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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 a stepmother and i pretended not to know i
00:07found out my alpha was cheating on me and i caught them right inside our shared chamber thinking i
00:12was asleep i did not move i did not speak i kept my eyes closed my breathing steady and pretended
00:20to rest even as my heart shattered i lay still in the furs every muscle coiled tight forcing calm
00:26i was wide awake every sense heightened then i heard it the soft shift of bodies ragged breath
00:33and her voice quiet and hesitant laced with thrill should we really do this here
00:42it's okay she fell asleep my blood turned to ice but i did not flinch i forced my eyelids 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
01:01betraying me right beside my bed they thought i slept thought they were quiet but i heard every
01:07kiss every possessive growl every shameless sigh his hands roamed her like she was his she clung to him
01:13like she belonged in my place i swallowed down bile keeping my breathing even my face impassive i lay
01:20silent chest aching as if clawed open but gave no sign i did not scream did not confront them i
01:27just
01:27listened letting cold resolve settle the blood moon was coming and i would leave forever for now i would
01:33pretend pretend ignorance pretend the betrayal did not cut deep i would bide my time then 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
01:50i am aria i left my entire world behind to stay in this cursed frozen wolf territory a world of
01:56frost
01:57and tradition where strength was worshipped and softness was a weakness i tilled the barren earth
02:02that had never grown crops before turning rock and snow into soil that could feed the pack i healed the
02:07sick 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
02:18keeping their children alive through the coldest nights most of all i built noah i turned him from a
02:24reckless hot-headed warrior into a respected alpha teaching him patience wisdom and how to lead with
02:30kindness not just strength i gave him my loyalty my effort my heart and my future i thought
02:37love could outrun tradition i thought he would choose me now i knew better but i would not let him
02:43see
02:43how much he had broken me but the moment his father died everything changed the old alpha's funeral fire
02:50had barely turned to ash when noah brought lydia back to our den under the pack's ancient twisted law
02:56the son inherits his father's mate a tradition he'd once sworn to break for me he did not fight it
03:02he did not hesitate he did not even apologize he just brought her home and betrayed me where i slept
03:08that night in our chamber was not the first time and it would not be the last and every night
03:14i lay
03:15there pretending to sleep pretending 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 the
03:27whispers the moans the proof that he had forgotten every vow he'd made to me drifted through the walls
03:32i did not scream i did not confront him i only carved tiny marks into the stone wall and dried
03:38beast blood
03:39counting down the days until the blood moon my silent countdown to freedom hidden from his sight
03:45the next morning i went to my seedling beds the fields i'd nurtured with my own two hands
03:51the future i'd built for the pack that owed me everything when i arrived my heart sank completely
03:56every plant was drowned flooded destroyed beyond any hope of saving lydia stood beside the wreckage
04:03holding a wooden bucket tears streaming down her face before i could speak noah appeared he shoved me
04:11backward with brutal unthinking force my knee crashed hard into a sharp stone and white hot pain exploded
04:17through my leg lydia lifted her tearful face whispering softly i only wanted to help
04:26can you not even tolerate her what was the point of explaining he had already chosen chosen the woman
04:32who destroyed my work chosen to believe her lies over my pain he had chosen to break me one cruelty
04:38at a
04:39time i pushed myself up slowly from the mud and dirt my leg throbbing violently blood dripping steadily
04:46down my calf i lifted my head and looked noah directly in the eyes my voice soft but final no
04:52hint
04:52of the rage i felt i'm hurt too noah for a single heartbeat i saw hesitation a flicker of guilt
04:59a moment
05:00of regret but then lydia whimpered and pressed a hand to her stomach her voice trembling i'm bleeding
05:06a single red drop appeared on her thigh noah's face turned white he did not hesitate he lifted her in
05:13his arms and ran leaving me alone in the wreckage of the life i had built in that moment the
05:19very
05:19last thread of hope inside me snapped clean and final i no longer loved him i no longer hated him
05:26i simply did not care and i let that indifference show my face calm as i tended to my wound
05:32alone
05:33one more part of the act one more step toward freedom we gathered in the healer's small quiet stone
05:40chamber later that day the healer's voice suddenly rang out with bright joy lydia was with child with
