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The Alpha’S Regret She Never Looked Back
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00:01i discovered my alpha cheating in our own bedroom with his stepmother and i pretended not to know
00:07i found out my alpha was cheating on me and i caught them right inside our shared chamber
00:11thinking i was asleep i did not move i did not speak i kept my eyes closed my breathing steady
00:19and pretended to rest even as my heart shattered i lay still in the furs every muscle coiled tight
00:25forcing calm i was wide awake every sense heightened then i heard it the soft shift of
00:31bodies ragged breath and her voice quiet and hesitant laced with thrill should we really do
00:37this here it's okay she fell asleep my blood turned to ice but i did not flinch i forced my
00:48eyelids shut
00:49imagining them no uh my mate the alpha i built pressing lydia against our bedroom stone wall
00:55his hands in her hair his mouth on hers starved she was his stepmother the late alpha's mate betraying
01:02me right beside my bed they thought i slept thought they were quiet but i heard every kiss every
01:08possessive growl every shameless sigh his hands roamed her like she was his she clung to him like
01:13she belonged in my place i swallowed down bile keeping my breathing even my face impassive
01:19i lay silent chest aching as if clawed open but gave no sign i did not scream did not confront
01:26them i just listened letting cold resolve settle the blood moon was coming and i would leave forever
01:31for now i would pretend pretend ignorance pretend the betrayal did not cut deep i would bide my time
01:39then vanish without a trace
01:44this was the man i gave up everything for but he cheated on me with his stepmother behind my back
01:49i am aria i left my entire world behind to stay in this cursed frozen wolf territory a world of
01:56frost
01:56and tradition where strength was worshipped and softness was a weakness i tilled the barren earth
02:01that had never grown crops before turning rock and snow into soil that could feed the pack i healed
02:07the sick with wild herbs i'd learned to recognize stitching wounds and calming fevers when the pack's
02:13old ways only brought suffering i built stable shelters that blocked the biting winter wind keeping
02:18their children alive through the coldest nights most of all i built noah i turned him from a reckless
02:24hot-headed warrior into a respected alpha teaching him patience wisdom and how to lead with kindness
02:31not just strength i gave him my loyalty my effort my heart and my future i thought love could outrun
02:38tradition i thought he would choose me now i knew better but i would not let him see how much
02:43he had
02:43broken me but the moment his father died everything changed the old alpha's funeral fire had barely turned
02:51to ash when noah brought lydia back to our den under the pack's ancient twisted law the son inherits his
02:57father's mate a tradition he'd once sworn to break for me he did not fight it he did not hesitate
03:03he did
03:03not even apologize he just brought her home and betrayed me where i slept that night in our chamber
03:09was not the first time and it would not be the last and every night i lay there pretending to
03:16sleep
03:16pretending not to hear the sounds of their betrayal through the thin stone walls
03:20lydia was given the chamber beside ours close enough to touch close enough to taunt every night
03:26the whispers the moans the proof that he had forgotten every vow he'd made to me drifted through
03:32the walls i did not scream i did not confront him i only carved tiny marks into the stone wall
03:38and
03:38dried beast blood counting down the days until the blood moon my silent countdown to freedom hidden from
03:44his sight the next morning i went to my seedling beds the fields i'd nurtured with my own
03:50two hands the future i'd built for the pack that owed me everything when i arrived my heart sank
03:56completely every plant was drowned flooded destroyed beyond any hope of saving lydia stood beside the
04:03wreckage holding a wooden bucket tears streaming down her face before i could speak noah appeared he
04:10shoved me backward with brutal unthinking force my knee crashed hard into a sharp stone and white hot pain
04:16exploded through my leg lydia lifted her tearful face whispering softly i only wanted to help
04:25can you not even tolerate her what was the point of explaining he had already chosen chosen the woman who
04:32destroyed my work chosen to believe her lies over my pain he had chosen to break me one cruelty at
04:38a time
04:39i pushed myself up slowly from the mud and dirt my leg throbbing violently blood dripping steadily down
04:46my calf i lifted my head and looked noah directly in the eyes my voice soft but final no hint
04:52of the
04:52rage i felt i'm hurt too noah for a single heartbeat i saw hesitation a flicker of guilt a moment
05:00of regret but
05:01then lydia whimpered and pressed a hand to her stomach her voice trembling i'm bleeding a single
05:07red drop appeared on her thigh noah's face turned white he did not hesitate he lifted her in his arms
05:13and ran leaving me alone in the wreckage of the life i had built in that moment the very last
05:19thread of
05:20hope inside me snapped clean and final i no longer loved him i no longer hated him i simply did
05:27not care and
05:28i let that indifference show my face calm as i tended to my wound alone one more part of the
05:34act one more
05:35step toward freedom we gathered in the healer's small quiet stone chamber later that day the healer's
