Semua Bab Taming the Dangerous Alpha: Bab 51 - Bab 60

I will admit this much: I have made far too many mistakes in my life.Mistakes born of arrogance, of hunger, of a restless soul that never knew where to settle. I stumbled forward blindly, convinced that desire alone could substitute for purpose, that excess could drown out emptiness. And yet—despite all of that—I have always believed something with an almost foolish certainty.I believed that those mistakes were being slowly corrected.Not erased, not denied, but gently amended—overwritten and softened by her presence, little by little, like a careful restoration of something once badly damaged. Not the crude act of repainting over cracks, but the patient work of a restorer: filling fractures, smoothing rough edges, allowing the original form to breathe again.Everyone says their partner is the best. It’s one of those statements so worn down by repetition that it borders on parody—sweet, shallow, and impossible to argue against without sounding bitter. And yet, for me, it is simply t

“Mark me.”The words slipped past my lips before I was fully aware of them—light as a feather falling to the ground, yet in his eyes they sparked a wildfire.Fitch froze. His face was so close to mine that I could see my own shrunken reflection in his dark pupils, could see the subtle swallow as his Adam’s apple rolled. The room was filled with nothing but the sound of our mingled breaths, heavy and scorching.I didn’t regret it. Not even a little.When all the heat in my body gathered low in my abdomen, when his body hovered over mine and skin met skin in a shuddering exchange—that moment, what I wanted was more than just pleasure. I wanted a deeper brand, the kind of bond spoken of in legends, the kind that stitches two souls together. I wanted to become a part of him, as surely as a river runs into the sea.Then something clearer cut through the haze of desire and surfaced.I loved him.The realization didn’t arrive like a flash of lightning. It came slowly and solidly, like a tide

Fitch moved fast—so fast it was almost like teleportation. One blink, and he was already crouched on his knees in front of me. He tilted his head up to look at me, and his green eyes were like two pools of deep water violently stirred, pain churning beneath the surface, threaded with something close to fear. His gaze kept roaming over my face, back and forth, as if he needed to confirm that I was still here, that I hadn’t already shattered into dust.I tightened my grip on the down comforter clutched to my chest. Beneath the fabric, my skin still carried traces of last night—his warmth, the marks he had left behind. The realization made my stomach seize. The intimacy we had shared now felt like a wordless accusation hanging between us.His eyes dropped to my hand, still holding the phone, the screen glowing faintly. He moved slowly, almost cautiously, lifting the phone away

The door wasn’t locked.That silent permission pierced my chest more sharply than any rebuke. I turned the handle and pushed the door open a crack.Only a thin gauze curtain hung over the window. The filtered afternoon light drifted through the room, dull and unsettled. Sarah sat on the floor at the side of the bed with her back to the door, leaning against the mattress. She was curled in on herself, arms wrapped around her knees, like a discarded doll. She hadn’t changed—still the black T-shirt and jeans, bare feet on the carpet. She didn’t move, didn’t even turn around, but I knew she’d heard me.I closed the door and slid down against the cold wood until I was sitting on the floor, right by the entrance. An entire room lay between us, a distance like a rift valley.“I…” My voice stuck in my throat, dry as grit. What was I supposed to say? Where did I even begin?“Where should I start?” I finally muttered, more to myself than to her.“From the beginning.” Her voice reached me—calm,

The air between us felt heavy, charged with something raw and unspoken, as if the moon itself had leaned close to listen.Under my silent stare, the sharp edges of his expression slowly softened—like first snow melting beneath a fragile winter sun, revealing the breakable shape beneath. His jaw loosened. The rigid set of his shoulders eased by a fraction. But he did not touch me.That alone mattered more than he could ever know.The space he left between us was deliberate, almost reverent, as if he feared that even the lightest brush of his skin might shatter what little control he had left. My pulse still thundered in my ears, my wolf shifting restlessly beneath my ribs, sensing his pain, his fear, his truth. Yet his restraint steadied me. It loosened the knot in my chest—just a little.“They stayed together for ten years,” he said at last.His voice was low, rough, like stone dragged across the bottom of a river. It sank into the mire of memory, thick with things that had never hea