All Chapters of Alpha's Regret: His Deceased Wife Was the Lost Love He'd Sought: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

48 Chapters

Chapter 11 A Thirty-Million-Dollar Gift

(Sera's POV)The wind on the mountain sliced across my cheeks like knives.I stood behind the perimeter line the rescue crews had set up, watching the wreckage from a distance, my eyes cold.Cassian was like a beast that had completely lost its mind. He wove through the flames, tearing open red-hot metal with his bare hands.I could see clearly that the skin of his hands scorched, his nails split, blood everywhere.Derek and the others tried to hold him back, and he flung them off like ragdolls.My heart sank, inch by inch. My hands and feet went ice-cold.Selina had been right. I'd badly underestimated Cassian's obsession, his need for control.Even if I'd burned to ash, he would have turned the entire mountain over to find it.I pushed down the tangle of emotions rising in me, took a deep breath, parted the crowd, and stepped forward. "Cassian."I called out calmly, as if I'd only just arrived.Cassian's head whipped around. The instant he saw me clearly, his dark gray eyes erupted w

Chapter 12 The Silvermoon Medallion

(Sera's POV)I raised my hand and knocked on the battered wooden door.It was yanked open. The moment I got a clear look at the woman on the other side, I froze in place.She had a mess of red hair, and she was holding a glass test tube dripping green liquid. The second she saw me, the tube slipped from her hand and shattered."Sera?" The witch Elara's eyes went wide with shock. "Selina's so-called 'big client' is you?"Elara was an old friend of mine. Years ago, when I was hiding my identity and developing heat suppressants at the research institute under the name "Sea," I ran into bottleneck after bottleneck that pharmacology alone couldn't solve.It was Elara who helped me with her magic. We'd worked together more times than I could count. She was the finest witch in the entire underground market.Elara pulled me inside and hugged me hard. "God. You're going to fake your own death? What did that bastard Cassian do to you?"I didn't explain much about Hailey or the contract. Elara wa

Chapter 13 A great-grandchild

(Sera's POV)"I need a little more time to figure out who poisoned her, and how they got past the Blackthorn guards to do it," Elara said quickly on the other end. "Sera, wait for my word.""All right." I hung up, drew a deep breath, and forced myself calm.I couldn't afford to be reckless. I had children in me, and there were still five months until the perfect fake death. I had to see it through.I hadn't set the phone down before the screen lit up again. Grandmother Eleanor."Sera, the doctor's letting me out today!" Grandmother sounded unusually cheerful. "When are you coming home? I miss you."Listening to her happiness, my heart ached, sour and sharp.Grandmother's illness came and went. Everyone knew, without saying it, that every "improvement" could be the last flare of a candle before it went out.I breathed in, pressing down the sting in my nose. "I'll come home tonight and stay with you."When I walked out of the building after my shift, I stopped dead.Cassian was leaning a

Chapter 14 Sea s Private Contact

(Sera's POV)It was hard, almost desperate, as if he was trying to convince himself as much as me.I could feel it, clearly the babies inside me, straining, greedy for the comfort of its father's powerful Alpha energy.I froze for an instant, and in that one second's gap, Cassian deepened the kiss, taking, insistent.The next moment, his hands wrenched, and the silk nightgown ripped away from my body.His large, searing palm immediately covered my full breast, kneading and squeezing it firmly.A moan escaped me before I could stop it.He lowered his head, taking my erect nipple into his mouth; he teased it with frenzied licks of his tongue, occasionally grazing it with his teeth.Pregnancy had left my body unbearably sensitive, and the sharp pleasure hit my brain all at once."You're wet," Cassian rasped, his hand trailing down over my flat stomach and lower, slipping between my thighs.His fingers found the slick heat there. The rough pads of his fingers pressed firmly against my sen

Chapter 15 The Sky-High Commission

(Sera's POV)Around noon, the centrifuge in the lab hummed low.I hadn't slept all night and was pushing through my experiments on fumes.Professor Griffin came over to my bench and handed me a tablet. "Sera, a high-value commission just came in. The client's offering twenty times market rate. They asked for 'Sea' by name to take it personally a custom heat suppressant made just for them."I stopped the test tube I was swirling. "Any special requirements for the formula?""Extremely demanding." The professor pointed at the terms on the screen. "Only the most expensive ingredients. Highest possible potency. And absolutely zero negative effects on the user. In this whole industry, you're the only one who can produce something at that level. Are you taking it?"I took the tablet and my eyes ran down to the electronic signature at the bottom.My breath stopped.Client: Nightfire Group. Signatory: Cassian.I stared at those letters, and for a moment my mind went blank.Then a wave of nause