05:42voice suddenly rang out with bright joy lydia was with child with the deepest lunar mark in generations
05:49a sign of great power for the pack noah's face lit up with a wild overwhelming joy i had never
05:55seen
05:55a joy he had never shown me not even on the day he became alpha then he turned to me
06:01his expression
06:02cold and calm as if he were giving a simple order not a knife to the heart you will care
06:08for her this
06:09is your duty i laughed bitterly the sound echoing in the small chamber this is not my child it's your
06:15choice i refuse the room fell silent noah's eyes turned cold enough to freeze the air and i knew
06:22in that moment that my fate was sealed for the first time i dropped the act not out of anger
06:28but
06:28out of acceptance the pretense was no longer needed my escape was near noah's face hardened instantly into
06:36cold unyielding stone he gave me an ultimatum sharp and final you must serve lydia tend to her every need
06:44or leave the alpha den forever where am i supposed to go this territory this pack this life i had
06:55built it all with my own two hands it was as much my home as his he hesitated for a
07:00long then spoke
07:01the words that felt like a death sentence the old mountain dens the place where wolves go to die
07:08the healer gasped and tried to protest it was a death sentence that no one survived the mountain
07:14dens alone but noah silenced her with a single icy look i agreed without hesitation i was not surrendering
07:24i was waiting waiting for the blood moon i'm gonna leave him with nothing just like he started out
07:33once noah had knelt before me in firelight his large hands trembling as he placed a rough wolf tooth
07:39pendant around my neck it was unpolished uneven but to me it was the most precious thing in the entire
07:46territory he swore i was his only mate his only equal he said he cared nothing for pack laws nothing
07:53for
07:53heirs nothing for the marks that defined other wolves he said i was enough i wore that pendant like a
07:59crown i believed him even when the pack whispered that a human like me could never be a true luna
08:05now it felt like a chain but i kept it around my neck one more part of the act one
08:11more way to
08:12pretend i was still the naive loving mate he once knew but after lydia arrived every gentle memory
08:18turned to poison the pendant around my neck felt like a weight a reminder of every lie he'd told
08:24every promise he'd broken i was no longer begging for his love i was waiting for my escape and the
08:31blood moon would be my ticket out and until then i would keep pretending keep hiding the rage and
08:37heartbreak that threatened to consume me
08:42one night long after he'd been with lydia noah finally came to me his skin reeked of her thick and
08:49cloying mixed with a cold impatient guilt he sat on the edge of my fur bed and reached to touch
08:54my
08:55hair as if he still had the right to comfort me as if nothing had broken between us i flinched
09:01away
09:01as if burned not out of anger but to keep up the pretense of a sleepy don't touch me unknowing
09:07mate
09:07startled by his touch avoiding his eyes so he would not see the pain there his jaw tightened his eyes
09:14hardening this is just duty aria for the pack for an air i would send her away once she gave
09:24birth
09:24that the pup would call you mother that you were still my only luna i said nothing i closed my
09:32eyes
09:32again pretending to drift back to sleep letting him think his lies had lulled me into complacency
09:38i did not look at him i did not believe a single syllable every word was a knife twisting deeper
09:44into a wound he would never let heal duty was just an excuse an excuse to betray me without guilt
09:50and
09:51i let him believe i did not see through it
09:56that night after he left i tore the wolf tooth pendant from my neck with a single sharp movement
10:03i held it in my palm staring at the rough bone that once meant forever that had once been my
10:09most
10:09cherished treasure it was no longer a gift it was a lie i walked slowly to the hearth where the
10:15fire
10:16still glowed low and warm casting faint shadows across the stone walls i opened my fingers and let
10:21the necklace fall into the flames i watched it char black crumble into small pieces and fade silently
10:28into the ash below when it was completely gone i felt no sorrow only a quiet heavy liberating relief
10:35on my wrist i wore a smooth ancient bone ring something i had kept close and hidden since the
10:42very first day i arrived in this strange land the blood moon would rise soon i would be ready and
10:48until
10:48then the act would go on i was moved to the mountain den before sunset it was cold damp and
10:56completely empty
10:57with no fire no soft furs no warmth nothing but rough stone and howling wind that cut straight
11:03through my bones the air smelled of decay and neglect a reminder that this was where the pack
11:08left those they no longer wanted noah came once on the first day bearing a small basket of simple
11:14rations bread and dried meat barely enough to survive i shut the door in his face without a single word
11:21after that he never came back i assumed lydia needed him the unborn child needed him the pack needed him
11:30i was nothing to him now and that was fine it made my way easier my resolve stronger days passed
11:37slowly
11:37painfully the food ran out no one refilled it no one checked on me no one cared
11:44i curled up on the hard stone bed shivering uncontrollably as a dull heavy cramping began
11:51deep in my stomach for years i had used wild herbs to avoid carrying a child i did not want
11:57to be tied
