All Chapters of Alpha, Let's End This Bond!: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

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The legendary Dinner Disaster

AriaBy the time we reached the hospital entrance, the crisis had calmed a little. Magnus was stable again, which basically meant “still alive but don’t relax.”The doctors shooed us away, saying he needed rest, and honestly, I think Luca needed the breather more than Magnus did.On the walk back to the car, Luca brushed his fingers against mine—not holding my hand, just that light graze that said he needed reassurance but didn’t quite know how to ask.“Aria,” he murmured, “don’t mention anything about the real diagnosis when we see him tomorrow. He doesn’t want anyone panicking.”“Okay,” I said. “I can pretend.”“No—” he paused, looking directly at me, “you’re the one person he doesn’t want worrying. So act like you know nothing. And… bring the kids sometimes. He lights up when they're around.”Something tugged in my chest. A tiny warmth.“Yeah,” I said. “I’ll bring them.”He nodded, exhaling hard like he’d been holding breath for ten years.Then he surprised me.“You eaten?”“I grab

Trying And Failing To Understand Me

AriaI stared at the crab leg Luca had placed in my bowl like it was a live grenade.Everyone else at the table was enjoying their food, but my entire brain was screaming nope.Luca nudged the bowl toward me. “You should eat.”“I can’t,” I said flatly, sliding the crab leg right back into his bowl.His brows pulled together. “You don’t like crab anymore?”“It’s not about liking it.” I kept my voice casual, but there was a sting underneath. “Our daughter’s severely allergic, remember? And I’m breastfeeding. I can’t risk eating shellfish.”The moment the words left my mouth, I regretted them—not because they weren’t true, but because of the way they hit him.His whole expression changed like he’d been slapped with his own failures.“Oh,” he said quietly. “Right.”Silence spread across the table.Ivy suddenly found her water glass fascinating. Rowan stared at her so hard it was basically a telepathic threat.I got busy stirring my soup, like it held the secrets of the universe.Luca didn

The Alpha Brings Flowers.

AriaIf someone had told me a week ago that Luca Stormbourne—my very charming, very problematic, very emotionally constipated Alpha husband—would one day voluntarily show up with flowers…I would have laughed so hard I'd be rolling on the floor.This man didn’t do flowers.He barely did words.But apparently, he now did “desperate husband energy.”And honestly? I wasn’t ready.Earlier that day, I’d swung by the office to drop off some stuff, only to overhear Kenia trying her best not to lose her sanity while giving Luca a crash course in being a decent husband.“Alpha,” she said patiently, “flowers. Women like flowers.”“Aria doesn’t,” Luca shot back.“How do you know? When did you last give her any?”Silence.“Exactly,” Kenia said. “You don’t know, because you’ve never tried. Get flowers. And maybe a gift. And maybe, I don’t know—try human tenderness for once.”“I’m not doing flowers.”“Then do something else sweet.”A longer pause.Then finally, through clenched teeth, “Fine. Order

She Really Vanished?

AriaI crashed into the master bedroom like someone escaping a crime scene.Yeah, it was dramatic, but after everything with the crab leg fiasco the night before, I just wanted silence. Not Luca’s brooding face. Not his thoughtful-but-too-late flowers. Definitely not his sudden oh-I’m-trying-now energy.So, like always, I camped out on the far side of the bed with a pillow barrier between us, like I was setting territorial boundaries. Honestly, it felt appropriate. Wolves usually do that.I slid under the blanket and angled my body away from him. New-moon level dark.Then the bed dipped behind me.Luca’s voice came low, like he was trying not to wake a sleeping volcano.“Aria… about last night. The crab thing. I wasn’t thinking. I didn’t know—”I turned my head just enough for him to see the dead stare I’d perfected since giving birth.“Exactly. You didn’t know. That’s the point.”He inhaled sharply. I could feel the frustration rolling off him, hot and restless like a wolf pacing beh

Stains Don't Lie.

AriaMy wolf kept pacing behind my ribs, restless from all the emotions bleeding through the bond.Then Luca called.I snatched my phone so fast I almost dropped it.“Luca?”His voice came through.“We found her.”I sagged down onto the nursery chair, relief slamming into me.“Thank the moon. Where was she?”“At a bar near the Crescent district.” He exhaled hard, like he’d been sprinting. “She got drunk. Someone there used her phone to contact me.”I pinched the bridge of my nose. “Drunk. Pregnant. Great combo.”“She’s safe,” he said. “She’s with Rowan now.”“Good,” I whispered. “That’s good.”Silence lingered for a moment, weighted down by all the unfinished conversations we’d shoved into corners.Then Luca cleared his throat.“Aria… I’m coming home.”“Okay.”He hesitated. “And Aria?”“Yeah?”“…Thank you.”The quiet sincerity in his voice startled me. No pride-infused grumbling. Just a man exhausted from worry.I didn’t know what to say to that, so I murmured the safest thing.“Just

