After Severance,Alpha Fell in Love With Ex-Luna

Chapter 185: The First Time He Saw Her

Chapter 185: The First Time He Saw Her

(Elena Blackwood’s POV)

I felt my blood running cold, the ringing in my ears so intense I thought I was hallucinating. Marcus had just confessed that he had fallen for me long ago.

The words echoed in my mind like a cruel joke. After everything we’d been through, after all the pain and betrayal, he chose now to tell me this?

My body went rigid in his arms. The warmth of his embrace suddenly felt suffocating instead of comforting

“Is that so?” I asked, staring at a patch of light on the wall.

My voice came out flat and emotionless. I couldn’t bring myself to look at him.

“You say you fell for me early on, but wasn’t it you who forced me to submit to Sophia, who distrusted me, who pushed me towards despair?”

Silence followed from behind me. The only sound was his shallow breathing against my neck.

I continued calmly, without a trace of emotion. “You were never on my side, even when you wavered, you still favored Sophia in your heart.”

The accusation hung in the air between us like a blade. Years of suppressed hurt poured out in those simple words.

“I favored her because I thought I had wronged her,” Marcus said quietly.

His voice carried a weight I’d never heard before. Raw and vulnerable in a way that caught me off guard.

“After she returned to the Northern Territory, I no longer felt that old stirring emotion for her. I knew it was your appearance that made me unable to guard my heart.”

He shifted slightly, his arms tightening around me as if afraid I might disappear.

“I didn’t really want to neglect you those years; I just resented myself for betraying my feelings for her, sol had to treat you coldly.”

I was momentarily dazed, unable to respond for a long time. This explanation turned everything I thought I knew upside down.

He had been fighting his own feelings for me while trying to honor what he believed he owed Sophia. The cruelty I’d interpreted as indifference had been his way of punishing himself.

of that k********g, Sophia just happened to appear when I needed her

softer, more reflective. Like he was finally

was always in private schools abroad. Because of my identity as the Blackwood

could picture the lonely boy he must have been. Isolated by his status, unable to trust

First Time He Saw

to make me more sociable, hiding my family

withdrawn, I was isolated

his lifeline during a vulnerable time, which explained his misplaced loyalty to

eyelashes, pursing my lips in silence. After I was rescued from the k********g, I never saw Marcus again, so I

was a freshman in college. By then, he was already

hugged me

I felt something wet against my shoulder. Was

I had the first time I saw you wasn’t just because of your appearance, but because I already knew you, but

blow. All those years, some part of him had recognized me even

seeing you again, I’m

the sound bitter and

“Do you

closed my eyes, pretending to be asleep. I couldn’t handle this conversation anymore. The revelations were

get my answer, and knew she was pretending, and he was indeed

a start. I

through the medical facility windows, casting everything in a harsh, clinical

the man beside me

hadn’t woken up; on the contrary, he was sleeping soundly, so soundly

shallow.

through me as I realized something

“Marcus?” I pushed him.

His skin looked pale, almost gray in the

beat, and I reached out to check his breath.

barely. His breathing was so faint I had to lean close to feel

opened his eyes. My action of pulling my hand back happened to fall into

me like that, did you think I