Semua Bab Tempting My Best Friend's Alpha Father: Bab 121 - Bab 130

~HOLLY~“What’s going on?” Ella asks slowly.Neither of us answers.I can’t.My throat feels like it’s closed up completely.Ella takes a few steps closer, her expression shifting from confusion to concern.“Why do you both look like this?” she asks, her voice softer now. “What happened?”Still… silence.My guilt grows, crawling up my chest, tightening around my lungs.Because she has no idea.No idea that everything she knows…everything she trusts…is already shattered.“Holly?” Ella looks at me directly now. “You were literally so happy this morning. What changed?”Her words hit me like a slap.I was happy, carefree, laughing, and now….I feel like the worst person alive.I drop my gaze immediately, unable to look at her.If I do, I might completely fall apart.“Did something happen?” she presses. “Did someone say something? Or….”She pauses.Her eyes flicker around the room.“Where’s Gabriel?” she asks.The question sinks deep, sharp, and painful.And my chest tightens again.I swallo

~DAMIEN~The silence after the door closes is suffocating.It presses into my chest, wraps around my throat, and makes it hard to breathe.Gabriel is gone.My son just walked out of this house… and I let him.I stand there for a long moment, staring at the door like if I look hard enough, he might come back through it.But he doesn’t.He won’t.“Dad…?”Ella’s voice pulls me back, soft and uncertain.I turn slowly.She’s still standing there in the hallway, her eyes moving between me and Holly, confusion written all over her face.Her hair is messy from sleep, her expression fragile… innocent.And for a second, I hate myself even more.Because she has no idea.No idea that in the span of a few minutes, everything she knows about this family has been shattered.“Why did Gabriel leave?” she asks again, quieter this time.Her voice trembles just slightly, and I swallow hard.My throat feels dry, tight, like the words are refusing to come out.But I owe her the trut

Nicholas doesn’t rush.He walks toward Gabriel like he has all the time in the world…like this moment has already been decided long before it ever happened.Each step is calm, measured, controlled, and predatory.Gabriel’s shoulders stiffen instinctively.Ragnar rises immediately beneath his skin, alert and sharp.The man approaching them looks dangerous.It isn’t loud, but it’s there…..clear, and unmistakable.The closer the man gets, the heavier the air becomes, thick with something powerful…something dominant, and something Alpha.Gabriel’s jaw tightens.When the man finally stops a few feet away from him, there’s a silence…tense and charged.They stare at each other, one assessing, the other guarded.“Who are you?” Gabriel asks, his voice low, rough from earlier emotions, but steady enough. “And how do you know my name?”Nicholas tilts his head slightly, then he chuckles soft and amused.Like Gabriel has just asked something…adorably unnecessary.“I know a lot about you, Gabriel B

~HOLLY~My room feels suffocating, too quiet and too still.I sit on my bed, curled into myself, my knees drawn tightly to my chest.The dim light barely fills the room, leaving shadows stretching across the walls like something alive.My phone rests in my hands, and my eyes haven't left it in minutes.Maybe longer.I have tried calling him so many times.Too many to count.Each call goes unanswered, and each message ignored.And it hurts more than I expected.More than I can handle.“I just want you to answer…” I whisper, my voice small, fragile.I press call again, and Gabriel's line rings and rings but he doesn't answer.My chest tightens painfully.I lower the phone slowly, blinking back tears.“I didn’t mean to hurt you…” I murmur.But the silence doesn’t respond.It never does.A memory flashes suddenly…..Gabriel laughing, his head thrown back, his eyes warm and soft as he looked at me like I was the only thing that mattered.“Stop overthinking everything, Holly,” he had teased o

The moment Gabriel understands, something inside him breaks in a way that can never be repaired.It's not cracked, not shaken, not shattered.The lobby noise fades into nothing, like the world itself steps back to give space for what is about to happen.His chest rises and falls too fast, too sharp, like breathing itself has turned into a weapon against him.Ragnar is no longer pacing. He is clawing.“He took her.”Gabriel’s gaze locks onto Nicholas, and there is no hesitation this time, no confusion, no doubt.Only rage……. pure, violent, blinding rage.And then he moves fast.Faster than any human in that lobby can track, his body cuts through space with a single purpose, a single target.Nicholas.Nicholas doesn’t move.He doesn't flinch, he doesn't even blink.He simply watches Gabriel come, like he has been expecting it all along.Like this…is part of the plan too.Gabriel’s fist collides with Nicholas’ face with a sickening crack, and the impact echoes.A few people nearby gasp,