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..."

half a year, and every day without her was

wanted nothing more than to see

thought that time would ease the ache, but instead, it only

reverie was interrupted by a

brushing his hands

his voice steady, the

most trusted warrior, entered the room, his expression

in a man, beaten and

as he stood, his gaze shifting between Panther and the

this?" Leo demanded,

speaking, his voice heavy with the weight

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

but he

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Chapter 216

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

his mind racing as he processed the

his heart pounded in

three years, he had carried the weight of that guilt, believing that Elizabeth's adoptive family had been

resented her, all because

Leo whispered,

as the enormity of his

pushed Elizabeth away, hurt her, punished her for something

had been

she

filled the room as Leo's body trembled with the intensity of his emotions. Finally, he turned toward Panther, his voice cold, devoid of the warmth

ordered,