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

more than to see her again,

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

reverie was interrupted by a knock

brushing his hands over his face, regaining

voice steady, the cold, distant Alpha mask slipping

his most trusted warrior, entered the room, his

in a man, beaten

his gaze shifting between

Leo demanded, his

his throat before speaking, his voice heavy with

I've uncovered the truth about the battle three years ago-the one that led to your injury and the loss of

hardened, but he nodded for Panther to

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man," Panther gestured to the prisoner, was bribed to forge the evidence against them. It was Nicholas

moment, Leo stood frozen, his

breath hitched, and his heart pounded

adoptive family had been responsible for his injury, believing that their cowardice had cost him not

her, all because of a

Leo

the enormity of

punished her for something she had no part

she had been innocent

she was

of his emotions. Finally, he turned toward Panther, his voice cold, devoid of the warmth

him," he ordered, nodding