Alle Kapitel von ALPHA'S REGRET: Chasing My ExMate Back.: Kapitel 31 – Kapitel 38

MICHAELI stopped outside Amelia's office for a moment before knocking lightly on the door. I had spent most of the afternoon thinking about Brea.I knocked again.“Excuse me,” I said as I pushed the door open slightly.Amelia looked up from her desk, and for the briefest moment, her expression changed. Her eyebrows drew together and her face tightened with something that looked almost like suspicion, but whatever it was disappeared so quickly that I wondered if I had imagined it.She straightened in her chair and stood.“Good afternoon, sir. How may I help you?”I stepped inside and closed the door behind me.“I wanted to ask you about the doctor we met when I first brought my son here. Have you seen her recently?”Her expression became cautious.“Is there a problem?”“No, there isn't,” I replied, perhaps a little too quickly. “It's just that I haven't seen her since that da

BREAI left the hotel before Alexander did.The few hours we had spent together the previous day had left me thinking about something I had spent years refusing to consider. Maybe it was time to give someone else a chance. Maybe it was time to stop allowing what Michael had done to determine whether I could ever open my heart again.I kept remembering Amelia's advice. I didn't have to face Michael until I was ready, but I also couldn't spend the rest of my life running from the past. I was no longer the woman Michael had rejected. I had survived what he had done, built a life without him, raised a child, finished medical school and become a woman I was proud of.Perhaps I could finally allow something good into that life.Perhaps I could give Alexander a chance.Before we left the hotel, I knelt in front of Blake and rested my hands gently on his shoulders.“Listen carefully to what Mummy is about to say, okay?”

THIRD PERSON POVRhonda had barely watched Brea walk away with Alexander before she turned to Michael, her expression changing from the warm, affectionate smile she had worn during the brief reunion to something far less pleasant. She had noticed the way Brea had looked at the doctor, the way his entire face had brightened when he saw her, and the ease with which the two of them had slipped into conversation as though the rest of the hospital corridor had ceased to exist. Whatever history they shared, it was clear enough to make Rhonda uneasy, and the fact that Michael had stood there watching them without saying a word only made her more suspicious.“Tell me something, Michael,” she began, folding her arms across her chest. “When you told me that we were coming here because someone had referred us to this hospital, was that the whole truth, or was there something you conveniently forgot to mention?”Michael frowned, caught off guard by the sudden change in her tone. “What are you tal

BREA“What's going to happen now?” I asked, looking from Alexander's face to the folder lying open on his desk.My eyes returned to the laboratory report, but I couldn't bring myself to read it again. The results were clear enough to understand, yet my mind kept searching for another explanation. Julian's blood type was inconsistent with the records for both Michael and Rhonda. What did that mean? Was it possible that Julian wasn't Michael's biological son? Had Rhonda lied to him all these years?I shook my head, refusing to let the thought settle.No. That wasn't enough to decide anything. Blood groups could raise questions, but they couldn't establish paternity on their own. There could be an error somewhere, or an explanation none of us had considered. It would be wrong to draw conclusions about Julian's parentage from the report alone.Alexander closed the folder. “I'll tell them what the laboratory has found, and I'll explain that the results need further investigation. But first