Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Alpha's Greatest Regret: Kabanata 241 - Kabanata 250

Benjamin's POVI woke up at five out of pure habit and grabbed my laptop before my eyes even finished opening. Reports from Blue Moon were waiting, patrol updates, the council minutes Callum sends every single morning without fail. My hand was already on the lid when laughter drifted up from outside.I walked straight to the window. Down on the eastern training field my son was already running drills with Drake. Both of them wore sweats and their breath fogged in the cold air. Drake showed him a footwork pattern and Lucian copied it, tripped over his own feet, cracked up laughing, and went right back at it.I shoved the laptop aside and headed downstairs to join them.Drake spotted me first. "Look who finally dragged himself out of bed.""I've been up for an hour.""Sure you have."Lucian ran over red-faced and grinning. "Dad, watch this."He ran the drill again. His feet were still clumsy but his balance was better than yesterday. He finished and looked straight at me waiting for my

LISA'S POVThe first building came down right as I hit the edge of Blue Moon territory. Dust rolled hard across the road and swallowed the people running from it. Flames climbed the wall of a storage shed behind the dust, and a patrol truck burned against the fence.I stopped under a cedar tree and watched the whole place fall apart. Warriors ran in every direction. Some dragged the injured toward cover. Others shifted and chased the rogues tearing straight through the compound.Eric stepped up beside me. His dark jacket was gray with dust. He was the one who found me after the fall, half-dead and pinned in the rocks under the gorge. He dragged me off the riverbank, hid me while Blue Moon search parties walked right past, and kept me breathing until my wounds closed.I owed him my life. Then I found out he hated Benjamin almost as much as I did. Years ago Benjamin ran Eric's group off land they had claimed and never let them come back. Eric carried that grudge every single day since,

LISA'S POVThe old Alpha residence should have been dark and empty, but I moved in low through the trees anyway with the rogues spreading out behind me. Benjamin had walked away from this place years ago and left the garden to grow wild. With no lights showing through a single curtain, I expected nothing but a dead house.Instead, people were working all over it. I stopped so hard that Eric nearly crashed into my back."What is it?" he whispered.I threw my arm out to keep him quiet and stared at the house. Two warriors were already rebuilding the barricade along the east side, nailing fresh timber over every section my people had smashed. Another pair stood farther down the road with weapons ready, watching the tree line. My teeth clenched. They were putting it all back together like nothing had happened.A woman hauled an armload of blankets from one damaged house to the next. Two men fitted a new frame into a shattered window. Near the road a gray-haired warrior handed a little boy

ALICE'S POVI knew something was wrong the second Benjamin's name showed up on my phone that night.I was in the small room next to the kitchen sorting ingredients for tomorrow breakfast when the screen lit up, so I wiped my hands on a towel and grabbed the phone on the first ring."Benjamin?"His breathing came through the speaker, steady but heavier than usual. "Blue Moon got hit again."I stopped what I was doing. "How bad is it?""Bad enough that I need to stay here.""Are you hurt?" I asked, twisting the towel tight around my fingers."No. A few of the warriors are. We caught six of the rogues."Relief hit me first, then fear came right after it."What about Lisa?""She's still out there. We haven't caught her." He lowered his voice. "Alice, I don't want Lucian worrying about this."A floorboard creaked behind me and I turned around.Lucian was standing in the doorway.He wasn't supposed to hear any of that, but Lucian always heard everything the second adults started talking qui

LISA'S POVHours before I baited Drake into those woods, one message changed everything for me.I was standing under the trees watching the smoke rise over Blue Moon, expecting the usual update about another damaged wall or another injured warrior or another way Benjamin's life was getting wrecked. Instead the rogue holding the phone looked confused when he called my name.I turned around and brushed the ash off my sleeve. "What?"He held the phone out to me. "One of our guys intercepted a message that was leaving Shadow Moon."I took the phone from him. Most of the message didn't mean anything to me. It was just about patrol positions, injured warriors, and people moving between Shadow Moon and Blue Moon. Then one single line jumped out at me and stopped me cold.Protect Benjamin's son. Keep Lucian inside the eastern residence until the threat is over.I held the screen up so the rogue could see it. "Read that line out loud to me."He squinted at the phone. "Benjamin's son. Lucian."