All Chapters of The Alpha's Greatest Regret: Chapter 211 - Chapter 220

Alice’s POV He let that one alone. Stood close enough that I could feel the warmth off him, and gave me the minute. That's the kindest thing anybody's done for me since this started.And I noticed something while he did it.When I said I was in the supply room, not one muscle in that man moved.Anybody else in this territory would've said something — of course you were, or you can't be in two rooms at once. He took it and set it aside and his face didn't change at all.He already knew where I was that morning.I don't know how, and I didn't ask, and I'm not sure I want the answer tonight."Why did you really come?" I said. "It wasn't to give me the hearing."He took a while to answer."To see whether you were all right.""I'm fine.""You're standing in a dark clinic at midnight restocking a cabinet you restocked at four. That is not fine."I had nothing for that.His hand came onto my shoulder and stayed there a moment."Go home. Sleep if you can. Tomorrow's going to be worse than to

Benjamin’s POVI gave her nothing back.She took a breath and got it steady before she spoke again."If I tell that council everything they want to hear, will you let me leave Blue Moon?""That isn't something I can promise you."Her jaw came up half an inch."I have lost my daughter. I have lost my home. There is a guard on my door and a woman under my window." Her voice climbed. "What else do you want out of me?""The truth.""And if the truth finishes me?""Then it wasn't the truth that finished you."She looked at the floor a while. When she spoke again it came so quiet I nearly lost it."What if Lily wasn't supposed to drink that tea?"Six weeks.Six weeks I've wanted one person in this territory to say that out loud, and when it finally came it came in a side room with the door shut, out of a woman I had to lean toward to hear.Every part of me stayed exactly where it was. I didn't put a hand out. Didn't say her name. Didn't change one thing about how I was standing. Reach for a

LISA POVJohn held my eyes for the answer."Because he was finding the holes." John sat there without a word. "He had it written down — timings, doses, what was in the cabinet and what should have been. He was going to keep going until it came to me, and I thought if the notebook was gone he'd lose the thread. I went in for it. He came back sooner than I thought he would. He said my name. I panicked. My wolf came up before I'd decided anything, and after that he was down on the floor with blood on my hands."The room left the next part to me."I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you. I only wanted you to stop asking."John didn't say anything at all. He sat with his hands in his lap and looked at me and gave me not one word back.Rowan turned down the table. "Alpha. Do you have anything to add.""Only that she has said this freely, in front of this Council, without any promise made to her by me or by any man in my house.""Alpha Drake.""It matches the evidence. All of it.""Doctor Marlo

ALICE'S POVThey took her down to the holding level before dawn. I was at the top of the stairs by half past seven, asking to be let down.Sentenced prisoners go below. Supervised ones stay in the upper floor. Nobody had to tell me that.Two flights down, the air changed on the second one — colder, with that flat mineral smell buildings get underground, and under it, something worse coming up out of the drain in the middle of the passage floor.Six doors. Five stood open on empty rooms, mattresses stripped bare.Two warriors stood at the sixth. One straightened when he saw me."Doctor.""I'm here to see Lisa Scott."He looked at the other one, then got out his keys and let me through the gate into the short stretch of passage in front of her door."If she comes at the bars, step back." He said it flat, like a man giving directions. "They'll hold. Her arm is longer than it looks.""Thank you."I'd been afraid of her once. Five weeks of it. Not anymore.Lisa sat on the cot with her back

Alice’s POV The square was already full when I got down there that night.They'd put the lights up along the whole perimeter, the ones that come out for the winter market, and every family on that hill was standing under them. Warriors along the eastern side. The elders on chairs at the front. One of the lights had a fault in it and dropped out every half minute or so, and whoever stood nearest kept looking up at it instead of at the platform. Children up on shoulders because they couldn't see and weren't going to be left home for it.Drake found me at the back of the crowd and put himself in beside me and said nothing at all.Benjamin was up on the platform with Callum at his right hand.I'm not going to set down what he said. Every one of us sat through that hearing once. What I watched was the square.A man near me took his cap off partway through and held on to it with both hands. Two women who haven't spoken to one another since spring ended up standing shoulder to shoulder wit