After Severance,Alpha Fell in Love With Ex-Luna

Chapter 103: Fragments of Memory

Chapter 103: Fragments of Memory

(Marcus Blackwood’s POV)

Victoria Blackwood’s silence stretched between us like a chasm. I could see the conflict in her eyes, the way she weighed her words carefully

“Marcus,” she finally said, her voice heavy with reluctance. “Some things are better left forgotten.”

“But I need to know” I pressed, leaning forward in the uncomfortable hospital chair. “Something happened to me, didn’t it? Something significant enough that everyone was forbidden to speak of it.”

Victoria sighed deeply, her shoulders sagging with the weight of years of secrecy. She moved to sit beside me in the sterile corridor, her presence both comforting and unsettling.

“You were eight years old,” she began quietly. “It was a k********g incident that nearly destroyed our family.”

The words hit me like physical blows. Eight years old. The age when most of my early memories became hazy and fragmented.

“Every time you tried to remember what happened, you would suffer terrible headaches, Victoria continued. “The trauma was so severe that it was affecting your health, your ability to function normally.”

I closed my eyes, feeling the familiar pressure building behind my temples. Even now, trying to grasp those memories felt like reaching through thick fog.

“Elder Margaret was desperate to help you,” Victoria explained. “She found a Master Healer who specialized in memory work. The healing ritual was… extensive.”

“They erased my memories,” I said flatly.

“They helped you forget the trauma,” Victoria corrected gently. “And Elder Margaret made it cle was ever to speak of it again. She wanted to protect you from reliving that pain.”

I struggled with the fragmented images surfacing in my mind. Darkness. Fear. And something else – a presence that had felt safe in the midst of terror

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The sound of footsteps interrupted my thoughts. A doctor in surgical scrubs approached us, his expression professional but tired.

“I’m looking for the family member of Sophia Rivers,” he announced.

I stood immediately. “That’s me.”

Before I could explain the complexity of our relationship, Victoria interjected smoothly. “We’re distant

cousins. I’m her mother figure since her parents aren’t available.”

without question. “Miss Rivers is out of danger. She lost a significant amount of

by confusion about why I cared

to me with sharp eyes. “Marcus, you have a mate. Why are

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remained silent, unable to articulate the tangled emotions in my

would understand,” I finally said, though the words

understand her mate being devoted to another

blow. After Victoria left,

mind

always assumed that since she was my

belonging and loving

else sent a chill through our mate bond. The possibility that her

tighten with an emotion I didn’t want

passed before I was allowed to see Sophia. She lay pale against the

brightened when she

she whispered, her voice weak but filled with

closer to her bedside.

“Why did you

her eyes. “You

studied her face, searching for answers I couldn’t quite grasp. “If

tried to kill yourself.”

at the hospital is calling me a mistress who killed Elena’s parents. I was jealous of her, yes, but

this again, I warned her firmly.

has no future with a mother like me.” Sophia lamented, her

to leave, but her hand shot out, grasping my wrist with

leave me alone,” she begged. “I’m scared. I keep

cold. I stood perfectly still, my mother’s words echoing in my mind. In the depths of my fragmented memories, there was a vague figure – someone who had

that figure have

long silence, I carefully removed her hand from my wrist. “Contact the

anything”

as I expected, Sophia said quietly. “Don’t you want me to be the one

you?

nothing and

my phone rang. Amber Stone’s name flashed

Heidi Cross,” she reported