After I Amazed the World the Cold Alpha Regretted

Chapter 216

Chapter 216

Suddenly, the fog of sleep lifted, and reality crashed into him.

The woman in his arms wasn't Elizabeth.

She was one of his female subordinates, het wide eyed innocence masking a deeper intent. Leo's heart pounded with anger and shame.

He pushed her away so forcefully that she stumbled backward, nearly falling to the ground.

chest heaved as he glared at her, his voice laced with icy fury. "Who let you in here?"

The woman, shocked and embarrassed, fell to her knees on the plush carpet, her head bowed.

"Alpha, please-why do you torture yourself like this? I'm willing to give myself to you. I don't care if I have no name, I don't care if" "Get out!" Leo barked, his voice dangerously low.

His fists clenched at his sides, struggling to control his rage.

"You think you can compare yourself to "her"? To Elizabeth? Get out now, and never come near me again!"

The woman's face turned crimson with humiliation..

She hastily pulled her coat over her shoulders and scurried from the room, sobbing quietly as the door clicked shut behind her.

When the door closed, the room fell into an oppressive silence.

Leo sank back into the couch, burying his face in his hands.

The anger, the guilt, the unbearable longing for Elizabeth-it all collided inside him, threatening to tear him apart.

He murmured her name softly, almost pleadingly.

""Elizabeth..."

year, and every

to see

time would ease the ache, but instead, it only seemed to grow stronger with every

interrupted by

hands over

he commanded, his voice steady, the cold, distant Alpha mask

trusted warrior, entered the room, his expression

dragged in

his gaze shifting between Panther and

this?" Leo demanded, his

his throat before speaking, his voice heavy with

years ago-the one that led to your

expression hardened, but he nodded for

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adoptive parents deserting the battlefield, but because of treachery from the Oceanheart Tribe This man," Panther

frozen, his mind

his

had carried the weight of that guilt, believing that Elizabeth's adoptive family had been responsible for his injury, believing that their cowardice had cost him not only

had targeted her, resented her,

Leo whispered, his

as the enormity of his actions

hurt her, punished her

she had been innocent

now, she

his emotions. Finally,

him," he ordered, nodding