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0168:The False Delegate
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2026-08-17 00:43:32
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The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0169: They Believed The Lie
ALICE’S POVThe waiting room was full before the sun was properly up.I stopped in the doorway with my bag still on my shoulder and looked at it. Mothers with coughing children. Two old men with their sample jars balanced on their knees.A pair of young warriors carrying the same bruises across both sets of knuckles, sitting four feet apart, not looking at each other. A girl with a swollen ankle up on her mother's lap.Every bench taken.Morwen came in at my elbow."Room three wants stitching. Room one's a finger out of its joint. Mrs. Aldern's in two with her hands. And those two can wait."I didn't move."Alice.""They came back."She took the bag off my shoulder and set it behind the front desk. "They never left. They were only frightened." She put a file in my hand. "Three first. That hunter's been going through his bandage for twenty minutes."The boy in room one was about six. His finger sat at an angle that made his mother wince every time she looked at it, and he'd stopped cry
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0168:The False Delegate
LISA'S POVI scrubbed the counters twice, then washed the dishes that had been sitting in that sink since the funeral. I wiped down the windowsill where Lily used to line her painted stones up in a row.I left the stones themselves where they were. I couldn't pick them up.The marigolds were out back in that wooden box. She'd planted them three months ago and stood over them for a week waiting for something to happen, and when the first buds came she made me come out and look at them twice. They're going brown at the edges now.I stood out there with the watering can in my hand and didn't water them. Then I came back in and set it down by the door.The house is full of her. Her scarf hangs over the back of a chair. The drawing's still taped to the pantry door — a horse with six legs, because she told me horses run too fast to only have four and she wasn't taking questions on it. Her boots by the step, waiting for feet.I put the can down and went out of that house without locking it b
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0167: Treating It As Murder
Benjamin's POVThe clinic door opened before I got my hand to it. John was standing there with the folder already out.He'd been waiting on me."You're early.""I didn't sleep."I took it from him and read it standing up. He stayed by his desk and watched me do it and didn't say a word.Both her wrists were bruised, both of them, all the way around, which means somebody had hold of her.The poison was the same one that killed the child.And nobody puts themselves in a box and buries it.The letter is in her handwriting. The words in it are not hers.And there was a piece of dark blue thread under the nail of her left hand.I read that last line twice and shut the folder."If this was anybody else," I said, "would you call it suicide?""No.""Would you put your name to it?""I haven't, and I won't."I folded the report and put it inside my coat."That's what I came for.""That's it? You've no questions?""I've plenty. None of them are yours this morning." I got the door open and held i
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0166: The Blue Thread
John's POVThe door swung shut behind me and the bell was still going somewhere behind the hill.I should've gone to the meal. That child deserved every person who ever loved her sitting in one room, eating off the same table, telling each other what she was like, and there'll be people at that table tonight who remember the doctor didn't come.I went past the chairs somebody had shoved back against the wall, past the appointment book still open on the page where they'd crossed the whole day out.Morwen was already down the corridor. She had the clipboard and the pen, and she'd put her coat on the back of the door instead of hanging it up, which is what she does when she doesn't intend to be talked out of something."You don't have to do this today," I said."Neither do you."I put my hand on the sheet and stood there a second, and then I took it back off her."Then let's begin."We didn't say much for the first hour. Morwen wrote down every word in that flat steady hand of hers and n
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0165: They Buried Her
ALICE'S POVThe bell started before it was dawn.One. Then another. Then another, and I lay there in the dark and counted every one of them. There was nothing else to do with myself. Today they bury Lily.I sat on the edge of the bed a long time after it stopped. This house has been quiet for sixteen days, and it was worse this morning than it's ever been. I said her name out loud in that room. Not because I expected anything back. I didn't want that child to go out of the world without one person saying it kindly.Then I got up and went to work. It's the only thing I've ever known what to do.The clinic was nearly empty. Somebody had pushed all the chairs back against the walls in the waiting room and nobody had put them straight again. The book lay open on the front desk, the whole page crossed out. Twenty-one cancellations, and two that hadn't bothered to cancel.Even being sick can wait a day, apparently.Morwen was at the front desk, going through files that didn't need going t
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0164: Circle Around Cole
LISA'S POVI was awake before first light, and the first thing I did was open the wardrobe, tomorrow they put my daughter in the ground and somebody has to decide what she wears.The white one is still hanging there, embroidered at the sleeves, the hem left unfinished because she'd grown two inches in three months and I kept promising to take it to the seamstress. I never did. Now I never will.I ran a finger along the stitching, crooked on one side where she'd begged for the needle herself, her hands too small to hold the line straight, and I told her it was beautiful.I meant it.I folded the dress, put it back, and shut the door on it. Then I picked out what she'd be buried in instead — the blue one with the flowers, the one she chose herself and nobody argued her out of. She had it on the last time she waved at me, both arms up over the schoolyard fence.I sat on the edge of the bed a long while before I could get a proper breath. The house doesn't make a sound anymore. It hasn't
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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