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0134: The Attempt Missed
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The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0136: Child Killer Note
ALICE'S POVThe rock came through the window a little after four, and the sound it made going through the glass wasn't the sound I expected. Not a crash. Something flatter than that, and more final, like a plate dropped on stone, and then the long thin noise of the pieces finding the floor.I was at the desk in the consult room with a stack of patient files I'd read the same page of four times, and I didn't move for a good few seconds. I just sat there and looked at the thing lying in the middle of my floor with a paper wrapped around it, and understood that my afternoon had a before and an after now, and that ten seconds ago I'd been sitting in the before.The note was tied on with a bootlace. Three words in block capitals, pressed so hard the pen had gone through the paper in two places.CHILD KILLER. LEAVE.I read it twice, which was once more than it needed, and then I put it in my coat pocket instead of on the desk, because I didn't want it lying face-up in a room people walked i
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0135: Calculated For Alice
John's POVThe third test turned the sample a deep, wrong blue. I sat back on the stool and looked at it a long moment before I let myself believe what I was looking at.I'd seen that color once before, in a lecture hall years ago, described by a man who told us he hoped none of us would ever meet it outside a jar. A refined neurotoxin. Not something pulled out of the ground, not something steeped from a plant by a woman with a grudge and a garden. Something made — in a room with locks on the door and a journal on the shelf, by hands that knew the work.It had taken two failed runs and most of the night to get there. I ran it a third time not because I doubted the second, but because a doctor who clears the woman he loves on a sloppy test hasn't cleared her at all. He's handed the next sharp person a reason to hang her twice.Benjamin came by in the dark hours, both times, and both times I told him the same thing: not until I'm certain. He didn't push. He looked at the lamp still burn
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0134: The Attempt Missed
Benjamin’s POVI didn't indulge her in it or have a response just to make her feel heard. Whatever version of the past she was holding onto, correcting it wouldn't have done either of us any good, and she wasn't really talking to me."Lucian. Lily." She stopped and swallowed. "Both gone. I keep thinking there was a version of this where I did one thing differently, and she's still eating toast in my kitchen, complaining I forgot the cereal." She pressed her hand flat to the desk, hard, and held it there until it stopped shaking, then took it back into her lap. Whatever the rest of that thought was, she kept it.I let her sit in it. I didn't touch her, and I didn't tell her that Alice had knelt on that floor counting compressions until Morwen had to peel her wrists off the girl, because grief doesn't weigh effort against outcome. It just goes looking for somewhere to land.Then, for half a second, the wreck of her face held too still — the wet in her eyes didn't fall, didn't blink. It
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0133: Worth The Price
BENJAMIN'S POVThe meeting ended without a vote. It ended divided, and the division came out into the corridor after me.Marcus caught me there with Harris a step behind him — Harris, who stood at my father's side before he stood at mine, who has never once broken with an Alpha of this line, and who wouldn't lift his eyes to me now."You said words in there you won't get back," Marcus said, not unkindly, a man laying out fact rather than making a threat. "Half that room walked in trusting your judgment as the pack ruler. You came in having sat outside her door all night like a hound on a porch, and then told them you'll set the whole pack's fear aside for one woman who doesn’t even want you back. Some of them will forgive that. Some of them won't, and they'll remember which morning it was." He waited for Harris to say something. Harris studied the floor tiles. "I hope she's worth what she's costing you. Because she is costing you something, and you ought to at least know the price wh
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0132: Guilty Without Proof
Benjamin's POVI came to the council chamber straight off Alice's walkway. I'd watched her door until the sky went grey and I didn't bother hiding where I'd spent the night. Let them see it. A man's choices ought to cost him something out in the open, and I'd rather they read the price off my face than sit there guessing at it.The council was already seated when I got there — elders down both sides of the long table, Sorin near the head with her hands folded, Aldric beside her giving away nothing, Marcus at the window with his arms crossed tight. They'd called it for sunrise, before the pack was properly awake. You don't gather a council at first light to weigh evidence. You gather it that early to decide something before anyone can object.I didn't sit. I stood at the head of the table and gave them facts and nothing else: the broken mug, the spilled tea, the timeline, Lily found in Alice's office, Alice doing compressions when Morwen reached her, no forced entry, no witnesses."Th
The Alpha's Greatest Regret Author's Note
Dear amazing readers,I'm finally back! ❤️First of all, I want to say a huge thank you for your patience while I took a short break from updating. I had an important exam to write, and your understanding meant more to me than you know.To everyone who wished me good luck and told me you'd still be here when I returned—thank you from the bottom of my heart. Your kindness, encouragement, and support kept me motivated throughout.Now that the exam is behind me, I'm excited to announce that daily updates throughout August are officially back! I can't wait to continue this journey with all of you and share everything that's coming next.Thank you for reading, commenting, voting, and believing in this story. I hope you'll enjoy the chapters ahead as much as I enjoy writing them.Let's make August an unforgettable month together! ❤️
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0006: He is a Mistake
ALICE’S POVI should have taken Lucian home.I should have picked him up, carried him away from this festival of false joy and false hope, and tucked him into bed with a story, a kiss, and a promise that tomorrow would be better.But I didn’t. Because Lucian wanted to see the fireworks. And I could
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0005. Kid's First Betrayal
ALICE’S POVThe Blue Moon Festival was Lucian’s idea of heaven and my four-year plan of endurance.He’d been talking about it for weeks—the lanterns, the fireworks, the honey cakes from the booth near the stage. When he’d asked, he’d pressed both hands together like he was praying, eyes wide, and I
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 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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