05:46the deepest lunar mark in generations a sign of great power for the pack noah's face lit up with a
05:53wild overwhelming joy i had never seen a joy he had never shown me not even on the day he
05:59became alpha
06:00then he turned to me his expression cold and calm as if he were giving a simple order not a
06:06knife to the
06:06heart you will care for her this is your duty i laughed bitterly the sound echoing in the small
06:12chamber this is not my child it's your choice i refuse the room fell silent noah's eyes turned cold
06:20enough to freeze the air and i knew in that moment that my fate was sealed for the first time
06:26i dropped
06:26the act not out of anger but out of acceptance the pretense was no longer needed my escape was near
06:34noah's face hardened instantly into cold unyielding stone he gave me an ultimatum sharp and final you
06:42must serve lydia tend to her every need or leave the alpha den forever
06:49where am i supposed to go this territory this pack this life i had built it all with my own
06:56two hands
06:56it was as much my home as his he hesitated for a long then spoke the words that felt like
07:02a death
07:03sentence the old mountain dens the place where wolves go to die the healer gasped and tried to protest
07:11it was a death sentence that no one survived the mountain dens alone but noah silenced her with a
07:18single icy look i agreed without hesitation i was not surrendering i was waiting waiting for the
07:26blood 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
07:59like a crown i believed him even when the pack whispered that a human like me could never be a
08:05true luna now it felt like a chain but i kept it around my neck one more part of the
08:11act one more
08:12way to pretend i was still the naive loving mate he once knew but after lydia arrived every gentle memory
08:19turned 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 one night long after he'd been with lydia noah finally came
08:47to me his skin reeked of her thick and cloying mixed with a cold impatient guilt he sat on the
08:53edge of my
08:53fur bed and reached to touch my hair as if he still had the right to comfort me as if
08:58nothing had broken
08:59between us i flinched away as if burned not out of anger but to keep up the pretense of a
09:05sleepy don't
09:06touch me unknowing mate startled by his touch avoiding his eyes so he would not see the pain
09:12there his jaw tightened his eyes hardening this is just duty aria for the pack for an heir
09:22i would send her away once she gave birth that the pup would call you mother
09:26that you were still my only luna i said nothing i closed my eyes again pretending to drift back to
09:34sleep
09:35letting him think his lies had lulled me into complacency i did not look at him i did not
09:40believe a single syllable every word was a knife twisting deeper into a wound he would never let heal
09:46duty was just an excuse an excuse to betray me without guilt and i let him believe i did not
09:52see through it
09:57that night after he left i tore the wolf tooth pendant from my neck with a single
10:02sharp movement i held it in my palm staring at the rough bone that once meant forever that had once
10:09been my most cherished treasure it was no longer a gift it was a lie i walked slowly to the
10:15hearth
10:15where the fire still glowed low and warm casting faint shadows across the stone walls i opened my
10:21fingers and let the necklace fall into the flames i watched it char black crumble into small pieces and
10:27fade silently into the ash below when it was completely gone i felt no sorrow only a quiet
10:33heavy liberating relief on my wrist i wore a smooth ancient bone ring something i had kept close and
10:42hidden since the very first day i arrived in the strange land the blood moon would rise soon i would
10:47be ready and until then the act would go on i was moved to the mountain den before sunset it
10:54was cold
10:55damp and completely empty with no fire no soft furs no warmth nothing but rough stone and howling wind
11:03that cut straight through my bones the air smelled of decay and neglect a reminder that this was where
11:08the pack left those they no longer wanted noah came once on the first day bearing a small basket of
11:14simple rations bread and dried meat barely enough to survive i shut the door in his face without a single
11:20word
11:21after that he never came back i assumed lydia needed him the unborn child needed him the pack needed him
11:30i was
11:30nothing to him now and that was fine it made my way easier my resolve stronger days passed slowly painfully
11:38the
11:38food ran out no one refilled it no one checked on me no one cared i curled up on the
11:46hard stone bed shivering
11:48uncontrollably as a dull heavy cramping began deep in my stomach for years i had used wild herbs to
11:54avoid carrying a child i did not want to be tied to this world to this pack to noah by
12:00blood but fate had
12:01other crueler plans the pain grew sharper more unbearable tearing through my body like shards of ice i realized
