All Chapters of Alpha's Regret: His Deceased Wife Was the Lost Love He'd Sought: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

48 Chapters

Chapter 1 Five-Year Contract

Sera's POVMy mother died, and my father said she died of an infectious disease. It rained the day I buried her.I stood at the grave and forced down my grief while the mourners came and went, one after another, until the sky darkened and something inside me went cold along with it. My father, the Alpha of Blackthorn pack, never even showed his face.I didn't cry at the funeral. Now that everyone was gone, the tears finally came, and I couldn't hold them back.I cried until there were no tears left. Then I pushed open the doors of the Blackthorn manor in a daze, hoping to find something of hers still left behind, and the sight inside cut straight through me.No white flowers. No mourning music. The whole hall had been strung with decorations, banners congratulating Catherine on becoming the new Luna and wishing Princess Hailey a happy birthday. The doors of the room that had belonged to my mother stood wide open, pink balloons crowding the ceiling. Hailey stood before an enormous bir

Chapter 2 Sorry, Your Mate Marked Me

Sera's POVI sat at the long dining table, chewing food that had no taste.The front door swung open. Cassian strode in with Hailey in his arms. She hung off him completely, both arms locked around his neck, her face buried against his throat, her golden hair brushing his jaw."Gently, Cassian, it hurts." Her voice was thin .The Healer hurried in behind them and said quietly, "Alpha, Miss Hailey's wound caught against something silver while she was cooking. To keep it from leaving any lasting damage, please give her a roomy, comfortable place to recover. She'll need at least a week of rest."Cassian's brow drew together. His eyes cut straight to me, and he said it the way he handed out tasks at the office. "Hailey'll be staying here this week. Sera, go pack up your things and move to the guest room for now. The master bedroom is on the ground floor, and the bathroom has the slip mats. It'll be easier for Hailey to recover in there."I set my fork down. The ache in my chest was so shar

Chapter 3 Liar

Sera's POVStaring at the photo on my screen, a sharp pain tore through my heart.In five years we had made love countless times, but Cassian had never once been willing to mark me.I had loved Cassian since I was eight years old.That year I slipped out of the house to play and found an abandoned cabin in the woods near the border. There was a boy locked inside. He wouldn't tell me why he'd been shut in there. He only said he hadn't eaten in days.I started sneaking him food every day, and I talked with him.Then one day the cabin caught fire.By the time I got there the flames had already burned through half the roof. A fallen beam had pinned his leg, and he lay on the floor unable to move. Everyone was shouting that it was too dangerous, not to go in. I climbed through the window. As I dragged him out, a burning splinter struck my left shoulder.The moment someone pulled us apart, his face was streaming with tears and he gripped my hand and wouldn't let go. The fire that hadn't yet

Chapter 4 Who Is Sea?

Sera's POVHailey glanced down at the exposed pendant and, almost without pausing, flipped the crescent over with her finger and waved the back of it in front of me. "You're seeing things, Sera. I've worn this for years. Look at the back. It's got my name engraved on it."I stared at the line of letters. It really did read "Hailey," in neat capitals."You can find moon pendants like this on every street corner." She smiled and tucked the necklace back into her collar, a thread of grievance in her tone. "You don't actually think I stole something of yours, do you, Sera?"I was silent for a second. The curve of that crescent, the thickness of the silver chain, were exactly as I remembered them.But her name really was engraved on the back. Maybe I was just being too sensitive."Maybe," I said, and drew my hand back, then turned and left.I didn't want to spend one more second in that place. I collected my release paperwork from HR, walked out of Nightfire Group, and took a cab straight t

Chapter 5 We Only Want Sera

Sera's POV"Enough." Griffin spoke, not loudly, but the lab went silent at once. He didn't so much as glance at Hailey. He turned to me. "Sera, I'll approve your paperwork today. You start officially tomorrow."Hailey's eyes went wide with disbelief, her voice rising sharp. "On what grounds? She hasn't touched research in five years! Your institute is funded by Nightfire Group!"Griffin turned slowly toward Cassian, his gaze cool. "Alpha, when you funded this institute, it was set down in black and white that all personnel appointments are mine to decide. Otherwise, with six northern packs lining up to fund me, why would I have chosen you?"I dropped my eyes. What the professor didn't say was that when those six packs were competing, it was I who went and pleaded Cassian's case, and the professor accepted Nightfire's funding only for my sake.Cassian was silent for a few seconds, and there was a flicker of confusion in the way he looked at me.Clearly he couldn't work out how a woman w

