Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Last Goodbye Never Came: Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 9

My soul peeled away from my frozen body, floating weightless in the air.I looked down and saw myself—curled up behind the rocks, already dusted with a thin layer of snow.A violent tug yanked at me, dragging my spirit through the wind, through the forest, until I came to a stop right in the middle of that brightly lit celebration hall.I saw Leo, surrounded by a crowd, his smile radiant. I was pulled toward him, drifting at his side. So close—and yet he had no idea I was even there.The celebration dragged on past midnight. Finally, Leo—slightly drunk—left with the crowd and headed back to his and Linda's house.Right. He hadn't come back to our place in almost half a year. All to take care of Linda.Linda clung to him like she had no bones. "Leo, you were amazing tonight. You're the most powerful Alpha in the whole pack now!"He chuckled and flicked her nose. "That's because you awakened your special gift. It pushed me to reach my full potential."Linda grinned smugly. "I knew it. I'

The bond reckoning—one of the oldest laws among wolves.When two wolves bound by a promised mating had one party die resentful because of the other's neglect or betrayal, the ancestral spirits would be stirred. Judgment would descend.The trial struck straight at the soul—no one could lie. And it was public. Every pack member had to be present.Leo, along with the entire pack, was brought to the grand square before the ancestral shrine.Linda was there too, down below the platform—pale, weak, leaning on a maid, her eyes flickering with uncertainty.No one could refuse. The reckoning began.Leo sat first. On the massive screen above the square, his contributions appeared. He'd settled border wars for the pack, led expansion campaigns, grown into a powerful Alpha, brought glory to the bloodline. Every achievement turned into gleaming golden numbers, stacking beneath his name.Gasps rippled through the crowd:"No wonder he's our Alpha!""He's given so much for all of us!"Then the light s

The screen kept going.Turns out, the battle tactics Leo used to suppress border conflicts—the governance strategies he'd built his reputation on, the policies that won the pack's hearts—he always thought Linda had been his secret weapon behind it all.But it was me.The light showed stacks of handwritten drafts. Every tactic. Every strategy. All from my hand.I hid it because I didn't want Leo to feel like an Omega had outdone him—didn't want to bruise his pride. And Linda just took credit for everything, every single time.One by one. Five years of silent sacrifice, laid bare in front of every wolf in the pack.Leo's debt snowballed out of control. He went from a revered Alpha to a thief who'd stolen my life.He stared at the screen in disbelief. All those details he'd overlooked, forgotten, taken for granted—now they slapped him across the face, one after another.The pack's gazes shifted. Admiration turned to shock, then to disgust.So their proud Alpha—his mate had sacrificed just

When the experience ended, Leo collapsed on the judgment platform like a pile of sludge. Drenched in sweat, as if he'd just been dragged out of water. His eyes were hollow, his lips moving in unconscious murmurs."My Freya… my child… I was wrong. I was so wrong."Tears poured from his eyes, endless and relentless. The regret was crushing—but it was too late. Everything was too late.Leo's punishment was far from over. After witnessing everything, the pack's trust in him had plummeted to absolute zero. No one wanted an Alpha so blind, so incapable of telling right from wrong.The elders stripped him of his title on the spot. Demoted to a common wolf. Exiled for life to the wastelands beyond the Forbidden Grounds—never to set foot on pack territory again. His soul would carry the weight of Freya's death for eternity, suffering the torment of a devoured heart until it scattered to nothing.Leo—who'd always craved power above all else—said nothing. Maybe it took losing everything for him t