All Chapters of The Alpha's Widow Returned: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Memory: Fifteen years ago. A stormy night.I knelt in the mud, clutching Glen's broken body.His chest was ripped open. His heart was gone.Wolves roared around me."Who did it?! Lucia, did you see the killer?!"I lifted my head. Tears soaked my face. I opened my mouth—No sound came.It wasn't that I didn't want to speak.I couldn't.Outside the memory, the Judgment Grounds erupted."She opened her mouth! She was about to say it!""Then why didn't she—"The memory kept playing.Lena rushed in and slapped me hard."Stop playing mute! Say it!"My head snapped to the side. Blood filled the corner of my mouth.I only held Glen tighter as his body went cold. Shaking my head again and again."She's hiding it!" a wolf shouted."She saw it! She definitely saw it!"One wolf pointed at Glen's torn chest, then at me."Our Alpha's heart was stolen. That's our pack's shame! And what did she do? Hug the corpse and cry! How did the killer walk away right under her nose?!"Anothe

On that stormy night, the image was dim. The wolf behind the trees was nothing but a blur.But that single frame still made Nick jolt.As my scream ripped through the Judgment Grounds, the screen flickered again.Back to the stormy night twenty-two years ago.I shoved open the bedroom door.A strange wolf's scent slammed into me.Near the balcony, a slender figure flashed past—and disappeared.Glen was scrambling to pull his clothes on.His face burned red. His eyes were unfocused. When he saw me, he went rigid."...Lucia?"I froze in the doorway.That sticky scent clung to the air, stabbing into my lungs like needles.I didn't need to ask.I already knew."I'm sorry... I shouldn't have..." He stumbled toward me, words tripping over each other, reaching for my hand. "Lucia, listen. It's not what you think. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have done it, but I didn't have a choice!"The betrayal hit so hard it almost choked me.I spun to run—to escape the room suffocating me.Glen

When I woke, I was lying in the pack's healing room.Nick sat beside the bed, wiping my fingers again and again with a warm towel.I watched his profile.For a second, he looked just like Glen used to when he took care of me—except Nick's brows held a heavier, messier kind of grief.In the corner, Elsa leaned on her cane, her face dark as a storm.Lena stood beside her, eyes swollen and red.Both of them stared at me like they wanted to burn straight through my skin.The second my eyes opened, Lena lost it. She stormed over. "Lucia, have you lost your damn mind? For the murderer, you almost killed yourself?"If you hadn't fought to seal that memory—if you hadn't pushed back against the Mindfang Rig with everything you had—you wouldn't have nearly died."What are you trying to do? What do you want?"Elsa spoke slowly, her voice cold as ice."Do you even realize what you've done? You almost let Glen's murder stay buried forever. Are you really that cruel? You'd just let him di

"Nick!" Lena screamed. "Have you lost it?! Did you lose your damn conscience?! For this wolf—this wolf shielding a killer—you've turned your back on your father and the pack! You don't deserve to be Alpha!"The wolves outside the platform erupted too, hurling insults."Nick's a traitor! He's not fit to be Alpha!""He abandoned the pack for that wicked mutt—disgusting!""Make him give up the killer! Avenge Alpha Glen!"Nick fought like a feral wolf to reach the controls, but Elsa and Lena held him down.The operator finally snapped and reached for the switch."Alpha, don't blame me. I just want the truth. Alpha Glen deserves justice—and you deserve your name cleared."Nick's eyes went bloodshot. He roared, voice cracking with desperation."No! Stop! Shut it down! The truth can't come out!"But the operator had already decided. He cranked the power to its limit.The second the device fired up, a scream of pain tore through my skull—worse than last time.I screamed until my th

Caroline saw the resolve in Lena's eyes. In the end, she gave in.Later, she gave birth to Nick. Not long after, she left him beside my bed and walked out of Thanis without looking back.Strangely, after Nick came to me, the wolfsbane in my body started to settle. My condition stopped getting worse.Maybe it was the Moon Goddess showing me a little mercy—one small comfort after I lost my pup.But that comfort didn't last.When Nick turned six, my body started failing again.The pain kept coming back worse each time. Every attack hurt so bad I wished I were dead.Glen watched me suffer. It wrecked him.He couldn't take it anymore. He decided to head south, to some hidden pack—whatever it cost—to save my life.I begged him to stop. I told Glen seven years was enough for me. I didn't want to drag him down. I just wanted him to live well.But once Glen made up his mind, that's it. He wouldn't listen.I never imagined Caroline would show up right then.Glen's guard was down. She