12:11slowly coldly what was happening against all odds i was carrying his child and in this cold abandoned
12:19den with no food no care no love no warmth the small fragile life inside me could not survive warm
12:28blood spread slowly beneath me dark and sticky soaking into the thin furs i've been given i stared up at
12:34the
12:34dark stone ceiling tears falling silently down my cheeks but i did not grieve i felt only quiet
12:41profound relief that baby deserved a father who would choose it a pack that would value it a life
12:47that would cherish it the last living link between noah and me was gone forever my bone ring slipped
12:53from my finger and clattered loudly onto the stone floor outside the sky glowed silver the blood moon
12:58had come my chance to escape was here the sky blazed silver above the mountain the blood moon hung full
13:08and
13:08bright casting an otherworldly light over the entire land turning the snow to liquid silver and the rocks
13:14to shadow my bone ring glowed softly on the stone floor humming with a quiet old power i had long
13:20kept
13:20to myself this ring was my only connection to the life i once had a life far away from wolves
13:26and packs and
13:26blood moons i was not born to this world i was pulled here unexpectedly torn away from everything i knew
13:33and
13:33loved from a modern life of warmth and safety and family from a home that never asked me to sacrifice
13:39myself for love this ring was my only way back i left the bloodstained furs spread wide on the stone
13:45bed
13:45making it clear and obvious for anyone who found me that i had perished here in the cold i took
13:50one last
13:51long final look at the territory that had broken me then stepped calmly into the glowing light of the
13:56blood moon the portal closed softly behind me i was free noah woke suddenly in the dead of night
14:04his wolf screaming inside him with a blind uncontrollable panic that made his whole body shake
14:09he did not know why he only knew something was unspeakably terribly wrong he threw off lydia without
14:16a second thought and ran rushing wildly up the mountain path his feet bleeding on the sharp stones
14:22his lungs burning with every breath the den door hung open creaking weakly in the wind he stumbled inside
14:28it was empty then he saw it the massive dark wet blood stain on the furs so large it made
14:35his breath
14:36catch the healer was summoned immediately she knelt and trembled violently pressing her fingers to the blood
14:42then looked up at him with tears streaming down her face it was the blood of a miscarriage it's hers
14:50the mighty feared alpha of the shadow pine pack collapsed helplessly to his knees he clutched the
14:56blood stained furs to his chest and let out a broken animal-like sob that echoed through the empty den
15:01he had lost me he had lost our child and he knew with every fiber of his being that it
15:07was all his fault
15:09no one never recovered from that day he drove lydia and their newborn pup far away from the pack
15:15refusing to even look at the air he had once craved so desperately the pup was a reminder of his
15:20betrayal of the child he had lost of the woman he had destroyed he wanted nothing to do with the
15:26pack
15:26the land the title the life he had fought so hard to gain he only wanted me the pack turned
15:33against him
15:33completely calling him mad you're not worthy of being our alpha they stripped him of his alpha title and
15:39locked him away in isolation fearing his grief would destroy them all he stayed in that bloody mountain
15:45den for days four weeks staring blankly at the stone walls whispering my name over and over again like
15:52a prayer he was not crazy he was repenting repenting for me for the child he never got to hold
15:58for
15:59every choice that had broken the one person who had ever loved him truly unconditionally
16:04i opened my eyes to the soft white light of a hospital room the steady beep of machines the warm
16:10familiar scent of antiseptic and home that i had missed so deeply i was back in my own world the
16:16world i had been torn away from three years ago my parents were beside me their faces lined with years
16:21of grief and overwhelming relief their hair streaked with gray from worry and searching they had searched
16:27for me every single day for three long years selling everything they owned never giving up even when
16:33the police had stopped looking even when everyone else had said i was gone forever i held them tightly
16:38and wept for the years i had lost for the pain i had put them through for the fool i
16:44had been to
16:44abandon the people who loved me unconditionally for a man who had only loved me when it was convenient
16:50i promised them i would never leave again i promised myself i would never let anyone break me like that
16:56again i lived quietly for a full year healing slowly but steadily rebuilding my life one small step at a
17:03time i stayed close to my family got a job decorated a small apartment that felt like home and learned
17:10to
