All Chapters of THE ALPHA'S REGRET : Chapter 161 - Chapter 170

*****DARRELL'S POV******The moment her eyes opened, the moment I saw those beautiful blue eyes flutter and focus on me, I felt like I could breathe again for the first time in a year.A whole fucking year.It’s been hell. A miserable, empty, endless hell. That I was even hardly myself. Every single second, every single minute of watching her motionless in that bed, hooked up to machines for a whole three hundred and sixty-five days, was a torture for me.But now she was awake. She’s back to me, looking at me with that bright smile on her face. And seeing that smile was like watching the sun rise after the longest, darkest night of my life."Darell," she whispered, and her voice was hoarse from disuse, but it was the most beautiful sound I'd ever heard.I moved closer to the bed, my heart pounding so hard I thought it might burst right out of my chest. "Thank goodness you're back," I breathed, my voice cracking. I leaned down, pressing my forehead gently against hers, our noses brus

******FLASHBACK*******(ONE YEAR AGO)As consciousness clawed its way back to me, my eyes flew open. I sucked in a sharp breath, gasping like someone pulled from drowning. And what I first felt was pain.Not the sharp, screaming kind of pain that makes you yell, but the slow, burning agony that starts deep in your bones and spreads outward, like fire devouring dry wood.Every breath felt like inhaling glass.Every tiny movement sent waves of torment tearing through me."Alpha."Aiden's voice cut through as he quickly rushed closer to my side.“Are you alright?” He asked but right now I am not.I turned my head slowly, gritting my teeth against the pain the movement caused. The only thing I managed to ask was,"How long?" My voice came out as a rasp, barely recognizable as my own."Two days," Aiden said quietly. "You've been unconscious for two days."Two days. Fuck!That has been quite long.I tried to sit up, but my body screamed in protest and I felt Aiden hand on my skin, gently p

Resting my back against the wall, arms crossed, I watched Alex through the observation glass. He stood there, staring down at his mother, his hands cuffed behind him with that metallic restraint—specially made for werewolves, nearly impossible to break. A white bandage wrapped around the place where his left ear used to be—a reminder of what Emma had done to him.I had ordered them to bring him here, so he could at least see her one last time and maybe....just maybe he might be the reason the doctor mentioned.No one was sure she’d make it and the doctor said her waking up depended solely on her will to live again, so I thought maybe if she felt Alex's presence, she might really want to wake up. Yesh I know that was crazy but I still decided to try it out for her. But seeing Alex standing their like a frozen fish, he's definitely not the one.Since I've found out it was him, I’d been wondering how to give her that will—something, or someone that worth living for. Then watching him

She turned to the doctor, her voice sharp. “You didn’t tell him, did you? That there’s another way?”My eyes narrowed. “What way?”“But I already told you about the risks….”“Just tell him!” She shouted at the doctor.The doctor hesitated before sighing heavily and then turning to me. “There is… theoretically, a procedure where we could extract the fetus and place it in an artificial incubator. If we did that, we could administer the antidote to both mother and child separately. The baby wouldn’t be filtering the mother’s dosage, and both could potentially survive.”I stared at him. “Then why didn’t you lead with that option?”“Because it’s never been done successfully with a fetus this young and already compromised—the poison is new and they’re the first case we’ve seen.” He said bluntly.“And moreover, the chances of success are extremely low because; it takes longer than the abortion, as we need to avoid damaging the umbilical cord, placenta, and blood vessels. The fetus must also

*****EMMA'S POV*****"You don't understand what I'm feeling right now!" I said, adjusting in my wheelchair, my hands gripping the armrests until my knuckles turned white. “ You have no single idea what his decision has…”"Yes, I do!" Carmen snapped back, cutting me off as if she had heard enough of my ranting. "More than anyone else. Em, no one, I repeat,no one—understands what you're going through more than me. But I need you to see the truth of what your death would have caused." She moved closer. "No one... not a single one of them would ever be the same again. Maybe if your family was ordinary like ours, it might be different. But you know the power struggles, the pressure, and everything that comes with your world."I wanted to look away, but she caught my chin gently, holding my gaze."Can Hailey survive it on her own? Can she navigate this world without you?”My hand clenched, my body suddenly feeling so cold as I remembered the prophecy that grandfather talked about and how