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

and it read:

rather Orlando's intention to take me to settle there on a permanent basis, where the music scene

to say goodbye to the people and things of

up my

had planned to tell Leo about this decision on

passion echo through

too clouded

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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 on

Mistress of Silvermoon soon, I figured I should get

approached the

the servants came up to me, her eyes

them, Miss Sherry,

and turned my

"Who told you you could touch anything in the house or

as her expression wavered between outrage and a

as she desperately tried to maintain her

family," she said with a strained grin.

by her sudden shift in demeanor, and my voice was steady but firm

hung in the air like a blade, and

until now, surged

do then, huh? When you're left alone with no one to rely

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

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

been quiet up until now, finally

obnoxiously, making a show of loudly

to mine, a playful glint in them as if daring me

of him made my stomach

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

I said, my voice dangerously soft,