17:10feel safe and calm again i put the wolf territory the blood moons the pain and noah firmly behind me
17:17i
17:17thought i was free that i would never see him again never be haunted by the past then i saw
17:23him he
17:24stood in the middle of the busy modern street surrounded by cars and neon lights and crowds of
17:29people his long hair wild and unkempt his clothes strange and out of place his eyes fixed on me like
17:35i was a ghost he could not believe was real he had used my bone ring the ring i had
17:40left behind in the
17:41mountain den he had crossed worlds he had found me my chest tightened with a mix of fear and anger
17:47the old wounds aching as if they had never truly closed i thought i had escaped him but he had
17:52followed me home my blood turned to ice in my veins i grabbed his arm roughly and pulled him into
17:59a dark
18:00quiet alley away from the crowds my heart racing with fear and anger and cold disgust
18:06how did you find me leave now go back to your world and never bother me again his eyes filled
18:13with hot helpless tears a sight i had never seen from the proud alpha get out of here he begged
18:19me
18:19desperately his voice cracking please don't send me away i know i don't deserve forgiveness
18:27i just want to make it up to you let me stay let me protect you and love you the
18:35way i should
18:35then the proud powerful alpha dropped to his knees before me in the dirt and shadow of the alley humbling
18:41himself completely hit me hate me hurt me just don't leave me again i felt nothing but cold empty
18:51revulsion 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
19:35that i had built a new
19:36life a new love a new family without him he stood frozen as if the breath had been stolen from
19:43his lungs and i could
19:44see every bit of hope he had carried die in his eyes i was truly completely gone and nothing he
19:50could do would ever bring me back
19:53noah did not leave he refused to go back to his world even after i had shattered his hope he
19:59found
19:59a job near my apartment working long tiring days just to be close just to catch a single glimpse of
20:06me as i passed by he watched me from a distance silent and broken never daring to approach he learned
20:12to adapt to my world fumbling with strange tools and heavy work struggling to understand cars and phones
20:19and the busy pace of modern life all to stay within reach of the woman he had destroyed one day
20:25he
20:25stepped shakily in front of me and pulled out a small simple ring a human symbol of aria and love
20:31he had so sorry my world i want to give you forever i'll spend the rest of my life making
20:39up for every
20:40mistake i made i took the ring from his hand calmly i held it up for a long moment then
20:46threw it hard into
20:47the grass i told him his regret was pathetic your regret is pathetic your apology worthless and your
20:53presence disgusting if you ever come near me again i'll disappear forever and you'll never find me
20:59i 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 but i
21:13knew who
21:14it was from inside was my bone ring the key to the wolf world the key that had brought me
21:19safely home
21:20the key he had used to cross worlds and find me and there was a letter written in shaky childish
21:26but
21:26painfully careful handwriting it was from noah he wrote that he would never bother me again that he was
21:33returning the ring in case i ever wanted to go back though he knew deep in his heart i never
21:37would
21:38he wished me happiness peace a life free from pain and regret i will spend the rest of my days
21:44making
21:45up for what i've done even if you never forgive me i don't ask for your pity i don't ask
21:52for a second
21:53chance all i ask is that you be happy when i finished reading i folded the letter and set it
22:00aside he was gone
22:02truly finally gone and this time i did not feel a thing i put the bone ring away in a
22:09quiet hidden
22:10drawer closing the final chapter on wolves blood moons broken promises and a love that had destroyed
22:17me completely i did not feel anger i did not feel sadness i felt light as if a weight i
22:23had carried for
22:24years had finally been lifted i went back to my family to my quiet warm safe life to the world
22:31that had
22:31always been mine that had always loved me i learned the hardest and most important lesson of all real
22:37love should never ask you to lose yourself it should never make you small or silent or broken it should
22:43never require you to give up your home your heart or your worth i had once believed that love meant
22:50sacrifice but i now knew that true love means respect respect for who you are respect for your choices
22:56respect for your heart i chose to save myself i chose to go home i chose to live for the
23:03people
23:03who loved me and that was the bravest kindest most necessary choice i ever made i walked forward into my
23:10life open and unafraid leaving the wolf the pack and the pain far behind me i would never again give
23:18up my
23:18world for someone who would not fight for me