All Chapters of The Alpha's Greatest Regret: Chapter 121 - Chapter 130

146 Chapters

0120: The Wrong Name

Alice's POVI woke up before sunrise. Got dressed in my usual outfit, a pair of blue jean and blouse, buttoned my coat, and gathered my work files. At the door I looked toward the path Benjamin used to take with breakfast — it was out of habit, more than anything else. It was Empty."Good," I said, to no one, and went to work.The groundskeeper was already out front, sweeping frost off the steps, humming something with no tune to it, like it was any other morning. It was, for him. I envied him for that. He didn’t have to think about the parent who were scared and waiting for the test results of their children to return. That was a weight I had to carry, among many other things.The clinic woke up slowly around me. A sprained ankle, some bloodwork, a boy who needed stitches and was trying so hard not to cry in front of his father.I knelt down to his level. "Hey. That's a pretty impressive cut. Good scar to show your friends.""Will it hurt?""A little. I'll be careful. Can you be brav

0121: He Didn't Look Back

Alice's POV"Dr. Watson, we need you in room two."I was already moving before the sentence finished — a boy, maybe seven, wrist bent wrong, his mother pale beside him. Stabilized, splinted, calm enough to stop crying by the time I was done. His mother thanked me twice on her way out.It was only once the bay emptied that I noticed the crate of supplies still sitting unopened by the door. Garrett had dropped it off. Not Benjamin. I stood there a second too long before I made myself move on.It wasn't only the crate. The small things had been pointing the same way for days. The security report came through a council runner now. The renovation inspection got postponed with no explanation. The standing Tuesday check on the children's ward — the one he used to show up for without either of us ever calling it an appointment — simply didn't happen. Nobody mentioned it. I noticed anyway.Lunch break rolled around, Morwen brought out two cups of tea. We sat a while before she said, "The Alpha

0122: Stories I Never Knew

BENJAMIN'S POVThe memorial had been Callum's idea. "You've been going to that tree alone for three years," he'd said. "Maybe it's time to let the pack mourn with you."I told myself I didn't need it. I just didn't have the argument left to make that stick anymore.I spent the hour before it carving a new wolf, the same knife I'd used on the first one, back when my hands were steadier and hadn't yet learned what grief does to a grip. The ears came out too long tonight. The tail too thin, twice over. I set the unfinished shape down on the bench and let it stay that way. The pack was already gathering.Word had gone out through the elders — no ceremony, just an invitation. Sunset at the grove, anyone welcome.By dusk the yard was full past what I'd braced for, and my hands wanted a knife in them for reasons that had nothing to do with the crowding. Families with kids. One boy kept climbing the low wall that ringed the clearing until his mother hauled him back by the hood of his coat,

0123: The Man He Wasn't

ALICE'S POVBack in my quarters, I closed the door and stood in the dark a while, trying to breathe. I could still feel the grass cold under my knees on Lucian's memorial stone. The stone small and white, too new even then. I hadn't stood in front of it since days ago.I shut the my mind on the memorial and had the phone in my hand before the quiet could settle. If I didn't call him now, I wouldn't call him at all.Damian picked up on the second ring. "Alice.""Benjamin held a memorial tonight. For Lucian. The whole pack came. People told stories about him I'd never heard. He wanted to be a patrol guard. He told someone else. He never told me.”Damian went quiet a beat. "What else happened?""He asked to visit the grave. At Shadow Moon."Silence. Then: "And you want me to welcome him into my territory.""I want you to let him stand at his son's grave. Whatever else he's done — Lucian was his too.""He left that son on the side of a road to die. Did you forget that part already?.""I h

0124: Organize Your Cowardice

JOHN’S POVThe quarterly inventory count was the one job at the clinic nobody ever fought me for.Two hundred line items, a clipboard, a storeroom with no windows, and a whole afternoon of counting gauze. Morwen usually did it. This quarter I’d volunteered before she’d even finished asking, because counting gauze meant three hours where my hands and my head both had somewhere to be that wasn’t Alice’s office.I was forty items in when Drake turned up in the doorway, leaned on the frame, and watched me recount a box of sutures I’d already counted once.“They multiply if you look away?”“I lost my place.”“You wrote the number down. It’s right there on the paper.” He came in, uninvited, and settled onto the one stool like he’d booked it in advance. “You lost your place after you’d already found it. That’s a new thing.”“Aren’t you supposed to be packing?”“Packed. Bag’s by the door. Came to say goodbye.” He said it easy, no weight on it at all. “Damian wants me back at Shadow Moon. Som

