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

he was finally allowing himself

the Blackwood heir, classmates and teachers approached me with ulterior motives, so I didn’t

must have been. Isolated by his status, unable to

The First Time

my mother brought me back to the Northern Territory to make me more sociable,

I wasn’t good at speaking and was withdrawn, I was isolated by my classmates,

had been his lifeline during a vulnerable

lips in silence. After I was rescued from the k********g,

he was already the confident Alpha heir, and I

hugged

slightly on my name, and I felt something wet against my shoulder.

feeling I had the first time I saw you

some part of him had recognized me even when his conscious mind

you again, I’m still

laughed softly, the

suddenly asked, “Do you think this

to be asleep. I couldn’t handle

was pretending, and he was indeed disappointed, but

start. I had

streamed through the medical facility windows, casting everything in a

look at the man beside me and suddenly sat up. How

on the contrary, he was sleeping soundly,

shallow.

through me as I realized something was

“Marcus?” I pushed him.

pale, almost gray in the morning

reached out to check his breath. Fortunately… he

His breathing was so faint I had

My action of pulling my hand back happened to fall

you think I was dead?” he asked