บททั้งหมดของ Alpha's Regret: Return of the Rejected Mate: บทที่ 351 - บทที่ 360

Penelope’s POVThe sirens woke me at four in the morning, their screaming cutting through my dreams. Before my feet hit the floor, my phone started ringing—multiple calls flooding in at once.“Eastern border,” Dad’s voice cracked through the speaker. “Three of them got through the fence. Big ones.”I threw on clothes and grabbed my gun, racing toward the border in my truck. The radio chatter painted a nightmare—three mutated wolves, bigger than anything we’d seen before, tearing through our people like they were made of paper.My fighters were scattered when I arrived. Some wounded, others trying to hide behind whatever they could find. The biggest mutant had cornered two of my people against a shipping container, its twisted spine and elongated limbs making it look like something from hell.That’s when Dominic showed up.His truck skidded to a stop and he leaped out, already shifting into his wolf form while he was still in the air. He crashed into the nearest mutant with bone-crushin

Penelope’s POVThe Council meeting started at ten, and by ten-fifteen I had to excuse myself to splash cold water on my face. Dominic’s voice came through the chamber walls, and the sound made my pulse race like I was some teenager with her first crush.This was getting ridiculous.“You okay?” Nora asked when I returned to my seat.“Fine,” I lied, gripping my pen so tightly it might snap.But I wasn’t fine. Every time Dominic spoke, heat flooded my system. When he glanced in my direction, my thighs clenched involuntarily. When he stood to point at something on the map, the way his shirt pulled across his shoulders made me bite my lip to keep from making embarrassing sounds.Twenty minutes later, I excused myself again.“Bathroom emergency,” I mumbled, practically fleeing the chamber.In the hallway, I leaned against the wall and tried to breathe normally. This couldn’t continue. I was a respected leader, not some hormonal mess who couldn’t sit through a basic meeting without getting ov

Penelope’s POVThe alarms dragged me from sleep at four-thirty in the morning. Before I was fully awake, my phone exploded with incoming calls—multiple lines ringing at once, creating noise that made my blood freeze.“Four packs under attack,” Dad’s voice crackled through the speaker, tight with barely controlled panic. “At the same time.”I was dressed and running toward the command center within three minutes, my mind racing as reports flooded in. Northern Hills pack reporting heavy casualties. Western Valley completely overwhelmed. Southern Ridge begging for backup they knew we didn’t have.The command center was chaos when I arrived. Phones ringing constantly, the chatter creating a wall of desperate voices, my staff scrambling to process information coming in faster than we could handle it.Three separate displays showed territory maps dotted with red markers showing breaches, and more appeared every few seconds.“How many fighters do we have available?” I shouted over the noise.

Penelope’s POVThe silence after battle should have been peaceful. Instead it made my ears ring with phantom screams. Bodies scattered everywhere, the metallic stench of blood thick in my throat, but I couldn’t focus on any of that.All I could see was Dominic.He stood in the middle of the carnage like he belonged there. Blood streaked his clothes and hands, his dark hair wild from combat. Those predator eyes still burned with the same intensity that had made my pulse hammer through the entire fight.Goddess, what was wrong with me? I should be thinking about casualties, about cleanup, about reports. Instead I was staring at him like some lovesick teenager.“We should head back to your facility,” he said, his voice still rough from shouting orders. “Debrief what happened.”The word debrief made heat coil low in my belly. We both knew debriefing wasn’t what either of us had in mind.“Yes,” I managed, hating how breathless I sounded.Walking back, I couldn't stop stealing glances at him

Kelsey’s POVI stood outside Alexander’s nursery door for the third time this morning, my ear pressed against the wood like some desperate stalker. Inside, Natalie’s voice bubbled with enthusiasm as she played learning games that sounded way too advanced for a ten-month-old.“Can you stack the blue block on top? Oh, what a clever boy!”My chest burned with jealousy. She talked to him like he was some genius baby, praising every little thing he did. When had she become the expert on what Alexander could do?Alexander babbled back something that almost sounded like real words, and Natalie responded like she understood exactly what he meant. My throat closed up. I used to know what all his sounds meant.Dominic was still away dealing with the fallen packs, leaving me here with this woman who’d stolen my place in my own child’s life. I’d been pushed out so completely that I had to lurk outside doors just to hear Alexander laugh.I knocked softly, my heart hammering against my ribs.“Come i