All Chapters of Family's Regret After She Kneels: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

Aurora’s POVThe last days had been filled with chaos and confessions, but the two weeks that followed passed quickly. The tension of what I had learned lingered, but life inside the Red Moon Wolf Clan did not stop. Each morning I woke to the sound of Alpha Gray training outside before the sun had even risen.His discipline was constant, running, sparring, pushing his body until sweat dripped down his temples. After training, he would shower quickly and head to the corporation for meetings and paperwork.I filled my days differently. I spent more time in the kitchen with Lenora. At first, I only watched her, but soon I was chopping, stirring, and kneading beside her. We laughed often, sharing little tricks about recipes. She teased me when I spilled flour on my dress, and I teased her when she burned a batch of bread because she was too busy talking. These moments warmed me. They made me feel like I belonged here, like I was part of a family again.At night, Alpha Gray and I woul

Grays POVThe portal swallowed Aurora in a blink. One heartbeat she was standing a few steps away, chin high, eyes steady through fear. The next heartbeat she was gone, the air she had warmed turning cool in front of me.The bond snapped. It didn’t dim or thin. It broke clean, the way a cord cuts under a blade. The silence that followed felt wrong. I reached for her presence out of habit and found nothing. No pulse at the edge of my thoughts. No soft tug in my chest. Only a hollow that made breathing feel like work.Alfred surged up at once.Bring her back. His voice hit hard, raw with panic. Right now. We run. We break the gates. We take her home.I locked my jaw and planted my feet. “Stand down.”No. Claws scraped through the inside of my mind, loud enough to make my temples throb. She is ours. You let them take her from us.“She went to train,” I said. Keeping my voice even took effort. “She chose this. We agreed.”We did not agree to this emptiness.His anger rolled through me in

Aurora’s POVI knew that in the first few days after I left, Alpha Gray must have been drowning in pain. I pictured him alone in the apartment, silent and unmoving. He would stay on the balcony for long hours, drinking whiskey even though he had promised me he wouldn’t. His shoulders would be heavy, his hair messy from neglect, and the scent of his cologne fading under the weight of alcohol. I knew him well enough to imagine it, he wouldn’t shave, he wouldn’t shower, he would just sit in the shadows, letting the emptiness eat away at him.But I wasn’t doing well either. The ache in my chest was constant. No matter how much I tried to bury myself in work, it followed me.The witches said that training was the path to healing, so I threw myself into it. From seven in the morning until eleven at night, I pushed my body until every muscle burned. I told myself if I stayed busy enough, I wouldn’t think about him. But even during the hardest drills, even when my arms shook and my lungs b

Gray’s POVThe scent of roses hung in the air, mingling with the faint warmth of summer that clashed against the cold winds outside. I had barely taken in the strange beauty of the manor when I heard it, her laugh.That sound. Familiar. Soft, but filled with a joy I hadn’t heard from her in too long.I turned sharply, my chest tightening, and there she was.Aurora.She stood a few paces away, her figure framed by the arched windows of the hall. Her hair caught the light in a way that made her look different, stronger, brighter. She carried herself taller, steadier than when I last saw her. Her body looked a little fuller, her cheeks touched with color, her skin glowing with health.For a second, my breath stalled.And then I was moving.“Aurora,” I said, my voice hoarse, and before I knew it, my legs carried me faster, closing the space between us.Her eyes lit up, wide and shining. She broke into a run as well, her feet barely touching the polished floor. The sound of her laughter f

Gray’s POVI followed the guard down the narrow hallway. He gestured toward the small room at the end, just a few steps from Aurora’s chambers. When he opened the door, I immediately saw there were two rooms, one on either side of hers. Relief loosened the tension that had been locked in my chest all evening. At least she wasn’t unprotected here.Inside, the guard poured me a cup of water from a clay jug and set it on the table between us. His movements were steady, careful, almost respectful. He sat opposite me and studied me for a moment before speaking.“I wanted to thank you for trusting me,” he began, his tone steady. “Being assigned to Aurora is more than duty to me. I will guard her as if my own life depends on it.”I didn’t reply right away. I picked up the cup, sipped, and let him continue. His voice softened as he leaned forward.“I have a partner back home,” he said. “She’s everything to me. The thought of being away from her is hard, but when I see Aurora… I remember why