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..."

gone for more than half a year, and every day without her was more

than to see her again,

but instead, it only seemed to grow stronger

was interrupted by a knock at

brushing his hands over his face, regaining

commanded, his voice steady, the

most trusted warrior, entered the room,

two guards dragged in a

as he stood, his gaze shifting between Panther and

Leo demanded,

voice heavy with the weight of

three years ago-the one that led to your injury and the loss of

expression hardened, but he

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because of treachery from the Oceanheart Tribe This man," Panther gestured

stood frozen, his mind racing as he processed the

breath hitched, and his heart

that guilt, believing that Elizabeth's adoptive family had been responsible for his injury, believing that their cowardice had cost him

her, all

I done?" Leo

glazed over as the enormity of his actions washed

punished her for something she

had been

she

trembled with the intensity of his emotions. Finally, he turned toward Panther, his voice cold, devoid of the

he ordered, nodding toward the