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 painful

to see

time would ease the ache, but instead,

reverie was interrupted by a knock at

his hands over

voice steady, the cold, distant Alpha

warrior, entered the room,

him, two guards dragged in

he stood, his gaze shifting

this?" Leo demanded,

his throat before speaking, his voice heavy with the weight of the news he was about to

the truth about the battle three years ago-the one that led to your

he nodded for Panther to

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Tribe This man," Panther gestured to the prisoner, was bribed to forge the evidence against them. It was Nicholas and the Oceanheart Tribe who orchestrated the

stood frozen, his mind racing

hitched, and his

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

targeted her, resented her, all because of a

have I done?" Leo whispered, his voice

glazed over as the enormity

pushed Elizabeth away, hurt her, punished her

she had been innocent

now, she was

intensity of his emotions. Finally, he turned toward Panther, his

ordered, nodding toward