The Alpha I Saved Ruined Me のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 1 - チャプター 8

The Unimaginable Wedding GiftTalia’s POV“Let all rise for our most beautiful bride, Talia Vale.”Mateo’s voice filled the hall, warm and proud, his voice made me feel like everything was going to be okay. The heavy oak door groaned open, and I stepped inside.The white dress I wore had been stitched together from three different pieces of thorn cloth. The flowers in my hand had been picked from the edge of the forest before dawn. The candles lining the aisle were mismatched stubs that had already burned halfway down. None of it was perfect, but it meant everything to me.The villagers rose to their feet, and the clapping started… slow at first, then fuller, and warmer. I saw Mrs. Beran pressing her hands to her mouth, her shoulders shaking. Old Harv, who never cried, was absolutely crying. Children who barely understood what a wedding was stood on their toes to catch a glimpse.I walked slowly, not because the dress was heavy, but because I didn’t want it to end. Outside these walls

The Man I Never KnewTalia’s POVThe silence that followed was the loudest thing I had ever heard.I turned slowly.The man standing beside me was not the man I had just married.It wasn’t something I could point to exactly. His face and, his whole body was the same. But something behind his eyes had shifted, the way a light shifts when someone adjusts it from another room. The warmth was gone. In its place was something settled and cold. His shoulders had squared without him trying. His chin had lifted. He stood like a man who had never once in his life needed anyone to stand beside him.I asked myself if I had spent months sleeping beside a stranger?“Valik.” My voice came out smaller than I wanted it to. “What is this? Why are they bowing to you? Why are they calling you Alpha?”He looked at me. Not unkindly, which somehow made it worse.“I lost my memories,” he said. “When rival Alphas attacked me, something in my mind broke. I didn’t know who I was when I wandered into this terri

Welcome GiftTalia’s POVThe slap was still burning on my cheek when I raised my face.I refused to look down. My jaw ached from where Valik had grabbed me on the road, my body was cold from standing in the basin, and every single thing that had happened since those doors burst open at my wedding was pressing down on me like a heavy stone. But I would not look down.Monica stood close enough that I could see the contempt in her eyes without needing a fortune teller.“A dirty… disgusting slave,” she said, letting each word land slowly, “bathing like she is a noble born.” She looked around at the other women with a short, humorless laugh. “In my own fortress.”One of the she-wolves beside her crossed her arms. “That is precisely why we are here. Someone has to teach her what she actually is and keep her in her place.”I turned my gaze to Monica. My voice came out steadier than I expected. “Who are you? And what gives you the right to put your hand on my face?”The woman to Monica’s left

Protection Without WarmthTalia’s POV“What is going on here?” Valik asked again.Nobody answered immediately.I rose slowly from where I had been crouching, my knees lifting off the cold stone floor. I straightened up and stood still and met no one’s eyes.The elderly maid smoothed her apron and turned toward Valik with the ease of someone who had been managing difficult moments for a long time.“Nothing is wrong, Alpha,” she said, her voice completely polite. “The human came to us saying she was hungry. We were just having a little chat with her.”Valik’s eyes moved from her face to mine. I looked away.“And the food on the floor?” he asked.There was a brief pause. The elderly maid glanced sideways at the woman who had kicked the trough, then looked back at Valik.“It slipped from her hand, Alpha. It was an accident.”I stared at the wall in front of me.An accident? I almost laughed. Not because it was funny, but because I had genuinely not known people could lie that smoothly and