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The Alpha's Regret Came Too Late Chapter 19
Chapter 19ANNALISAThe crisis began on a Tuesday.I arrived at the school that morning to find three separate things wrong simultaneously, which should have told me something—three separate things going wrong simultaneously is rarely coincidence.The first was that the data sharing system Marcus's team had established for tracking student outcomes across the territories had corrupted overnight. Not a simple glitch,the corruption was specific and thorough, affecting six months of carefully compiled records in a way that suggested someone had intentionally sabotaged it rather than it being technical failure.The second was that seventeen pups from the Silverpine exchange program, who were scheduled to arrive at the Greenwood school for their three-day integration visit, had received communications canceling the visit—communications that appeared to have originated from my official program account and that I had not sent.The third was that the parents of four Greenwood pups with delaye
The Alpha's Regret Came Too Late Chapter 18
Chapter 18ANNALISAThe educational cooperation work began in earnest the following week.Antonio had, to my mild surprise, removed almost everything else from my schedule to accommodate it. When I had mentioned this might be premature given the Moon Rite preparations still outstanding, he had said—with that particular Alpha finality that ended discussions—"Raines can handle the remaining logistics. This is more important."I had not argued. I had learned, over the preceding weeks, that arguing with Antonio when he used that tone was structurally similar to arguing with a wall—technically possible, ultimately unproductive.The work itself was absorbing in the way only things I genuinely loved could absorb me. I spent mornings in communication with Marcus's team at Silverpine, coordinating curriculum frameworks and establishing the inter-pack data sharing protocols that would allow us to track outcomes across territories. I spent afternoons with the Greenwood Pack school staff, mapping
The Alpha's Regret Came Too Late Chapter 17
Chapter 17ANNALISAMarcus Thorne was easy to talk to.This was the first thing I noticed about him, and it struck me as significant because I had spent most of my life finding conversation difficult—not the performance of it, which I had learned through necessity, but the actual ease of it, the feeling of speaking to someone without calculating each word for potential damage. Marcus asked questions and waited for the full answer before forming his response. He remembered details from previous conversations. He treated my opinions as data worth collecting rather than noise to be politely absorbed and discarded.We met three times in the week following his visit with Antonio, twice in the pack house and once at the school with Principal Davies, and by the end of the third meeting I had agreed to take the lead position on the inter-pack education cooperation program with a decisiveness that surprised me slightly. I was not, generally, decisive about things that were for myself. Things f
The Alpha's Regret Came Too Late Chapter 16
Chapter 16ANTONIOThe Moon Rite was in ten days. Annalisa had planned every detail of it—the ceremony that would formally end our marriage, that would allow me to claim Christiana as my Luna, that she had organized with the same meticulous care she brought to everything.After that, she would be gone. She had told me so herself. She intended to leave the pack entirely. She had said it simply, without drama, as a fact she had already made peace with.And here was Marcus Thorne, offering her something to go to. A position, a purpose, a structure that would make the leaving easier. Something that was hers.I thought about the earring on the dresser. I thought about her voice saying *I knew you didn't love me.* I thought about that infuriating composure of hers, that refusal to crack, that grace under the sustained pressure of my mother's cruelty and Christiana's contempt and two years of deliberate marginalization. I thought about her sitting across from me in the evenings with the fire
The Alpha's Regret Came Too Late Chapter 15
Chapter 15ANTONIOI noticed the way she smiled when she was genuinely pleased about something—not the careful, composed smile she produced in formal situations, but the real one, which was different and considerably more difficult to look at directly.She had smiled like that on the drive home from the Delacroix visit, talking about Marguerite's garden, and I had nearly missed the turning onto the main road.The domestic habits accumulated without my deciding to allow them. I found myself checking her schedule against mine—not consciously, exactly, but practically, in the way of someone who has begun to organize their day around an assumption of shared time. I found myself, in meetings, glancing toward where she sat and registering her reactions as a data point I relied on. When she made a small note on her pad—a habit she had when something struck her as significant—I registered it and waited for her to speak, and when she did, I had started giving her observations more weight than
The Alpha's Regret Came Too Late Chapter 14
Chapter 14ANTONIOIn the days following the banquet, Christiana did not return my calls.This was new. In all the months since she had arrived in the pack, she had never made me wait—had always been available, always eager, always present in the particular way of someone who understood that proximity was its own kind of leverage. Her absence now had the deliberate quality of a strategy, and I recognized it as such.She was angry. She was making me feel the weight of her anger by withdrawing, creating a vacuum she expected me to rush to fill.I did not rush to fill it.This was also new—and it was the part I found most difficult to examine, because it required a honesty about myself that was not particularly comfortable. The truth was that I was not chasing her, not because I had stopped feeling the bond, but because I was tired. The thought of the conversation I would have to have with Christiana—the reassurances I would need to offer, the emotions I would need to navigate, the caref
The Alpha's Regret Came Too Late Chapter 11
Chapter 11ANNALISA"You spent six months in the administrative archive before the wedding." He said it flatly, as if he had known this all along, which startled me because I had never mentioned it to him. "You know those records better than anyone currently on staff. The Beta has reviewed the maps
Huling Na-update : 2026-03-17The Alpha's Regret Came Too Late Chapter 10
Chapter 10ANNALISAThe days that followed the banquet settled into something I had never expected and did not quite know how to name.It began with breakfast.The first morning after the banquet, I had come downstairs early out of habit, slipping into the kitchen before the rest of the house stirr
Huling Na-update : 2026-03-17The Alpha's Regret Came Too Late Chapter 8
Antonio reached out his hand to me, taking mine as he repeated the words to Marcus, who was watching the scene unfold.“She is my wife. It's only proper I dance with her.”My wife.Not "the" wife. Not "technically" my wife. Just... my wife. Claiming me in front of everyone with simple, undeniable c
Huling Na-update : 2026-03-17The Alpha's Regret Came Too Late Chapter 12
Chapter 12ANNALISAI found the earring on a Tuesday morning.I had been straightening the bedcovers when my fingers brushed something hard and cool beneath Antonio's pillow. I picked it up without thinking, and then stood there looking at it in my palm for a long moment.It was a delicate thing. R
Huling Na-update : 2026-03-17
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