บททั้งหมดของ Too Late To Love: I'm Gone Alpha: บทที่ 21 - บทที่ 30

Chapter 21 CHRISTIANA I had followed the Greenwood medical convoy to the Vael territory because I required an absolute, unfettered truth. That was the simple truth of it. I needed to see the genetic diagnostic report with my own eyes. I needed to verify if that child carried Antonio’s bloodline. The conversation I had pressed my ear against Reyes's door to overhear had not settled it. I had stood in that corridor and heard the conversation between REyes and Antonio but i had no idea what it had brought. But I had not stopped thinking about it. So when the Greenwood medical team departed for the Vael territory two days later, I had watched their car leave through the window of my sitting room and made my own arrangements within the hour. I did not tell Antonio. He would have stopped me, or tried to, and I was not in the mood to be stopped. He had not been picking up my calls, and had been spending time with Annalisa, i could only imagine what he was doing with her, trying to mak

Chapter 23 ANNALISA Eli finally succumbed to the sedatives at half past two. I remained frozen at his bedside until his ragged breathing deepened into a rhythmic murmur, his tiny, fragile fingers going completely slack inside my palm. With agonizing slowness, I disentangled my hand from his grip, ensuring I didn't disrupt his fragile sanctuary. I stood and looked at him for a moment. He looked so heartbreakingly young when he slept He was so young. He was only three years old, yet he had already logged more hours inside high-security trauma bays than any child should endure in a lifetime. Yet, he navigated the pain with a stoic, quiet dignity that eclipsed most adult shifters I had treated. I stepped out into the dimly lit corridor, pulling the heavy heavy door shut until only a microscopic crack remained. Dominic was waiting, which I had expected. He was leaning against the wall with his arms crossed and his expression doing the thing it did when he had information and was thi

Chapter 25 ANTONIO The revised execution copy materialized on my temporary desk at exactly seven in the morning. Priya had turned it around overnight, exactly as Annalisa had said she would, and every amendment I had agreed to was in there. I read it twice. Then I picked up the pen and signed. I did not feel good about it exactly. But I felt something close to relief. The coalition needed this. Sick people across multiple territories needed this. That was what I held onto when I set the pen down and looked at my signature on the page. Priya collected the papers and left without saying another word. I spent the rest of the morning wrapping up the remaining logistics with Dominic's administrative team. There was not much left. The framework was signed. The details will be handled as Annalisa as time went on. I packed what little I had unpacked in the guest quarters of the west wing. I carried my bag out through the corridor and down toward the main entrance. I was almost at the

Chapter 27ANNALISAThe week after Eli came home was the kind of busy that I was grateful for because it left very little room for anything else.There were arrangements to make and I threw myself into making them leaving no space to focus on things that i had no idea thinking about.The first visit to Greenwood territory was in three days.Just the two of us, me and Dominic, travelling to establish the working foundation. Meet the medical team there, review what they had, understand the gaps, start building the framework for how the collaboration would actually function on the ground rather than on paper. Three days, then back home.Three days away from Eli.That was the part I kept returning to as I moved through the preparations, the anxiety in me as i realized i would be without Eli for three whole days. He was stable. He was home. He was surrounded by people who knew exactly what to do and when to do it.I knew all of this.I was still going

Chapter 29ANTONIOI had expected a lot of things from this visit.I had prepared for them carefully, the way I prepared for everything. I had told myself I was ready. I had been wrong.Nothing about the way Annalisa stepped out of that car had matched what I had prepared for.She had been composed and unhurried and she had been holding Dominic's hand.That was the part that had hit first, before anything else, her hand in his, their fingers properly entwined, , the way it looked like something they did without thinking about it because they had been doing it long enough that it required no thought at all.I had stood at the entrance of my own estate and watched it and felt something tear loose in my chest that i had tried to suppress because i had no right to intervene anymore.Then Christiana had made her move with the Alpha and Luna tradition, which I had not asked her to do and had not been warned she was going to do, and i had seen Dom's exp