Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Alpha’s Pretty Mistake: Kabanata 51 - Kabanata 60

KolI looked at Liam as if he wasn’t real. He looked as if he had been dragged through the gutter and left to rot. There was mud to his knees, his clothes in tatters, the side of his neck was stained with dried blood. His eyes were caved in like he hadn’t slept for days.“Upstairs.” I said to him, flatly.Then he trailed me saying nothing.I opened the door of my study, stepped in and waited until he walked in before I banged the door shut. Then I turned.“Give me one reason I shouldn’t slit your fucking throat.”Liam dropped to his knees instantly. He didn’t beg. Didn’t even look up at me. He just stayed there like a penitent knight who’d failed his king.“I deserve it,” he said, quietly.The words did nothing for my anger.“You were my Beta,” I hissed. “My second. You held the lives of this pack in your hands. You knew my weaknesses. My faults. And you handed them to her.”His voice cracked. “I know.”I walked towards him, grabbing him by the collar and yanking him to his feet.“Wha

KolAria and I walked briskly through the corridor. She wasn’t panicking, not yet, but the urgency in her tone was impossible to ignore.“When Lira killed Jeremy,” she said with her eyes flicking between the tiles ahead and my face, “she told me she’d take care of his body. She said she’d give him a proper burial.” Her voice was lowered and tense. “Now his pack has shown up out of nowhere asking for a meeting.”My jaw clenched. “And you think it’s connected?”“It has to be.” She didn’t hesitate.I swallowed a groan as we reached the turn leading to the staircase. “Of course it is.”She touched my arm gently, slowing her pace. “What are we going to tell them?”I didn’t look at her. “The truth. That Jeremy came to see you and left a few days later. Nothing about secret meetings. Nothing about the hotel. And especially nothing about Lira.”She fell silent.“If they push,” I added, “Lira goes on the line. I won’t protect her anymore.”Aria didn’t respond right away. Then, with a sharp nod

AriaI knocked lightly on Jarek's guest room door, holding a tray of breakfast with one hand, well aware his breakfast was getting cold. But, it was not about the food, it was about seeing how my uncle was in all this madness."Uncle?" I called out softly.I opened the door and I found Jarek sitting next to the window. He sat with his arms crossed, this weariness in his eyes and his eyes were dark from sleeplessness. He looked older than yesterday. It was as if the news of Lira escaping had aged him even more."I brought breakfast," I said as I walked in.He looked up at me and struggled to smile. "You didn't have to.""I wanted to," I said putting the tray down and taking a seat across from him, curling my legs up underneath me.We sat for a while in silence."I can't stop thinking about her," I finally said. "Lira. What she's done. What she's become. And I can't help but ask myself if I should have seen it coming."Jarek did not respond right away. He was staring into thin air. "It'

AriaI hid in one of the far corners of the estate, away from the noise, away from the guards, away from Kol and away from Herald and his Luna. I brought my knees up to my chest with my arms hugging tightly around them, I let the tears come.I hadn’t cried for Jeremy. Not properly. Not once. Not when he showed up unexpectedly for my birthday, not when I found out what Lira did to him, and not even when his parents stood at our gates today with a convoy of vengeance and grief.But now… now I couldn’t stop.Heraldine’s words were still echoing through my mind. “You left him after everything he did for you.” And the truth was, she wasn’t wrong.I left. I walked away. I knew he still loved me. I knew the kind of man he was, the heart that beat so selflessly for me. But I couldn’t give him what he wanted. I chose Kol. Even after everything, I still chose Kol. And Jeremy, he paid the price. A price I’d never even grieved.I pressed my face into my palms and sobbed. Jeremy hadn’t deserved an

LiraThe cab was late. I stood under the unstable streetlamp, holding tightly my small locket in my palm like it was some kind of anchor. There were faint scratches on its surface. And with a trembling breath, I clicked it open.Inside, was the tiny slip of folded paper. The same one that had fallen back in the cell with Aria.I hesitated. Then slowly unfolded it. There, written in my own cramped handwriting, was an address I hadn’t read in years.I stared at it for a long time. I hadn’t planned to come here. Not now. Not until everything was over.But something in Aria’s voice had stuck with me. That moment in the mechanic garage when her eyes pleaded with mine, not for mercy, but for meaning. Every single confrontation I had with my sister and with Kol, always made me feel like I was the devil himself. Sometimes, I wanted to just surrender. Sometimes I wanted to hug my sister and tell her how much I missed her, tell her my secrets— secret. I wanted to give into redemption. But I l