11:57to this world to this pack to noah by blood but fate had other crueler plans
12:05the pain grew sharper more unbearable tearing through my body like shards of ice i realized slowly coldly
12:13what was happening against all odds i was carrying his child and in this cold abandoned den with no
12:20food no care no love no warmth the small fragile life inside me could not survive warm blood spread
12:28slowly beneath me dark and sticky soaking into the thin furs i'd been given i stared up at the dark
12:34stone
12:35ceiling tears falling silently down my cheeks but i did not grieve i felt only quiet profound relief
12:42that baby deserved a father who would choose it a pack that would value it a life that would cherish
12:48it the last living link between noah and me was gone forever my bone ring slipped from my finger and
12:53clattered loudly onto the stone floor outside the sky glowed silver the blood moon had come my chance to
13:00escape was here
13:04the sky blazed silver above the mountain the blood moon hung full and bright casting an otherworldly light over
13:10the entire land turning the snow to liquid silver and the rocks to shadow my bone ring glowed softly on
13:16the stone floor humming with a quiet old power i had long kept to myself this ring was my only
13:22connection
13:23to the life i once had a life far away from wolves and packs and blood moons i was not
13:28born to this world
13:29i was pulled here unexpectedly torn away from everything i knew and loved from a modern life of warmth and
13:35safety and family from a home that never asked me to sacrifice myself for love this ring was my only
13:41way back i left the bloodstained first spread wide on the stone bed making it clear and obvious for
13:47anyone who found me that i had perished here in the cold i took one last long final look at
13:52the
13:52territory that had broken me then stepped calmly into the glowing light of the blood moon the portal
13:57closed softly behind me i was free noah woke suddenly in the dead of night his wolf screaming
14:05inside him with a blind uncontrollable panic that made his whole body shake he did not know why he
14:11only knew something was unspeakably terribly wrong he threw off lydia without a second thought and ran
14:17rushing wildly up the mountain path his feet bleeding on the sharp stones his lungs burning with every breath
14:23the den door hung open creaking weakly in the wind he stumbled inside it was empty then he saw it
14:31the
14:31massive dark wet blood stain on the furs so large it made his breath catch the healer was summoned
14:37immediately she knelt and trembled violently pressing her fingers to the blood then looked up at him with
14:43tears streaming down her face it was the blood of a miscarriage it's hers the mighty feared alpha of the
14:52shadow pine pack collapsed helplessly to his knees he clutched the blood stained furs to his chest and
14:57let out a broken animal-like sob that echoed through the empty den he had lost me he had lost
15:03our child
15:04and he knew with every fiber of his being that it was all his fault no one never recovered from
15:11that day
15:11he drove lydia and their newborn pup far away from the pack refusing to even look at the air he
15:16had once
15:17craved so desperately the pup was a reminder of his betrayal of the child he had lost of the woman
15:23he had destroyed he wanted nothing to do with the pack the land the title the life he had fought
15:29so
15:29hard to gain he only wanted me the pack turned against him completely calling him not worthy of
15:36being our alpha they stripped him of his alpha temple and locked him away in isolation fearing his
15:41grief would destroy them all he stayed in that bloody mountain den for days four weeks staring
15:47blankly at the stone walls whispering my name over and over again like a prayer he was not crazy he
15:54was
15:54repenting repenting for me for the child he never got to hold for every choice that had broken the one
16:00person who had ever loved him truly unconditionally i opened my eyes to the soft white light of a
16:07hospital room the steady beep of machines the warm familiar scent of antiseptic and home that
16:12i had missed so deeply i was back in my own world the world i had been torn away from
16:17three years ago
16:18my parents were beside me their faces lined with years of grief and overwhelming relief their hair
16:24streaked with gray from worry and searching they had searched for me every single day for three long
16:28years selling everything they owned never giving up even when the police had stopped looking even when
16:35everyone else had said i was gone forever i held them tightly and wept for the years i had lost
16:40for
16:41the pain i had put them through for the fool i had been to abandon the people who loved me
16:46unconditionally
16:47for a man who had only loved me when it was convenient i promised them i would never leave again
16:52i promised
16:53myself i would never let anyone break me like that again i lived quietly for a full year healing slowly
17:00but steadily rebuilding my life one small step at a time i stayed close to my family got a job
17:06decorated a small apartment that felt like home and learned to feel safe and calm again i put the wolf
17:12territory the blood moons the pain and noah firmly behind me i thought i was free that i would never
17:19see
17:20him again never be haunted by the past then i saw him he stood in the middle of the busy
17:25modern street
17:26surrounded by cars and neon lights and crowds of people his long hair wild and unkempt his clothes
17:32strange and out of place his eyes fixed on me like i was a ghost he could not believe was
17:37real he had
