Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Alpha's Greatest Regret: Kabanata 251 - Kabanata 260

BENJAMIN’S POVI knew exactly where Lisa was headed the second Callum started talking.“Her trail turned south,” he said, pointing hard at the map in his hands. “Toward Shadow Moon.”My stomach twisted so tight it actually hurt. Lucian was there.Callum was already folding up the map. I called Damian right away and started pacing next to the truck. He answered before the phone even finished its first ring.“I know,” he said.“Is Lucian safe?”“Yes. I put extra guards on the house the moment Alice got your message.”“Move him,” I said.Damian went quiet for a second. “Where do you want me to take him?”“Somewhere Lisa can’t get to him. Anywhere else.”He let out a long breath. “Benjamin, Shadow Moon is already the safest place we have.”“It was safe for three years but not anymore.”“I will have him move to a safe house tonight”I hung up and turned to Callum. “We’re going back right now.”The drive to Shadow Moon felt like it took forever. Callum rode in the second truck behind us. Dr

BENJAMIN’S POVCallum lowered his phone, and the look on his face told me right away that I was already too late.“The rogue they caught at the outer boundary talked,” he said, shoving the phone into his pocket. “She’s not after the pack. She’s after Alice.”We were standing at the northern border post with a dozen warriors spread out through the trees. Lisa’s rogues had stopped attacking Blue Moon hours ago, and that should have made me feel better, but instead my skin crawled because I knew something worse was coming.“She knows Alice is at Shadow Moon,” I said. “And she knows Lucian is with her.”Drake shifted his weight against the fence post. His face was gray and his jacket was zipped up over the bandage on his side. “So we don’t give her a straight line to them.”“Get back to the house,” I told him.He gave me a tired look. “You already tried that.”“You nearly died today.”“And I’m still standing here.”Damian came up the trail with David right behind him, carrying a folded ma

LISA’S POVI had pictured this moment so many times that I thought I knew exactly how it would feel, but I was completely wrong. Lucian sat on the ground under the old oak with his back against the trunk and his hands loosely tied at the wrists. And the second I saw him I realized he looked just like Benjamin with those blue eyes, dark hair, and the same jawline. He was alive and breathing right in front of me after I had spent years believing Alice's son was dead and buried, and that hit me harder than I ever expected."Are you Lisa?" he asked so quietly I almost didn't hear him."You already know who I am," I said."I'm Lucian." He said his own name carefully, like he was testing whether it was safe to say it to me.I crouched down near him and pressed my hands flat on my knees. "Your mother got to keep you," I told him.He frowned. "My mom?""Alice."His whole face softened at her name. "She's my mom."Something twisted hard in my chest. "She got to keep you, and I lost my daughte

ALICE’S POVI saw Lucian before I saw anything else, and nothing else in the clearing mattered once I did.My son was sitting under the oak tree with rope tied around his wrists. His skin looked white as paper, and his eyes stayed locked on me. “Mom.”That one word cut straight through me. I started walking toward him right away.Lisa stepped sideways and blocked my path. “Stay there.”I stopped, but only because she was holding a knife. Across the clearing Benjamin stood with both hands raised high in the air, and a rogue stood behind him holding a syringe full of wolfsbane.“Let Lucian go,” I said.Lisa looked at me for a long time. “You should understand what this feels like,” she said, quieter now. “You should know what it means to lose a child.”“I do. For three years I believed there was a grave somewhere with the child I gave birth to in it. I learned how to go to work every day with a piece of me missing. I learned how to smile when people asked if I was okay and say yes every

ALICE'S POVThe house finally felt quiet. Lisa was locked up. The rogues were either caught or running for their lives. Benjamin had promised her sentence would be carried out this time, and for the first time in days I believed we might actually sleep through the night.But safety hadn't answered the question Lucian had asked before the attacks ever started.Where was he going to live?I found him cross-legged on the sitting-room rug, the little wooden wolf sitting guard beside a messy stack of drawings. He was rearranging his soccer cards for the third time, sliding the same three back and forth like the order might suddenly make sense. Benjamin sat nearby pretending to scroll his phone, but his eyes kept flicking to our son.I sank down beside Lucian and smoothed his hair. "You're working really hard on those cards.""They won't stay in the right order." He moved one, frowned, and put it back. "Maybe they're supposed to be mixed up.""Maybe," I said softly. "Or maybe you're thinkin