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The Alpha's Regret Chapter 22
Ethan's POVMarcus walked in without knocking.That alone told me something. Marcus always knocked. It was one of his fixed habits, one of the small consistent courtesies he maintained regardless of urgency or hour. The fact that he came through my office door without his knuckles touching it first made me look up from the desk immediately.He was holding a small notebook.Plain cover. Dark green He crossed the room without speaking and set it open on my desk directly in front of me, his finger pointing to a specific entry on the page without touching the writing itself.Then he stepped back and waited.I looked down.The handwriting was small and slightly compressed, the way people write when they are trying to fit more onto a page than the lines allow. Abbreviated in places. A word cut short here, a name reduced to initials there. But the entry Marcus had pointed to was neither abbreviated nor reduced. It was written out in full, deliberately, with the kind of careful precision tha
The Alpha's Regret Chapter 21
Ruby's POV"He's a total scumbag."Emily said it before I had even finished the last sentence. Not loudly but quietly with the particular flatness of someone who had arrived at a conclusion so completely that there was nothing left but certainty.She was sitting with both legs tucked underneath her on the sofa, her tea in her lap, her eyes fixed on nothing in particular. "A complete and total scumbag," she said again. Like she was confirming it to herself."Emily…""No." She held up one finger without looking at me. "Give me a second. I'm trying to process this. I cvat believe it happened on a business meeting."I gave her a second.She picked up her phone from the cushion beside her."What are you doing?" I asked."Looking him up.""Emily, sit down..""I am sitting down," she said, which was technically accurate. Her thumb was already moving across the screen with the focused efficiency of a woman on a specific mission. "Gerald Holt. Commercial property. Oakhaven." She said it qui
The Alpha's Regret Chapter 20
Ruby's POV The night air hit me the moment I stepped outside and I stood on the pavement for just a second and breathed it in. Talking to Gerald had made me lose my brain cells.I took in a sharp breath. Fresh and clean air carrying the faint smell of the food cart that parked on the corner outside Venom's Bar every Thursday evening flooded my nostrils. My shoulders slumped. The street was doing its usual night things. I spotted a couple walking slowly on the opposite pavement, a taxi idling at the junction, music drifting from somewhere further down the block that was too far away to identify but close enough to feel.I started walking, my bag's strap firmly placed on my shoulders. I didnt work toward the bus stop. Actually, I wasn't walking toward anywhere in particular. Just walking, the way I used to do in the early Silverlake years when the pack house got too loud inside my own head and the only thing that helped was putting one foot in front of the other until the noise settle
The Alpha's Regret Chapter 19
Ruby's POV Venom's Bar was not what I expected. Honestly? I didn't even know I expected exactly. But this was warm. A low lit bar with leather booths along the far wall and a long mahogany bar that caught the light in a way that made everything look expensive. Jazz played somewhere underneath the conversation of everyone present. I couldn't locate where the sound came from. It sounded in every direction. I spotted Mrs. Carter immediately at the corner booth. She was already seated with a glass of water in front of her and her reading glasses pushed up onto her head, scanning something on her phone with the focused expression etched on her face. Beside her was a man I hadn't seen before. I straightened my bag on my shoulder and walked over. Mrs. Carter looked up the moment I reached the table. "Ruby. Right on time." She stood briefly, formal without being stiff and gestured to the man beside her. "This is Mr. Gerald Holt. He's been looking for a consultant with your specific s
The Alpha's Regret Chapter 18
Ethan's POVShe didn't hear me come in because the music was low…something slow and melodic that I didn't recognize, filling the room with the kind of sound that had no sharp edges to it. The lights were dimmed down to almost nothing, just the warm amber glow of the two lamps on either side of the bed casting the room in a softness that was a long way different from the cold fluorescent strip lighting of the elder hall I had spent the last three hours sitting in.Vivian was in the center of the room with her back to the door and a glass of red wine held loosely in one hand, moving to the music in the unhurried, unselfconscious way of someone who believed they were completely alone she was her shoulders, rolling gently with the beat, her free hand lifting slightly at her side, her hair loose down her back in dark waves that shifted with every movement.I stood in the doorway and watched her for a moment. She looked beautiful. Watching her dance felt strange because it was something I h
The Alpha's Regret Chapter 17
Ruby's POVThe spreadsheet was giving me a headache.l. I had been working on it since seven in the morning, cross referencing two property valuations that Mrs. Carter had sent over the previous evening with a note attached that said simply: *Client is motivated. Get me numbers by Thursday.* It was currently Tuesday. I had the numbers. I just wanted them to be better before I sent them.I pushed my chair back slightly from the desk and pressed my fingers against my eyes for a moment.The duplex was quiet around me. It was always this way every morning. The morning light was coming through the sitting room window at the angle it only reached between ten and eleven, laying a long warm stripe across the floo. The cat from next door had discovered it last week and now appeared in my garden specifically to chase it. Specifically because of the cat, I had also started leaving the sitting room curtain open an extra inch just to help it find the stripe faster.I dropped my hands from my eyes a
The Alpha's Regret Chapter 2
Ruby’s POVI didn't think. I just pushed the door open, the heavy wood swinging back until it hit the wall with a sharp thud.The sound cut through the room, and both of them froze. Ethan turned his head first, his dark eyes narrowing slightly when they landed on me. He didn't let go of Vivian righ
The Alpha's Regret Chapter 1
Ruby’s POVI looked at the ceiling, staring at a water stain that shaped itself like a broken heart. It was funny, really. Or maybe it was just pathetic. My hands were resting on my stomach, pressing down hard as if I could somehow force the emptiness inside.The doctor had just left. His words we
The Alpha's Regret Chapter 5
Ethan’s POVI rubbed my temples as Vivian’s sobbing echoed through the speaker of my phone. She had been crying for the past twenty minutes, her voice high and breathless as she went over the details of what happened at the hospital again."She literally had the guards throw me out, Ethan," Vivian
The Alpha's Regret Chapter 4
Ruby’s POVA gasp tore out of my throat, and my hands flew to my mouth as the tears started flowing all over again. But this time, they weren't tears of grief. They were tears of shock.Emily let out a loud squeal next to me, her fingers squeezing mine so hard she was practically cutting off my cir
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