0125: No Pulse

ALICE’S POVBenjamin’s message came in while I was still working my arms into my coat. If you have a few minutes before clinic hours. I’d like to discuss something. I stood there with the one sleeve on and read it twice. Then I told him yes — not because I was ready, but because for once the thing to discuss had a name. Lucian.The compound was coming awake around me. Children ran for the school yard with their bags bouncing off their backs, and Lily was right in the middle of them, showing off a fresh scrape on one knee. She spotted me and waved. Her whole arm went up, elbow and all, nothing in it held back.I waved back. She grinned and kept running.—Benjamin was waiting outside the Alpha House. Not in it.“Is everything all right?” he asked.“I spoke with Damian. He agreed. You can visit Lucian’s grave, when the family’s ready.”He shut his eyes. For a few seconds he didn’t say anything, hands at his sides, his breathing gone uneven.“Thank you.” He reached for my hand. Instinct,

0126: She Trusted You

BENJAMIN'S POVCallum was already moving when I caught sight of him, and his face said it before his mouth got the chance."Alpha. You need to come.""Alice?"He hesitated. "…The clinic."I was past him before he finished the word.Down the corridor, through the doors, across the compound at a dead run. A groundskeeper stopped mid-swing, the rake still hanging in his hand, and just watched me go. Two women by the fountain went quiet all at once. Somebody said child and I didn't slow down long enough to hear the rest of it. People stepped clear of me the second they saw my face. Nobody near the training yard was talking above a murmur, and that was worse than any shouting would have been.My territory had gone wrong somewhere — that thing every Alpha carries for his own ground, the sense that tells you a death has happened where a death had no business happening. It was not the bond I share with Alice. That had been cut a long time ago, at the ritual words, and this wasn't that grief

0127: Grief Had A Price

LISA'S POVI remember this morning. Every piece of it.Lily had brushed her own hair, tongue caught between her teeth in full concentration, that same fierce look she'd worn every morning for weeks now — telling me she didn't need help anymore. She missed a knot near the back. I should have fixed it. I let her have the pride instead."I want cereal," she said at breakfast. "Not toast.""We don't have cereal, baby.""You said you'd buy some.""I did say that." I laughed, small and warm, the kind of laugh that made forgetting sound like a gift I'd been saving for her. "I forgot.""You always forget." A sigh big enough for a nine-year-old carrying the whole weight of the world. "Fine. Toast."She ate it standing up, crumbs going all over the floor I'd just swept. I didn't scold her. I should have scolded her — should have made her sit, made her chew, made her stay one more minute at that table."Can I visit Dr. Watson after school? I made her a new drawing. A blue wolf. Like the one I ma

0128:No One Left

LISA'S POVSorin walked on my left. Callum a step behind. Nobody said anything the whole way back to my door. Someone had put a coat over my shoulders at some point. I couldn't have told you whose. Whoever did it had meant to shield me from the cold but what about the pain of losing the one person in my life that meant everything to me.I hated every second my feet took me further away from the clinic. But what I hated more is the house behind us still holding somebody's whole family, still breathing like the compound hadn't just lost the reason i was breathing for.At my door they waited to be asked in. I shrugged off the coat off my shoulders and handed it back to Callum and put my hand flat on the frame instead."I want to be left alone."Sorin hesitated. "Lisa—""Please." The word cracked down the middle. "I need to be alone."She nodded, slow. "If you need anything at all—""I know."They left. I locked the door behind them and stood in the dark with my hands folded into fist. Th

0129: The Pack Turned Their Backs

ALICE'S POVIt’s barely twenty four hours since Lily and I haven’t moved from where I sat on the floor in my room. I wasn't a prisoner. Nobody had said I couldn't leave but I couldn’t get my legs to function without feeling like I was falling.I could still see her face this morning, on her way to school waving at me. How did she end up in my office dead. And to think she had drank from my cup.No matter how much I try, I still can’t wrap my head around what happened. Rather than just sat around wondering, I decided to make my way back to where it all started.The walk to the clinic should have taken five minutes. It took twice that, and not because I walked slow. Every step cost something.The fountain sat empty. The children who usually circled it had been kept home. In the training yard, warriors stopped mid-spar, hands still on their hilts, eyes following me across the compound like I was something that might go off.Sena pulled her daughter in behind her skirt as I passed. Anothe

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