บททั้งหมดของ THE ALPHA’S PUBLIC REJECTION : บทที่ 141 - บทที่ 150

ANDRE POVI felt the pull toward Lillian as a constant buzzing current under my skin, but I had no idea how to approach her. Every instinct in my body screamed at me to go to her, to finally lay everything bare. But the fear of rushing her, of making her pull away, kept me rooted on the spot, with Lucas’s words from the corridor playing repeatedly in my mind. ‘While she is away from him, while he is giving you this ‘space,’ really try. See if there is anything there.’What was I supposed to feel? Grateful? Guilty? Hopeful? It was a tangled mess in my mind. When Lydia had joked about being the third wheel earlier, I then saw my chance. “Trust me, I am in the same lonely boat as you, Lydia,” I had said it deliberately, and then, I had felt it…a sharp, guilty feeling in Lillian’s energy. It was not pity. It was awareness. She had heard me finally.Throughout the awkward dinner, I kept stealing glances at her. She was trying to hide her laughter at Lucas’s desperate attempts to calm a fu

DRAKE POVI stood by the window, with a single jasmine flower held up to my nose, and it’s scent was just a ghost, a faint imitation that did nothing to soothe the storm inside me. The scowl that had been on my face since last night felt like it’s now turning permanent. Then suddenly, there was was sharp knock on my door.I sighed and placed the flower back in its vase with a heavy heart, and barked, “Enter.”Lucas and Andre walked in. Lucas looked exhausted, while Andre’s expression was neutral. Andre inhaled deeply and narrowed his eyes as they landed on the Jasmine in the window sill.Lucas did not even bother with greetings, he just walked over to the sofa and poured himself a generous amount of my best whiskey.I took a seat opposite him and looked up at the figure standing stiff in front of the door. “Andre? Are you going to stand there all day or will you join us?”Andre’s gaze rested on the flower for a moment longer before he finally sat with a rigid posture beside Lucas. “Fi

ANDRE POVI pulled up to Lucas’s mansion the next morning, nervously. Today felt different. The air felt different. My talk with Lillian, followed by Josh’s confirmation that she was considering my proposal, had made my senses be on high alert. I was not just here as a bodyguard today, I was here as a man hoping for a second chance.The front door flew open before I could even off the car engine and Salome ran out with a wide smile on her face. “Andre! Good morning!” She chirped and pulled me into a quick, tight hug as soon as I stepped out of the car.“Morning, Salome,” I said as I returned the hug briefly. But my eyes were already searching for her. “Is Lillian ready?”“She is just coming,” Salome said, as she pulled away to look at me with a knowing, curious glint in her eyes.And then, Lillian appeared in the doorway and my breath seized. She looked so tired with a lingering sadness hovering around her, but there was something else there too. A new determination. The energy seepi

LILLIAN POVI slowly walked down the stairs as I watched Salome practically fly out the front door and launched herself into Andre’s arms with an excited laughter. I laughed silently inside me as I thought to myself…where does she get all that energy from so early in the morning?Then I saw him. Andre. For the first time, I truly saw him. Not just as my body guard, or my friend, or the man that is bound to me by a mate bond. I noticed his strong jaw, the burning stare he gave me above Salome’s head, and the way he stood, so solid and dependable. Though my heart still aches for Drake, but Nyla, my wolf purred softly within me, her yearning for our mate was undeniable and strong. So then, I made a decision, from today, I would let my wolf’s emotions override my broken heart.I reached the bottom of the stairs and walked towards them and Andre gently separated himself from Salome with his eyes still pinned on mine. I stopped in front of him and took a deep breath, then I spread my arms w

DRAKE POVThe door clicked shut behind Lucas, which left me alone in the suffocating silence of my study with his words playing repeatedly in my head. ‘I miss the former Drake.’ Well, so did I. Goddess, so did I. I pushed myself from the desk as my body ached from hours of sitting still in one position, and staggered over to the huge oak designed mirror that was propped up at my bedside, and for the first time in three days, I actually looked at my reflection.I stared in shock at the man staring back. My hair was a wild unkempt mess. My lips was dark and crusty, and my eyes….my eyes were hollow and looked haunted. Lucas was right. I was a mess. I had been so lost in crying for Lillian and burying myself in Alpha duties inorder to avoid both the pain and Elara’s constant messengers, that I had let myself fall apart. But now it was time to stop.I walked to the door and yanked it open with so much force and called out into the empty corridor. “Servant! Now!”A young she wolf appeared i