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..."

a year, and every day without her

more than to see her again, even

but instead, it only seemed to grow stronger with every passing

reverie was interrupted by a knock

sat up, hastily brushing his hands over his face, regaining his

commanded, his voice steady, the cold, distant Alpha mask slipping back into

his most trusted warrior, entered the room, his expression

in

narrowed as he stood, his gaze shifting between

Leo demanded, his tone

throat before speaking, his voice heavy with

about the battle three years ago-the one that

hardened, but he nodded for Panther

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Chapter 216

deserting the battlefield, but because of treachery from the Oceanheart Tribe This man," Panther gestured to the prisoner,

frozen, his

breath hitched, and his heart pounded

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

her, resented her, all because of a

done?" Leo

the enormity of his

had pushed Elizabeth away, hurt her, punished

been innocent all

she was

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

ordered, nodding toward the