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The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0084: Even If She Leaves
BENJAMIN'S POVAldric had the morning's papers squared in front of him before I'd even cleared the doorway, and he didn't look up — not until I'd dropped into the seat across from him."This isn't on the agenda," he said."It is now." I sat without looking at him. "I want a permanent endowment for the pediatric screening program. Structured so no future council can touch it. Not this one. Not the next ten."Aldric set the pen down, slow. "In Dr. Watson's name and not yours or the pack?.""In the program's name." I held his eyes. "Her work — whatever happens between her and me doesn't get a vote in it. I don't want this tied to my title, my marriage, or what kind of mood I'm in on a given day. I want it tied to the children it's already saved."He looked at me a long moment — the look he got when he was deciding whether to push or let a thing stand."This is unusual," he said. "Permanent endowments outlast Alphas. Outlast councils. You're aware of what you're asking — this can't be und
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0083: Something Shifted When He Left
ALICE'S POVNine days left.I'd started counting before I got out of bed — the number just sitting there before coffee, before I'd even brushed my teeth. Nine days until the council's window closed, and I still didn't know what I'd put in the box marked answer.John's kiss sat between us, neither of us naming it since the morning after. He and Benjamin hadn't said a word to each other since the festival — a cold, careful orbit, both of them circling me instead of each other. I was tired of being something two grown men took turns being careful around.The clinic was busy enough that I didn't have much room to think about any of it. I was grateful for that.Lily showed up just after the lunch rush, slipping in through the side door the way she usually did, a folded piece of paper held against her chest like something precious."I made you something," she said, holding it out before I'd even fully turned around.A blue wolf, drawn in careful, uneven crayon, standing beside a smaller fig
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0082: The Wall Paid For It
ALICE'S POVBenjamin had already walked away by the time I made myself stop touching the mark on my neck.The kiss with John hadn't meant much — or it had meant something, but a clean kind of something, with none of the weight I dragged around in Blue Moon. No ghosts. No bond. No thirty days sitting on every word I said. That was the whole point of going. I'd kissed John back because for one evening I'd wanted to be a woman who could choose the easy thing and not have it cost her anything and I’m not sorry for it.Benjamin's voice when he said those words earlier stayed with me longer than I wanted. Not the jealousy underneath — that was there too, close to the surface, barely held. It was the steadiness. He hadn't shouted. He hadn't accused me of anything I could argue with cleanly. He'd just named the real shape of what loving me would cost, and walked off before I could tell him it wasn't fair to ask that of anyone. Some small, worn-out part of me agreed it was exactly fair, beca
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0081:The Mark On Her Neck
BENJAMIN’S POVI went down to the clinic to find her. Morwen told me she'd already left — gone off with John — and she didn't know where the two of them had got to.So I waited at her door instead. I had something to say to her, and somewhere in that long day of scrubbing blood off my own jaw I'd made up my mind I wasn't going to lose my nerve before I got it out.She came back near midnight, right after Alec sent a message to let me know he saw her in town and if I knew about it. I had the smell of him on her before I even looked at her face —I already knew she let another man have his hands all over her, plain as anything to a wolf's nose, and mine had never once spared me a single thing it could tell me.Then I saw the mark on her neck.Small. Faint pink love bite that was barely there. The kind of mark you'd only catch if you knew just where to look, and I knew exactly what had left it.The bond came up under my skin and leaned toward her, not asking one thing about what I wanted.
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0080:Not All The Way Sorry
JOHN'S POVAlice showed up with a whole pot of soup, which was its own kind of indictment."I didn't ask for room service," I said."It's not room service. It's just soup." She set it down without making a thing of it. "I figured you might still be sore.""My pride or my jaw?""Both."The chair creaked when I leaned back. I turned the cup once in my hands before I made myself let go of it."I'm sorry. For the punch. The drink was part of it. Not all of it.""That's not really an apology.""I know." I wasn't going to pretend it was. "I'm sorry it happened in front of everyone. I'm not all the way sorry that it happened."Her face didn't change. She sat down across from me. "The council was going to consider punishing you. For striking him.""I figured.""He didn't want it. He told them not to pursue it." She watched my face while she said it. "He said he was the one who triggered you first."I set the cup down. There was a generous way to take that, and I couldn't get my mouth to shape
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0079: No Punishment For John
ALICE'S POVI found Lisa by the clinic entrance the morning after, like she'd been waiting on me."Quite a show last night," she said. "Two men fighting over you in front of the entire pack." She tilted her head and looked my face over, like she was checking for damage that wasn't hers to look for. "It must feel good. Being wanted like that.""It didn't feel good. A man got punched in the face.""Two men got punched, technically. But who's counting." She smiled, small and warm. "I only mean — there's something almost flattering in it, isn't there. Being fought over. After all those years of being the woman nobody fought for."I let that one go past me. She wanted the flinch and reaction; I didn't have one to give her, not before my second cup of the day."Was there something you needed, Lisa.""I worry about you, that's all." She stepped closer and dropped her voice into something that sounded like kindness. "People are saying you've enjoyed this. The attention. Benjamin chasing you,
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0042. He's Not A Monster
ALICE’S POV"Lily Scott is at the front desk," Morwen said from the doorway the next morning. "She's asking for you specifically. She looks like she's been crying."I stood. "Send her in."The girl who came through my door had her jacket buttoned wrong. That was the first thing — the bottom button
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0040: Alice Deserves The Truth
BENJAMIN'S POVI left Alice's quarters and just kept walking. Past the clinic. Past the training yard, past the pack house, until the buildings were all behind me and the ground tipped down toward the river. The water was grey, the surface broken and ruffled.The sound of it just kept going, steady.
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0039. He Stayed All Night
ALICE'S POVThe chair beside my bed was empty.His jacket was gone from the back of it. But the cushion still held the shape of someone who'd sat there for hours, and the glass on the nightstand was half-drunk. I hadn't put it there. I never kept water by the bed.I looked at the chair. The glass.
The Alpha's Greatest Regret 0036. The Girl Who Knew Too Much
ALICE'S POVLily was standing at the entrance to the pediatric wing when I looked up from Caleb's charts. A piece of paper, held in both hands. Alone.She was always alone when she came to find me. Nine years old, standing in the doorway like she was waiting for permission to exist in the room."Lil
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