Alpha House without stopping and without talking to anybody. The loop in my head came right along with me. Not what she'd said — what her face did on guilty, how her voice thinned out on proof, a woman answering a question nobody in that field had asked her.Callum got the door. A patrol captain was at the desk with the border reports; Benjamin took one look at my face and sent him out. The door shut. Nobody said anything."Well?""Say back to me what you told me this morning."He didn't blink at it. "A delegate from shadow moon. Came recently. Keeps to himself. Nothing she can use.""That's it. Word for word.""I know."Benjamin waited. So I told him. All of it, in order — her coming across the ground, the questions, her deciding out loud that I was Alice's lover, the crest coming out of my coat, what her face did at Shadow Moon, and brother, and baby sister.He didn't interrupt once. Callum stayed at the window with his arms fold
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0180: The Prey Walks In
DRAKE'S POVThe pack training grounds sat empty an hour after evening drills ended, out past where the compound quit and the trees started. That's where I waited for a woman who had no idea she was the one being hunted.I’d learned long ago that hunting wasn’t always about chasing. Sometimes you simply stopped moving. The prey came to you, thinking it chose to.Somebody had left the practice dummies out, and the frames creaked every time the wind got around them. It's the only sound that place makes when it's empty.Benjamin's instruction that morning had been simple: give her nothing but true things she couldn't use. A delegate from shadow moon. Came recently. Keeps to himself.I'd already decided I wasn't going to do that.I didn't have to wait very long before I heard familiar footsteps behind me."I was starting to think you were avoiding me."Her voice came across the ground behind me. I turned around slow, because there's no reason to be quick about anything with that woman.She
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0004. Four Years Too Late
ALICE’S POVThe days that followed had a rhythm I didn’t trust.Benjamin came every morning. He actually sat at the table — something I still hadn’t gotten used to — and ate whatever I put in front of him. He returned every evening and stayed until Lucian’s eyes drifted shut.Four mornings in a row
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0002: Thirty Days of Dad
Alice’s POV"What?""Is this your new plan? To trap me again?" Benjamin’s voice dripped with contempt. "Did you run out of tricks, Alice? Is faking our son’s terminal illness really the best you could come up with?"I couldn’t breathe. The hospital hallway seemed to close in around me, the walls pr
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0001:One Month Left
ALICE’S POVI hadn't slept. I'd counted his breaths instead.It had been four hours since Lucian collapsed at breakfast. Four hours since I’d screamed loud enough to wake every wolf on our floor of the western wing. Now the monitors did the counting for me — soft, steady, mechanical as my son slept
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0003. Don't Get Used To It
ALICE’S POVBy the time I walked into the hospital room, I had composed myself completely. My face was set.Lucian was awake, sitting up in bed. His face brightened the moment he saw me."Mommy. You came back.""I came back." I lifted him into my arms. He smelled like baby shampoo, antiseptic, and
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