All Chapters of Too Late To Love: I'm Gone Alpha: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

CHapter 42CHRISTINAThe sound of it was sharp and clean and the shock on his face afterward was genuine, which meant he had not seen it coming despite everything, which meant he still did not fully understand what three years of patience and positioning and waiting had built in me. He thought that it was only him who had performed sucha huge sacrfice by resigning himself to marry me out of misgplaced priorities, he doesn't know the mockery they make behind my back, about me being a placeholder and unloved, and had chased a broken woman away, only to take her place."Christina......" he started as i shook my head refusing to listen to a word from his mouth, knowing whatever came from his mouth was lies and deceit and i was done hearing them."I can't even look at you right now, Antonio. You disgust me." i spat out in anger as I turned and walked out of his study and down the corridor and into my own quarters and I locked the door behind me.And then I stood in the middle of my room a

Chapter 44ANNALISAThe second day in Greenwood territory started earlier than the first.I was up before six, dressed and at the small desk in our room by half past, going through the notes I had made the previous evening before the corridor had happened and derailed the last part of my night. I had lain awake longer than I wanted to after we got back from the cafeteria, not thinking about Antonio, or trying not to, which amounted to the same thing in practice.What I had landed on, somewhere around two in the morning when the ceiling had stopped offering anything useful, was a decision.Antonio was preparing to mate Christiana.The invitations were out. The date was fixed. The fittings were arranged and the planners were on the grounds and the entire estate was moving with the particular momentum of something that had been decided and was now simply being executed. He had stood in a corridor and said things to me and the ceremony was still happening regardless of what he said to me

Chapter 46ANNALISA"Yes," Dominic said.Advisor Brenn, who had been quiet until this point, spoke up with the slightly stunned quality of someone who was doing the math in real time. "Overlord of the Crimson Valley, I should say. Forgive me, Alpha Vael, I did not expect—" He stopped and started again with more composure. "We were not aware you were part of the visiting delegation.""I'm here with Dr. Voss," Dominic said. He said it simply, without elaboration, which was the most effective way to say it because the simplicity itself carried the implication that the two facts, him being here and him being with me, were not separate things that required individual explanation but one single thing that explained itself.Councilor Drey looked between us.I could see the question forming and I answered it before it fully arrived."Dominic is my partner," I said.I said it in the tone of someone providing a straightforward piece of information. Not a performance, not a declaration, just a f

Chapter 48CHRISTIANAHe still looked. But the edge had gone out of it, the desperate quality, the barely managed longing of a man trying to appear neutral and failing. He looked at her the way he looked at the other doctors now, with professional attention rather than the other kind.I felt the difference and it was considerable.There was a meeting, the third day of their visit, where Annalisa raised a question about the access protocol for some of the medical records required for the paediatric cases. She presented it clearly and the reasoning was sound and three of the doctors were nodding before she had finished.Antonio looked at me."As the Luna of this pack," he said, and the phrase came out with a weight it had not carried before, a naturalness that I felt in my sternum, "the final overlay on access arrangements runs through Christiana. She would need to approve the expanded protocol."Annalisa looked at him.Something moved in her face that she managed quickly, a brief recal

Chapter 50ANNALISAThe car had been arranged for eleven. It was quarter past ten. We had time.I was doing the final check of the room, the systematic sweep I always did because I had left things behind in enough temporary spaces to have learned the lesson properly, when I heard the knock at the door.Dominic answered it.The voice on the other side was low and careful and I came to the doorway of the bedroom to see Reyes standing in the corridor, his expression doing the specific work of a man who had something to say that he had been rehearsing and was not sure would land the way he needed it to.He looked past Dominic and found me."Dr. Voss," he said. "I was hoping to catch you before you left. I apologize for the intrusion."I came to the door properly. "Reyes."Dominic stepped back to let me take the conversation, which was a thing he did when he assessed that the person at the door was there for me rather than for both of us.Reyes looked at me for a moment and then said, "Can