All Chapters of Alpha's Regret: His Deceased Wife Was the Lost Love He'd Sought: Chapter 41 - Chapter 48

(Sera's POV)I stopped and turned to look at him.The light in the car was dim. Julian sat in the driver's seat. He had a handsome face, deep features, a high, straight nose.Right now those amber eyes were fixed on me, intently, a plain feeling in them."Once you're settled at the Silvermoon Pack, once your life is truly stable in the future..."Julian paused, looking at me seriously, and asked the question."Will you give me a chance to pursue you?"A long silence filled the car.I turned my head and looked at Julian's profile, and images ran through my mind against my will.I thought of five months ago, the night he'd stayed up till dawn, eyes bloodshot, pulling me and the baby back from the edge of death with only crude medical supplies.Of the family portrait Nina had drawn with her childish crayons, the four of us.Of how he knew the foods I was allergic to even better than Cassian did.And... of the strong tremor Vivia, the wolf inside me, had given five months ago when she caug

(Third-person POV)In the hidden reeds along the lakeshore.Julian waited beside the refrigerated truck and lifted his wrist, checking his watch for the third time, agitated.By the planned timing, Sera should have come through the underwater passage and met him a full ten minutes ago.But on the black surface of the water there was nothing but the ripples of the wind.Julian's heart sank to a freezing bottom.He put in an earpiece and connected to the miniature listening device he'd planted on the deck in advance.What came through the earpiece was nothing like the "someone's fallen overboard" chaos of the plan!He even caught several fatal keywords clearly. "Anaphylactic shock!" "Hemorrhage!" "Hailey!"Julian's mind spun.And from the noise of the shouting and cursing, he could tell everyone was firmly accusing Sera of doing it!But where was Sera?!"Damn it!"Julian didn't hesitate even half a second. He tore off the earpiece, didn't even take off his coat, and plunged like an arrow

(Cassian's POV)Name of deceased: Sera.Cause of death: Drowning.Time of death: Three days ago.I stared at that thin slip of paper, my fingers shaking violently, out of control.Derek stood before me, head bowed low. "Alpha... that night, this is what I was trying to tell you."Derek swallowed and went on. "After the incident on the ship, a server at the edge of the deck reported hearing the sound of someone going into the water. The security team launched a search at once. At two in the morning, the recovery team pulled a woman's body from the deep zone below the observation deck. After a rushed DNA comparison, we confirmed the deceased was the Luna... was Miss Sera.""I wanted to report it to you right away," Derek said, his head sinking lower. "But you said you didn't want to hear anything about Miss Sera."I stood frozen, my mind blank.Derek paused, his tone turning helpless. "Then Miss Hailey delivered the baby, and the whole pack was up all night celebrating. I couldn't find a

(Cassian's POV)Sera, growing up in Blackthorn. Her mother locked in a quarantine room for over twenty years, never once allowed near.Mocked from childhood by the kids her age: "Your mom has a contagious disease, don't go near her."Abused by her stepmother.Treated by her own father as a redundant burden, even publicly told "Hailey is my only princess."And then her father, this murderer, stood in a hospital corridor, patted my shoulder, sighed, and told me "Sera isn't good enough for you," and, with the face of a loving father, begged me to take good care of his "precious girl" Hailey.I took care of her.I did far more than take care of her!I gave Hailey the master bedroom's bed and drove Sera to the guest room.I pulled the wedding ring off Sera's finger and pressed it into Hailey's palm like a toy to placate a child.And the day Raven was buried?That day, Sera, her eyes red, begged me to come to her mother's funeral with her.I refused. I said I was busy.But I didn't handle an