Chapter 16 Miss You

(Cassian's POV)Soft music played in the maternity store. Hailey said she wasn't feeling well and couldn't stay on her feet long, so I sat her on the leather sofa in the lounge area and had the salesclerks bring the merchandise to her.The moment her eyes lingered on anything for even a second, I had it wrapped soft cashmere blankets, temperature-controlled bottles, a self-rocking crib.In under half an hour, the cart was piled up like a small mountain.Money like this meant nothing to me. I could buy out a thousand stores like this without blinking.I watched Hailey's profile as she picked out baby clothes, and against my will my mind slid back to that fire more than a decade ago.In the rolling smoke, a little girl had charged into the burning cabin without a thought for herself and dragged me back from death. I'd held her ash-covered hand and sworn that once I became Alpha, I'd come back and marry her.But I broke that promise. Grandmother forced me to marry Sera at the threat of h

Chapter 17 Marry Me

(Hailey's POV)I stood outside the CEO's office holding the black coffee I'd just made. The heavy wooden door was ajar, not fully shut."Sera, come back to work." Cassian's low voice drifted through the gap. There was a note of pleading in it, almost too faint to catch.Sera's voice came from the other end. I couldn't make out what she said, but it lasted only a few seconds. Then the dead tone of a call cut off.Cassian didn't move. He sat behind his desk, gripping his phone, staring in silence at the darkened screen.I froze outside the door, my fingers clamped so hard around the cup handle that my knuckles went white.I'd seen all of it these past few days Cassian's distraction.He'd dropped me at the maternity store to chase after Sera. He'd said nothing the whole ride back. He'd drifted off constantly at work. And now he'd called Sera himself.Cassian was a coldly rational, iron-willed Alpha. He never showed this kind of restlessness, this needy uncertainty, over anyone he didn't

Chapter 18 A Mother's Plea

(Cassian's POV)I was in my office working through documents when the door suddenly opened. I looked up and saw Selina walk in, her face deadly serious.She turned, shut the door hard behind her, and came straight to my desk."The baby Hailey's carrying is it yours?" No greeting, blunt and direct.The pen in my hand froze mid-signature. I looked up, caught off guard.I met her sharp eyes, went quiet for a few seconds, and finally nodded. "It is."Selina drew a deep breath, braced both hands on the desk, and stared down at me. "Then when are you dissolving your bond with Sera?"My face went cold, and I threw the pen down. "I'm not dissolving anything. It's my private business. I'll handle it.""Private business?" Selina's voice rose, her eyes full of disappointment and accusation. "Cassian, how can you be this irresponsible? That's your own flesh and blood. Do you want Nightfire's Alpha heir to grow up a bastard, hidden from the light, whispered about behind his back his whole life?"I

Chapter 19 What If I Were Pregnant Too?

(Third-person POV)Sera hadn't expected to run into Cassian here either.She'd come because Gamma Vince's daughter a little six-year-old had suddenly developed severe symptoms of a blood disorder: a wildly accelerated heart rate, blood flowing backward, difficulty breathing, deteriorating fast.Several healers had been at a total loss, and they'd finally turned to Professor Griffin and Julian.Julian was fascinated by the case the symptoms matched, almost perfectly, a rare class of blood anomaly he'd been tracking.He had something else to attend to today and couldn't come, so Sera went in his stead, as Julian's assistant, to assess the child.To avoid exposing her identity and jeopardizing the fake death and her escape from the pack, she'd been working at the institute under the guise of a junior assistant. No one knew she was Sea.Vince saw Cassian walk in and jumped to his feet to bow. "Alpha what brings you here?"Cassian's eyes swept over Vince, and he frowned. "Why are you he

Chapter 20 Stay Out of It

(Sera's POV)Cassian froze where he stood. His throat worked, his dark gray eyes locked on me, his lips opening and closing without a single sound.He couldn't answer.I looked at the taut line of his jaw, and that last faint flicker of hope I hadn't even wanted to admit to myself went out completely.I never should have asked.From the moment he sent every healer in the hospital to guard Hailey. From the moment he fastened my birthday necklace around Hailey's throat. From the moment he pushed a cart through a maternity store buying baby things at her side the answer had been sitting there all along.I'd just refused to accept it. I wanted to hear him say it, once, with my own ears.And in the end, he didn't even dare lie to me."You don't have to answer," I said, pulling my gaze back, hiding the disappointment in it."Sera!" Cassian burst out, a rare urgency in his voice.He reached out to grab my arm. "Give me some time. I'll settle things with Hailey properly, and once it's all han

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