17:37used my bone ring the ring i had left behind in the mountain den he had crossed worlds he had
17:43found me
17:44my chest tightened with a mix of fear and anger the old wounds aching as if they had never truly
17:49closed
17:50i thought i had escaped him but he had followed me home my blood turned to ice in my veins
17:57i grabbed
17:58his arm roughly and pulled him into a dark quiet alley away from the crowds my heart racing with fear
18:04and anger and cold disgust how did you find me leave now go back to your world and never bother
18:11me again
18:12his eyes filled with hot helpless tears a sight i had never seen from the proud alpha get out of
18:18here he begged me desperately his voice cracking please don't send me away i know i don't deserve
18:26forgiveness i just want to make it up to you let me stay let me protect you and love you
18:34the way i
18:35should then the proud powerful alpha dropped to his knees before me in the dirt and shadow of the alley
18:40humbling himself completely hit me hate me hurt me just don't leave me again i felt nothing but cold
18:50empty revulsion his apologies meant nothing his regret meant nothing he had broken me and i would never
18:58let him fix me just then i saw my cousin walking toward the alley coming to check on me after
19:04i
19:04disappeared disappeared into the crowd a sharp quiet idea flashed into my mind a way to make him leave
19:10darling i had taught him long ago that darling was for the person you loved more than anything in the
19:16world i hid behind my cousin pretending to be afraid noah's face shattered completely he knew what that word
19:23meant who are you let's go home back to our home to our son he realized i had moved on
19:34that i had built
19:35a new life a new love a new family without him he stood frozen as if the breath had been
19:42stolen from
19:43his lungs and i could see every bit of hope he had carried die in his eyes i was truly
19:48completely gone
19:49and nothing he could do would ever bring me back noah did not leave he refused to go back to
19:56his world
19:56even after i had shattered his hope he found a job near my apartment working long tiring days just to
20:03be close just to catch a single glimpse of me as i passed by he watched me from a distance
20:08silent and
20:09broken never daring to approach he learned to adapt to my world fumbling with strange tools and heavy work
20:16struggling to understand cars and phones and the busy pace of modern life all to stay within reach
20:22of the woman he had destroyed one day he stepped shakily in front of me and pulled out a small
20:28simple ring a human symbol of aria and love he had so sorry my world i want to give you
20:34forever
20:37i'll spend the rest of my life making up for every mistake i made i took the ring from his
20:43hand calmly i
20:44held it up for a long moment then threw it hard into the grass i told him his regret was
20:49pathetic your
20:50regret is pathetic your apology worthless and your presence disgusting if you ever come near me again
20:57i'll disappear forever and you'll never find me i turned and walked away never looking back
21:05a few days later a small plain package arrived quietly at my door there was no return address
21:12but i knew who it was from inside was my bone ring the key to the wolf world the key
21:18that had brought me
21:19safely home the key he had used to cross worlds and find me and there was a letter written in
21:24shaky
21:25childish but painfully careful handwriting it was from noah he wrote that he would never bother me again
21:32that he was returning the ring in case i ever wanted to go back though he knew deep in his
21:36heart
21:37i never would he wished me happiness peace a life free from pain and regret i will spend the rest
21:43of
21:44my days making up for what i've done even if you never forgive me i don't ask for your pity
21:51i don't ask for a second chance all i ask is that you be happy when i finished reading i
21:58folded the
21:59letter and set it aside he was gone truly finally gone and this time i did not feel a thing
22:06i put the
22:08bone ring away in a quiet hidden drawer closing the final chapter on wolves blood moons broken promises
22:15and the love that had destroyed me completely i did not feel anger i did not feel sadness i felt
22:21light
22:22as if a weight i had carried for years had finally been lifted i went back to my family to
22:27my quiet warm
22:28safe life to the world that had always been mine that had always loved me i learned the hardest and
22:35most important lesson of all real love should never ask you to lose yourself it should never make you
22:40small or silent or broken it should never require you to give up your home your heart or your worth
22:47i had once believed that love meant sacrifice but i now knew that true love means respect respect for who
22:54you are respect for your choices respect for your heart i chose to save myself i chose to go home
23:01i
23:01chose to live for the people who loved me and that was the bravest kindest most necessary choice i ever
23:08made i walked forward into my life open and unafraid leaving the wolf the pack and the pain
23:15far behind me i would never again give up my world for someone who would not fight for me
23:20i just want to get me i want to ask you to go home i got my life and bring
23:21up my life and i was
23:21like i did not want to have to be here because i was so sorry i was like i was
23:21like i'm so sorry i
23:21i didn't want to get the word i couldn't believe in my life and i was like i'm so sorry
23:22i was like i'm so sorry i was like i was going to come to me i have no
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