Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Alpha’s Pretty Mistake: Kabanata 121 - Kabanata 130

KolI was heading down the west hall to speak with Aria about a council report when I caught sight of her turning to the corner ahead. She didn’t see me.What stopped me wasn’t her walking away, it was the look on her face. It was cold and rigid. The kind of face she only wore when she wanted the world and everyone around her to believe she felt nothing. Behind her, just a few steps away, was Agatha. Her eyes were glistening with tears and her jaw was trembling as if she’d been holding something back. It was probably the tears.I stopped walking immediately. It didn’t take a genius to know that whatever had just happened between them wasn’t casual conversation. It was the kind of conversation that opened old wounds instead of closed them.I remembered the night I got mated to Agatha. I wanted Emory and Aria to be present. But they weren’t there. I always thought that me telling Aria I was going to make Agatha my mate was the beginning of our fractured family. No. It was the moment I

EmoryI sat in the black car Kol had prepared for our use to school that morning, drumming my fingers on the armrest. The first day at Moonlight School for Elites was supposed to mean something, a new start, a chance to breathe outside the suffocating walls of the estate.But instead, I was sitting here waiting on Mina and Gina.I leaned my head back on the seat and stared at the roof as though I could force them to go faster. Then, at last, the front door opened and they emerged.The first to appear was Mina, in demure attire and a tight braid, as though she was going to a formal conference and not an elite academy. She looked at me and smiled a little and then adjusted her skirt and got in.Gina came prancing out like her runway was the pavement with her tight mini skirt, a glamorous stylish hair and a clean, direct smirk.I looked at her and then told her bluntly, “Aren’t you going a bit overboard? Don’t you think it’s too much?”She gave me a look as though I had insulted her. “We

Emory So apparently, my mum and dad spent the day together. Well, it suits them, and that evening, after what sort of day she might have spent with my father, I suppose it was a good one, my mother came to my room that night. She knocked, came in once, with that expression of warm weariness in her eyes which I knew so well.“We were together today a little,” she said, sitting on the edge of my bed. “Your dad and me. Just walking and talking like we used to do. I don’t suppose I know how we are now, but it was not so heavy as it so often is.”I listened, and that is all that I ever care to do when she speaks about him. Yet in my mind, I was thinking of another person, completely.She continued, telling me what it was like to talk to him and not argue, how she could just get a taste of what it was like when they were happy. I nodded at the right times, asked appropriate questions. My mother wouldn’t admit it, but I would. She seemed happy talking about it. It was as if all Kol needed

KolI sat in my study, penning down how I felt and how I’ve felt about my mate. Not Agatha, Aria. I dipped the pen again into the inkwell, and ran it lightly down the page.“My dearest Aria,I do not just know where to start this letter because there are a hundred ways to start but none would appear sufficient enough to capture what I want to say. And what if I do not try at least, then I’m afraid I might never get the chance to say it at all.”I hesitated then, banging the edge of the pen on the table. The words were just not coming out as I would have wanted them to. Possibly, because they were not strictly meant to be on this page. They were meant for her. To be spoken. Held. Replied to. Yet I could not give her that, so at least in ink, I could give her honesty.Just as I was going on, the door opened.“Dad?” Mina’s voice slipped in like a breeze.I glanced up. “Sweetheart, come in.”She walked in with her uniform somewhat dishevelled and a book resting beneath her chest. She har

EmoryFriday.I’d waited all week for this day to come. Not because of some class, or because it meant the weekend was near, but because Rain was coming over after school. Rain. The girl of whom I had been thinking about all week and as well filling the white spaces of my canvas.I could not stop smiling in the hall before first period. I saw Jason by the lockers elbowing me.“She’s coming over today.”Jason didn’t even ask who. “Rain? Yeah, I figured. Don’t mess it up.”“I won’t,” I said with more confidence than I felt. “I got the snacks. Cleaned the room. Made sure no one would bother us.”Jason raised a brow. “You remember the part where she’s quiet and mysterious and not the type who swoons over setups, right?”“Which is why I’m keeping it low-key. Just us. Just... normal.”Jason patted my shoulder. “There’s nothing normal about you. Good luck.”On the ride back home, I sat in the car with Mina and Gina. Rain’s arrival was close and every tick of the clock made me more antsy.“I