Chapter 6 Fire

Sera's POVThat project was my life's work, and I didn't want to see it fall apart at the very end.I nodded, then turned and got into a cab.At seven-thirty the next morning, Cassian pulled up downstairs at Alice's, right on time.I pulled open the car door the way I always did, and met a pair of provoking blue eyes.Hailey sat comfortably in the passenger seat, the leather already covered with a fluffy pink seat cushion. A carton of milk steamed gently on the console. The passenger seat that had once been mine alone was now buried under the things she'd planted to stake her claim.Cassian explained it evenly. "Hailey's foot makes things difficult. Take the back seat."Hailey gave me a sweet smile. "Morning, Sera. Cassian brought me along so I could learn the ropes of your job."From the driver's seat, Cassian's voice came out clipped, almost sulking. "You resigned, Sera. I had to find someone to fill the seat, didn't I?""Sure," I said. "Do whatever you like."The secretary's chair wa

Chapter 7 You Are Pregnant

Sera's POVBang!Just as I was certain I was dying, the burning fire door was kicked open from the other side by some enormous force.A safety officer from the conference tower charged into the blaze and hauled my half-suffocated body out.The ambulance took me straight to the Night Fire pack hospital.The old wound on my left shoulder, the one I'd taken years ago saving Cassian from a fire, had torn open again. The skin across my back and arms was burned raw, and the blisters wept fluid.I lay on the cold bed and waited a full half hour. Not one Healer came to tend my wounds.The corridor was a rush of running footsteps, nurse after nurse hurrying past my door, all of them headed next door.I gritted my teeth against the pain, reached out, and caught the arm of a nurse hurrying by. "Where are the Healers? I need painkillers and burn ointment."She glanced at me, an apology on her face even as her feet kept moving. "I'm sorry. Alpha's orders. Every medical staff member has been pulled

Chapter 8 She's Died?!

Cassian's POV"Alpha, Miss Hailey is four days pregnant."The Chief Healer's words rang through the quiet VIP room. I stood frozen, my mind going briefly, completely blank.Healers' gift let them feel the first faint pulse of a new life within days of it taking root, and read its age down to the day.Four days? Kyle died one month ago.My eyes went to Hailey on the bed. "Whose is it?"She clutched at the sheets, tears welling fast. "Don't you remember? Four days ago, you'd been drinking, and you mistook me for Sera."I couldn't make sense of it, my brows knotting hard. "That's impossible. I've never touched you.""You really don't remember? You held me the whole night and called me Sera's name. I knew it was wrong. But I love you."I dragged my memory back to that night. There'd been a full moon. Hailey had knocked over a glass and hurt her ankle, and I'd gone to look after her.She'd been low, remembering Kyle's drinking and the way he used to beat her, and she clung to me and cried

Chapter 9 Wreckage and Euphoria

(Cassian's POV)The phone slipped straight out of my hand and slammed against the floor.On the other end, Derek was shouting the details of the crash, but I couldn't hear a word of it anymore.Inside my head, my wolf Bryan was howling, out of his mind.He threw himself against my consciousness, clawing for control. My spine seized with a violent pain, my bones started to shift, and my shirt split open across my back there was no holding it back.The shift came fast and brutal. Two seconds, and I was in wolf form.I crashed through the floor-to-ceiling window in the living room and tore straight into the night.The cold wind cut through my fur, but it did nothing to cool the heat boiling under my skin.I ran north. Derek had said the plane went down in the snow-covered mountains to the north.A massive, pure-black wolf ripping through the streets in the dead of night. Cars slammed on their brakes. People screamed and scattered.I heard none of it.All I could hear was my own heartbeat

Chapter 10 The Bargain

(Sera's POV)Six hours earlier.I sat in the pitch-dark living room, watching the clock on the wall crawl toward eight.Cassian had promised, just yesterday, that today my birthday he'd be home by six, without fail.But I looked at the empty room and felt no surprise. No anger.He was surely at the private hospital ward right now, hovering anxiously over a pregnant Hailey.I stood up without turning on the light and set the signed Mate Dissolution Agreement in the exact center of the coffee table.I picked up the suitcase at my feet, ready to leave this suffocating place for good.Click.The front door swung open from the outside. The person walking in wasn't Cassian. It was his mother, Selina.Selina wore an expensive custom coat. Her gaze swept over the suitcase by the door, then to the documents on the coffee table. I stood where I was, calm, waiting for the tongue-lashing.But Selina didn't look surprised at all. She raised an eyebrow. "You think you can just walk away?"I didn't

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