Todos los capítulos de The Alpha’s Rejected Luna: His Regret: Capítulo 31 - Capítulo 40

After returning to Blood Moon, Jake did manage to steady things for a while.He halted several disputed transactions, replenished restricted funds, and submitted a corrective action plan to the board.He was capable.I had never denied that.Otherwise, I wouldn’t have believed that if I stood beside him, we could build a good life together.The problem was that he was too used to letting competence stand in for responsibility.As long as the accounts balanced in the end, he didn’t have to explain why he’d used the money.As long as the public statement was well written, he didn’t have to face the people he’d hurt.As long as the gift was expensive enough, whatever he’d said before could be forgotten.This time, it wasn’t that easy.The findings from the foundation’s independent review began to come out.The disciplinary hearing that had stripped me of my access was also ordered to undergo a new review.The elder who had presided over it sent me a private email.He said the situation ha

Emily didn’t quietly disappear the way Jake wanted her to.She lost her advertisements.She lost her position with the foundation.Several business partners sought compensation under their contracts, and her agency suspended the promotions they’d planned.She went to Jake.He told her to stop causing trouble.Claire later told me Emily had waited outside the trust building for an entire day.Jake hadn’t seen her.Before, all she’d had to do was cry, and he would come.Now she knew what it felt like to wait for someone who refused to answer.But her situation still wasn’t the same as mine had been.She wasn’t being humiliated for something she hadn’t done.She had taken part.She had benefited.Worse, in his rush to repair his reputation, Jake began attributing much of the personal spending to her demands.Every transfer she’d received, every expense reimbursed, became evidence he could use to publicly distance himself from her.He was willing to cover some costs.But there were harsh c

I held the phone without speaking for a long time.Once, he had shielded me from those boys in the snow. His ribs had broken, but he hadn’t let go.Later, he had stood so far above everyone that he thought no one could touch him.Now all of those images belonged to the past.I felt no satisfaction.I didn’t want to visit him, either.My attorney asked if I wanted him to pass along a message.“No.”After hanging up, I stood in the kitchen and listened to the faint metallic sounds of the tray cooling.Lucas knocked twice at the door.“Can I come in?”“Yes.”He smelled the bread and smiled.“Did I come at exactly the right time?”I handed him the knife.“Go ahead.”He washed his hands, then carefully cut the loaf into even slices.I watched for a moment.Suddenly, I remembered Jake’s first time in our kitchen, years ago.My mother had asked him to slice the bread.He had kept his head down, so afraid of getting it wrong.My eyes burned.Lucas noticed. His hands slowed.“Did I do something

Before summer, Lucas finished his courses.He was offered an internship at a large ranch and came to tell me, hesitant.I was happy for him.“Of course you should go.”“What about this place?”“I’ll hire someone else.”He looked a little disappointed.“You answered too quickly.”I laughed.“Should I have started with, ‘What will I do without you?’”He considered that seriously.“You could say it once.”“All right.”I cleared my throat.“What will the storage shed do without you?”He finally laughed.Before leaving, he organized all my tools and wrote a simple maintenance checklist.He even made a special note about the sheep most likely to squeeze through the fence.“Don’t trust it just because it looks innocent.”I promised I wouldn’t.After he left, the yard was quieter for a little while.I didn’t feel abandoned.Someone could come into my life, do good things, leave warmth behind, and then go on to follow his own path.It could be that simple.A relationship didn’t have to last for

I sat in front of her and slowly told her about the past year.I told her I’d bought a ranch.It wasn’t big, but it got wonderful sunlight.I told her about my neighbor, who was very direct and had informed me on her first visit that my sheep might be smarter than I was.I told her about the young French man I’d hired.He had been a good worker with an equally good appetite. Now he was interning at a much larger ranch.I told her I’d learned to repair a small section of fence.Though Beth hadn’t trusted it and had gone to check it again the next day.I laughed at that.Wind moved through the pines with a soft rustle.I paused.“Mom, I didn’t go back with Jake.”My eyes still burned when I said it.Not because I felt guilty.Because I could finally sit in front of her and tell her what I had truly chosen.“I know you used to love him.”“I did, too.”“But I don’t want to make excuses for him anymore.”I touched her name on the headstone.“And I don’t want to spend the rest of my life hat