บททั้งหมดของ Alpha’s Dark Redemption : บทที่ 51 - บทที่ 60

Selina’s POVI thought the night had swallowed him whole, that maybe the storm I’d unleashed had driven him so far into the darkness I’d never have to see the wreckage in his eyes again—but I was wrong, because when the knock came at the door, soft but heavy, like it carried the weight of everything we’d destroyed between us, I knew it was him before I even moved, and when I opened it, there he was.Lucas.His face was pale beneath the bruises of the fight, his eyes hollowed out like he’d carved out the parts of himself that used to look at me with warmth, with love, with anything but this ruin. His hair was damp with rain, his jaw clenched so tight I thought it might crack, and for a heartbeat, we just stared at each other, two ghosts in the doorway of what used to be ours.“You didn’t have to break me like that,” he said, and his voice was quiet, too quiet, like he was afraid if he spoke louder it would shatter what little he had left holding him together.I didn’t answer. I couldn’

Jonathan’s POVThe city was mine tonight, mine in a way it had never been before, mine not as the polished man who smiled at cameras and shook hands with officials and gave generous donations at banquets and pretended to be just another soul swimming through the filth and glamour of this place — no, tonight, the city belonged to the creature that lived beneath my skin, the hunger I had caged for far too long, the predator that had worn Jonathan Ward like a mask and played human until playing human became a noose around my neck, tight and choking and intolerable now that I’d tasted the bitterness of rejection, now that Selina’s eyes — those beautiful, haunted eyes — had looked past me once again for him, for Lucas, for the man I’d tried so hard to outshine, to replace, to render irrelevant.And God help me, I had tried.I had been patient. I had been kind. I had worn my humanity like a suit tailored to perfection, smiling at her when all I wanted was to own her, to break her free from

Jonathan’s POVThe decision settled over me like a second skin, fitting so well, so naturally, that I almost wondered how I’d ever borne the weight of my human mask for so long, how I’d ever hidden this truth beneath polished smiles and tailored suits, beneath soft words and gentler touches, how I’d let myself believe for even a moment that I could win Selina’s heart with patience and devotion when the truth — the raw, brutal truth — was that hearts weren’t won by kindness, not hearts like hers, not hearts bound by fated bonds and ancient instincts, hearts that beat for wolves and war, not civility and control, and so I shed the last of my illusions along with the last vestiges of mercy that might have lingered in the hollow spaces where my soul used to be, and I gave myself fully to the predator.I moved through the city’s veins with purpose now, no longer aimless, no longer hunting at random, no longer feeding to sate hunger alone—I was choosing, and the choice was his, Lucas Blackw

Selina’s POVI paced the length of my room, the night pressing heavy against the glass of the windows, the city beyond seeming smaller, darker, as if even the lights of the skyscrapers couldn’t keep the shadows at bay anymore, as if the weight of everything that had been set in motion was creeping closer with every heartbeat, every breath that felt too shallow, too tight. Damon slept in the next room, innocent, oblivious to the storm building around him, and I hated it—hated that I couldn’t keep the world from bleeding through the cracks of the sanctuary I’d tried so hard to build for him, hated that even now, even after everything, I was powerless to stop it alone.I called Vera.I didn’t even think—I just did it, my fingers trembling as I dialed, my voice raw when she answered, as if she’d known I would need her tonight.“Selina?” Vera’s voice was soft, worried, a balm I didn’t deserve.“I need you to come over,” I whispered, forcing the words past the lump in my throat. “Please.”S

Grant’s POVI didn’t know what the fuck was happening, but the second I stepped into that room, the air changed, thick and heavy like a storm about to break, and everything in me—every instinct, every nerve, every goddamn fiber of my being—zeroed in on her, on Vera, on the human I had barely spared a glance for, on the woman I thought was just another complication, another liability, another reason for Lucas to grind his teeth in frustration—and in that instant, nothing else mattered, not the destruction in the city, not the trail of bodies we hadn’t yet solved, not the war that was coming, not even Selina, who I’d sworn to protect at all costs, because the scent hit me like lightning, like fire, like something so ancient and deep that it went beyond thought, beyond reason, beyond anything I could’ve prepared for.I froze.The words I’d been about to say—gone, burned away in the heat of that single, devastating truth.And I saw her. I really saw her, Selina's human friend. But not as