Semua Bab Pregnant, I Forfeited My Alpha For His Ex: Bab 31 - Bab 34

Wella’s POV"You don't have months because you're not giving yourself the chance to heal!"The therapist's voice rose, sharp with frustration. "This is insane, Theo. You're walking on a leg that should be immobilized. You're coming in for extra sessions that are actively making you worse. And you're still trying to work? What do you think you're proving?"There was a long pause. I could see Theo's shoulders rise and fall with a breath, see the way his grip on the parallel bars tightened until his knuckles were bone-white."I'm proving nothing," he said finally, and his voice was quiet, almost lost beneath the hum of the lights. "I'm trying to get back to where I need to be. My duty is to protect the Luna, and yesterday—"He stopped. I could see his jaw working, see the muscles in his neck straining."Yesterday I stood at the bottom of those stairs and watched her fall, and I couldn't move. My leg gave out underneath me.""Of course you couldn't!" The therapist threw his hands up, clip

Wella’s POVThe car smelled like Anna's vanilla air freshener and the stale coffee she'd spilled on the passenger seat three days ago, a combination that had become almost comforting over the hours I'd spent waiting. My bandaged wrist rested in my lap, throbbing in time with my heartbeat, and I had counted every crack in the windshield, every smear on the glass, every passing shadow that moved across the hospital parking lot.Anna had gone inside twenty minutes ago. Twenty minutes. It felt like twenty hours.She was supposed to deliver the news and come right back—just a quick word, a formal notice, nothing more. I had rehearsed it with her in the car, the careful phrasing, the professional distance, the way to make it sound like a routine administrative decision rather than the slow, painful severing of the only real friendship I had left. But twenty minutes was too long. Twenty minutes meant something had gone wrong.I didn’t dare look in Theo’s eyes to tell him that he is fired, so