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0271: The Nursery War
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2026-10-22 01:09:56
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The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0272: A Night Without Sleep
ALICE'S POVBy the time the clock went past midnight, I had turned over so many times that the sheets were twisted all around my legs. My belly got heavier every week, and the baby seemed determined to ruin every position I used to like. When I lay on my left side, my hip started hurting. When I lay on my right side, the baby pressed so low that I had to move again. Lying on my back only lasted as long as it took Benjamin to wake up and ask if I could still breathe.“I’m breathing,” I whispered into the dark.He pushed himself up on one elbow and looked at me. “You moved. Do you need water? Another pillow? Should I call Morwen?”I pushed a pillow between my knees and tried again. The baby rolled inside me, and I took a sharp breath.Benjamin sat straight up. “What is it? Is it pain? Are you sure it’s nothing?”“Benjamin.” I turned to face him, and my voice came out sharper than I meant it to. “Please stop asking me every time I move. Now I’m awake, you’re awake, and I’m lying here wa
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0271: The Nursery War
BENJAMIN'S POVThe first delivery truck pulled up at eight in the morning.I signed for the white crib with the rounded corners and checked the box carefully to make sure nothing was damaged. The delivery men carried it upstairs to the nursery, and they were still bringing in the changing table when the next van arrived. That van brought a rocking chair and a nursing chair, and it also brought a second rocking chair because the first one did not have an adjustable footrest. After that came two bassinets, a stroller, and a portable crib. A bottle sterilizer showed up too, along with a baby monitor that had a camera and a second monitor that tracked the temperature in the room and every movement inside it.Alice walked down the stairs and stopped so suddenly that she had to grab the railing to steady herself.Boxes filled the hallway, and half of the sitting room had disappeared behind packages. One of the delivery men was trying to move a flat-packed wardrobe around the sofa.She look
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0270: The First Kick
ALICE'S POVMonths went by before I felt the baby move.I was going through some research papers in the sitting room when it happened. The movement was so light that I thought it was just a muscle twitch at first, a tiny ripple low in my belly. I stopped writing and held my breath with one hand resting over the curve under my blouse.It came again. A soft tap, like a fingertip knocking from the inside.I started smiling before I could stop myself. "Hello, little one."Benjamin looked up from his laptop across the room. "What is it?""I think the baby just moved."He stood up before I even finished the sentence, and his laptop almost slid off his knees. "Now?""Just now." I took his hand and pressed it against my stomach. "Hold still. Maybe you will feel it."He kept his warm hand there and did not blink while he waited for the baby to move again.We waited, but nothing happened.He shifted his hand a little to the left. "Maybe here?""Benjamin, the baby does not have a doorbell.""I a
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0269: The First Scare
ALICE'S POVThe nausea hit me hard while I was standing at the counter in the clinic going through the morning reports. One moment I was sorting patient notes with my ginger tea steaming next to me, and the next moment the floor felt like it was tilting under my feet. The whole room started spinning, so I grabbed the edge of the counter to keep from falling. I lowered myself down carefully until I was sitting on the floor with my back against the cabinet.Benjamin's footsteps came running across the room right away."Alice?" he said, and his voice changed as soon as he saw me on the floor. He crouched down beside me and all the color left his face. I could feel his fear through the bond. It was sharp and sudden."I'm awake," I told him before he could start shouting for the rest of the pack. "I can hear you and I can answer you. I'm just dizzy. I'm not dying.""Why are you on the floor?" he asked."Because the floor finally stopped moving long enough for me to sit down," I said.He d
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0268: Blue Moon Has A Baby Coming
BENJAMIN'S POVI knew we were in trouble the second Lucian ran through the front doors.Alice was still standing next to me on the steps with her fingers locked in mine. Our son rushed past the guards and went straight into the main hall, and his voice carried back out through the open doors, loud enough for the whole house to hear."Everybody! My mom has a baby in her belly!"Alice's hand tightened hard around mine. I closed my eyes for a second.We had planned to tell the household together after we had some time to breathe and decide how much we wanted to share. Lucian clearly did not wait for that plan.Inside, there was a short moment of silence before a lot of people started talking and asking questions at the same time.Alice looked at me and tried not to smile. "Well. That was fast.""I'm going to talk to him about sharing family news.""Are you going to tell him not to be happy?""I'm going to tell him to think first before he opens his mouth."She laughed, and I felt some of
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0267: The Answer
ALICE'S POVI woke up with my hand already resting low on my belly.The room was quiet and full of soft morning light. Downstairs a cupboard door banged shut, and Lucian was talking loudly about something. Benjamin's words from last night kept running through my head. He had said "another pup," and those two words stayed with me all night. I pressed down on my stomach, trying to feel if anything was different, but I felt nothing new. I am a doctor. I know there are many reasons a woman can feel sick in the morning, and I know hope can trick you into believing something that might not be true.I pushed the covers off and got out of bed before I could keep thinking in circles.Benjamin stood at the kitchen counter buttering toast. Lucian knelt on a stool next to him, looking at a piece of paper covered in messy handwriting."Should I be worried that you two are having a planning meeting without me?" I asked.Lucian turned so fast he almost fell off the stool. "Mom! We're making a list
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 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
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