After I left Alpha father and son went crazy with regret

Chapter 29

“Nora,” Harrison saul, his face fushed weath excitement, “you can’t tell me you’re not in love with her now. Isn’t she just amazing?

Noca hestated, a small smile playing on her lips

Noua found herselt standing amidst the deafening cheers of the crowil, her emotions a quiet storm compared to the chaos around her.

She looked at Arnold once again, his focus entirely on Lista.

eyes glimmered with admutations, a book she had long yearned for but never truly received.

A sadden thought crossed her mind

What if I reached out? What if past this once, he responded?

Het bears wavered, and despite her better judgment, she decided to try. Mindlinking Arnold, she sent a tentative message. “Arnold?”

Suence

Her shoulders sagged as the realization settled in though deep down, she wasn’t surprised.

swer. She thought, watching him with a bitter smule. Arnold’s gaze never left Linda, as if the world had narrowed to only her. Nora’s chest tightened, but she managed to sinile, calm and composed, even as the faint sting of rejection lingered.

Turning on her heel, she walked away from the awards stage.

She didn’t glance

didn’t want to see Arnold’s oblivious

through the thinning crowd, Harrison’s

is a legend” Not only is she the reigning champion, but did you know

a personality that’s as magnetic as her skills. No wonder she

but let it roll off her like water. Harrison

Her footsteps:

frustration, hurt, and

Linda was simply being herself, shining

with Arnold and the years she had spent hoping for

breeze brushed against her face,

moment, she thought it

nothing – a genetic notification

head, she shippest the phone

into

her thoughts

a

glow

walked toward

her thoughts preoccupiest,

with someone coming trouu the opposite

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“he replied, his expression hardening

a musenlar build and an air of arrogance that matched

of superiority, a reflection of the tight–knit

cold demeanor turned glacial as he studied