All Chapters of The Alpha's Regret Came Too Late: Chapter 51 - Chapter 57

Chapter 51Annabelle POV We arrived at Damon’s house. As I got out, the smell of earth filled my nostrils. It was what not exactly what I expected but it came very close. The house had a presence that said it had been lived in for quite a time. There were trees at the end of the compounds and they were occupied by singing birds. There were hardly any decorations. That would have been a real surprise. I stepped into the house and stood to get a fill of the house and more insight into the man besides me.There were splinters on the shelves and tables around the house. My eyes fell on the bookshelf. It was supported pieces of wood in some places. The books on the shelves weren’t for décor. They had been read and judging by the worn edges, repeatedly. A man who read, it was little wonder where the introspection came from.  On the dining table, the circle of fade brown at the mouth of the coffee mugs told me all I needed to know. I

Chapter 53 Damon POVThe gathering had gotten to that time of the night when nobody was quite ready to leave but nobody had anything new to say either. Music drifted from somewhere near the porch. People drifted with it.I was aware of the women across the room the way I was aware of rain starting outside, or a change in the wind or a car some meters behind me. I took note of it and moved on. There was nothing in it that asked for more attention than that.I'd been coming to Sleepy Hollow for years. Sometimes, I stayed but never long enough for anyone to expect it of me. I'd show up, fix whatever needed fixing, settle whatever needed settling, and leave before anyone thought to ask when I'd be back. It was never about being thanked for it. I didn't think anyone here even kept count of all the small things I'd quietly held together over the years.Arrive. Work. Leave. That was the deal and I liked it that way. And in every single one of those visits, I

Chapter 55Antonio POVI was in the office, leaning back in my seat as I rubbed my forehead. I slugged down another cup of coffee. At this rate, I would probably create a record by afternoon if one didn’t already exist.The door opened and Raine walked in. There was a flash of surprise on his face but he quickly hid it. He looked me over and that same sympathetic glimmer flashed across his eyes. “Good morning boss. Must be a long day if you are here already.” I appreciated the fact he didn’t bring it up. He continued, “I guess, you would like the update on yesterday’s mission?” “Let’s get on with it.” He turned up the screen on the wall and there was a flurry of images. It was a scene of carnage, beautiful and deadly. “We were about to drive them back. Barely just.” There was a little silence for the dead. “I have begun planni

Chapter 57ANTONIOMarcus survived.I still haven't fully made peace with that fact. I never resented it but it sat strangely in my chest, like something that should have brought me relief and somehow doesn't. He walked out of that hospital under his own power. I watched him from the steps as his bags were loaded into the car Silverpine sent. He moved carefully like a man who had learned firsthand, that the body is a more fragile thing than he'd ever believed. He hadn't spoken much since he woke up. The Marcus who arrived here ten days ago was quieter than the one I remembered.  Then again, near-death left marks that no physician can treat.I wouldn’t say we were close. We were two men who loved the same woman in entirely different ways. Grief had a way of bonding people together and over the past weeks that connection was enough. Neither of us blamed the other but we blamed ourselve. Neither of us said it aloud, because saying it would have