The Lectures I Didn't Ask For

LucaKenia stared at me like I’d just admitted I didn’t know how many kids I had.“Alpha, you’ve been married for two years,” she said slowly, “and you don’t know whether your wife has allergies?”I dragged a hand down my face. “Kenia—”“No. No, don’t ‘Kenia’ me.” She tapped her pen against her desk like a tiny slap to my ego. “How do you not know something that basic? You’re the Alpha. You memorize patrol schedules, rogue sightings, border shifts—but not your own wife’s health info?”I frowned at the floor because somehow it was easier to stare at than her disappointed face.“It wasn’t… like that,” I muttered.“Then what was it like?” she snapped. “Because right now it sounds like you never paid attention.”Her words hit harder than I expected, probably because they were true.Aria and I lived under the same roof, shared the same family, raised the identical twins, but half the time… it felt like we were on different planets.Not because she didn’t try.Because I didn’t look closely

Taking The Outsider's Side

AriaThe last thing on earth I needed was Helena trailing me all the way home.My life was a dumpster fire. I had two babies, a sick grandfather-in-law, a crumbling marriage, and a divorce plan I was trying to keep hidden.The last thing I had energy for on my to-do list was "enduring mother-in-law crisis."But nope. She stuck to me like glue, following every single moveThe moment I stepped into the house, she was right behind me. She angrily whipped out her phone.“Luca! Your wife—” she began immediately, like she’d been rehearsing the speech in the car.I didn’t stick around to hear the rest. I scooped up Aurora, checked on Adrian, then headed upstairs before Helena gave herself a throat injury screaming about how ungrateful I was.Her voice carried anyway. Paper-thin walls were no match for an angry alpha mother.“She disrespected me! She has no manners! I don’t know why you tolerate—”I shut the bedroom door.Aurora whined, picking up on the tension. I held her until she settled,

He Left And You Replaced Him?!

AriaMorning in this house always feels like walking across thin ice. One wrong step and someone plunges into freezing water. Usually me.But after the storm last night? After Luca actually took my side against his mother?Yeah… today felt different.I found him in the kitchen, sleeves rolled up, half-buttoned shirt like he was in a rush, sipping coffee while scrolling something on his phone.That was classic Luca: smooth on the outside, a storm raging within.I cleared my throat.“Hey,” I said awkwardly. “About last night… thanks. For stepping in.”He didn’t even look up.“Don’t thank me.”I frowned. “Okay, well—”“Aria,” he snapped quietly, “I don’t need appreciation. I need you to stop provoking my mother.”I blinked. “Provoking? She followed me home.”“She wouldn’t have followed you if you hadn’t spoken to her the way you did.”My jaw dropped. “Wow. Impressive. And here I thought I hallucinated her yelling at me in public.”He set his mug down a little too hard.“You could’ve hand

Two Little Wolves, His Biggest Wins.

AriaI pulled a chair closer, my fingers curling around the cold metal rail of the bed.My mind drifted anyway, back to all the places I didn’t choose but still dragged behind me like old luggage.Old promises people broke and left on my doorstep.And now this… sitting beside the only Stormbourne who ever made me feel like I wasn’t intruding in their world.“Wake up already,” I murmured, brushing my thumb along the blanket near his hand. “I need someone sane to talk to.”I swallowed hard and straightened up, pretending my heartbeat wasn’t echoing in my ears.Fine. If he needed time, I’d give him time.Then there was an agonizing silence.But the silence wasn't peaceful, and it yanked me straight back into memories I thought I’d buried deeply.I was growing up without a father. Losing him too early, before I ever got the chance to know who he was outside the faded photographs people kept handing me. A mother who walked away after that, leaving me with nothing but her scent on an old sc

Kindness Or Just Keeping tabs?

AriaBy the time Luca hung up, my chest felt tight in that stupid way I hated—like someone had wrapped invisible fingers around my ribs and squeezed.Alder staying behind…Sure. It sounded sweet and concerned, but I knew the truth: it was likely just monitoring.I wasn’t naive. Luca didn’t do things out of pure kindness.And the fact I even had to guess his motives? That said enough.I stood outside Old Magnus’s ward for a minute, fingers curled into fists, trying to swallow the complicated mess sitting in my chest.It wasn't anger or sadness. It was the vague, aching in-between, where you feel pain but can't pinpoint the source.Wolves were supposed to have instincts that cut through lies, but mine?Mine just sighed and said, Yeah, girl, he doesn’t trust you. Figure that out.I left the hospital when the sun started tilting low, slipping into the evening traffic back home.The farther I drove, the more that phone call replayed in my mind. His calm voice, like he hadn’t just caught hi

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