After I Amazed the World the Cold Alpha Regretted

Chapter 189

In heat? The words felt foreign to me.

As someone who hadn't fully embraced my werewolf side until recently, I hadn't experienced the full force of a heat cycle before.

Now, the heat that radiated through my body felt like fire, consuming every rational thought / had left.

My body ached with a need I didn't understand, and the intensity of it left me feeling unsteady, weak.

Leo's hands were gentle as they moved along my back, offering comfort, but also stoking the embers of the fire burning inside me.

't fight it," he murmured, his voice a soft plea. "Let me help you. We're mates, Sherry. This is natural"

I trembled in his arms, torn between the desire to push him away and the overwhelming need to be closer to him.

He was right-every instinct screamed that we were meant to be together, that only he could ease the relentless ache spreading through my body.

My fingers dug into his shirt, but I couldn't bring myself to let go.

Leo's lips brushed against my neck, sending a shiver down my spine.

"If you don't let me help you, the heat will come back, and it will only get worse. It's painful, Sherry. Trust me."

My resolve crumbled in that moment, and I let out a breath I didn't realize I was holding.

His touch was intoxicating, and with every kiss, every caress, the haze of my heat cycle took over completely. When I awoke the next morning, the room was empty.

The spot beside me in the bed where Leohad been was cold, and an uneasy feeling settled in my chest.

I reached over to find a small note left on the pillow:

Elizabeth

*You're past the worst of it now. The war is about to begin, and I need to make preparations. I didn't want to wake you, but I've left breakfast for your in the dining room. No matter what happens, I want you to know that I will always love you. Stay safe. - Leo"

The words made my chest tighten, and I wasn't sure if it was from lingering emotion or confusion.

Everything that had happened last night-everything he had said, everything we had shared-it felt monumental, yet I was left feeling.. incomplete.

still

an alert popped up on my phone and it read: my ticket to

gig, but rather Orlando's intention to take me to settle there on a

to say goodbye to the people and

up

Leo about this decision on his birthday yesterday, but too much had happened that

out of bed, feeling the remnants of last night's passion echo

mind was too clouded to sort

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I made my way downstairs, hoping the breakfast he'd mentioned would at least distract me from my complex emotions. But as I

table, were Ceccily and Derrick-eating

The audacity.

from her plate, a self-satisfied smirk playing

Since I'll be the Mistress of Silvermoon soon, I figured I should get used

the table, the cold

up to me, her eyes wide with

them, Miss

the servant off and turned

"Who told you you could touch anything in the house

as her expression wavered

as she desperately tried

a strained grin. "What's wrong with sharing a

firm as I replied, "We are not family. And right now, you're going to

hung in the air like a blade,

concealed until now, surged

news-Leo is heading to war. The rogues are ruthless this time, and there's a very real chance he won't come back alive. What will you do then, huh? When you're left alone with no

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at the absurdity of her offer, the sound bubbling up from my

is not on Lea. I stand on my own. This is my place, and I am asking you-on, I telling you

who had been quiet up until now,

stretched across his face as he chewed obnoxiously, making a show of loudly sharping the

mine, a playful glint in them as if

of him

entitlement-it made my skin crawl. I took a slow, deliberate

my voice dangerously soft,