All Chapters of The Alpha's Greatest Regret: Chapter 101 - Chapter 110

BENJAMIN’S POV The bond convulsed the second the gate shut behind her.I went down on one knee right there in the front path, barefoot, the mug already in pieces on the stone before I felt my hand let go of it. My wolf made a sound I'd never heard out of him. Not rage. The sound of something that understood, all at once, that it had been cut loose.The kids by the fountain quit playing. The groundskeeper looked over, then found something he suddenly had to do with his rake. I didn't need to hear a word any of them were thinking. I knew exactly what this looked like.Callum found me still folded over the wet stone. He didn't ask anything. Just got an arm under mine and hauled me up like I weighed nothing."Lisa," I said. It came out flat, wrong. "In my kitchen. In my shirt. Alice saw.""Rejection?""The words. Under—" I stopped. My hand went to my own chest, not to show him anything, just because it was still going after the place the pull used to sit. Nothing there to find.He walked

Alice's POVThe curtains were still drawn at noon.I hadn't slept. I was still in yesterday's sweater. The dinner tray Morwen had left outside my door was still there, untouched, the tea gone dark. I'd heard her knock. I hadn't answered.Benjamin's blue mug sat on the shelf where the morning light always found it.I picked it up. Turned it over in my hands. The ceramic had gone cold. Yesterday, leaving it there had meant something — a door held open a crack. Today it only meant I'd been stupid enough to leave it open at all.I set it back exactly where it had been. I didn't throw it. I didn't put it away, either.I dressed mechanically. White coat. No breakfast.I took the path that skirted the training yard instead of the one past the Alpha House.The children near the fountain waved. I forced a smile back.—The first patient was a boy with a scraped knee, working hard not to cry in front of his sister. On another day I'd have knelt to his level and said something to make him laugh.

LISA'S POVThe knock never came when I'd braced for it.I stood there with my coffee, still in my robe, and ran yesterday back through my head the way I used to replay a win. Alice in the doorway. Benjamin's face going slack with confusion on the stairs. Her voice, loud enough to carry all the way to the edge of the compound as she went out the gate. He wasn't coming back to me — I'd known that the second his aura rattled the windows and didn't stop for anyone. But she'd walked away first. That was the part I kept.Lily's tears had been real. That was the gift in it, the part that made everything else easy to build on top of. Benjamin let us in because a crying child leaves no room to say no. He made tea. Left his phone charging on the counter while he went to sit with her in the guest room.I stood in that kitchen a long time before I picked it up.Not guilt. Math. The shower was running upstairs, which gave me six minutes — enough to walk away and let the morning end the way it was

ALICE'S POVCharts. Patients. Medication rounds. Anything that kept my hands busy and left no room in my head. I came in before dawn and left after dark and did every piece of paperwork I usually handed off, all of it myself, because stopping meant remembering the kitchen — the shirt, the coffee, the question he'd asked instead of the one that mattered.Every corridor held something. The supply room where he'd once made Morwen laugh in the middle of an inspection. The window that faced the Alpha House. I stopped looking out that window. I kept my eyes on the floor when I passed it.I don't care, I told myself. I wasn't sure I believed it, and I didn't look at that too closely.Morwen didn't say anything. She lifted three appointments off my afternoon and handed the files to the junior nurse without a word. I caught her at it. She met my eyes and kept walking.Near the fountain, Lily was arguing with another girl about whose turn it was on the swing, hands on her hips, certain she was r

BENJAMIN'S POVI went to Morwen before anyone else."I need someone with Lily tomorrow morning. Someone she trusts. Not a stranger, not a guard." I kept my voice level, though nothing about this felt level. "The sentence is carried out at dawn. She can't be anywhere near the square."Morwen didn't ask why the sentence mattered to me enough to arrange this myself. "Cora's good with her. Lily likes the story she does with the puppets.""Have her stay the whole morning. Breakfast, games, whatever it takes. If Lily asks where her mother is, Cora tells her she's resting.""And if Lily doesn't want to stay with Cora?""Then someone stays with her anyway." She's nine. She doesn't get a vote on this one.That was an order to protect a child from a punishment I'd asked the council for. I heard it come out of me and didn't take it back.Morwen studied me a moment. "You could have let this happen without protecting either of them.""I know."She didn't press further. "I'll tell Cora myself. Tonig