Rejected, And Became A Heiress

My Billionaire Please Became 43

Chapter 0043

SIX YEARS LATER.

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Alaric's POV

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"Where are those reports I asked for?"

I speak to my Beta, my former butler.

'After that disaster of a wedding and Cara's accident, I had a hard time than usual trusting anyone. I promoted my butler, reasoning that he at least had been with me long enough to be trustworthy. But he isn't as good as Cara.

No one is. It's an unfortunate lesson that I'm reminded of every single day. At least my former butler is better at the Beta job than that wretched excuse for a Gamma, George.

"Right here, sir!" My butler replies, placing a stack of papers.

in my hand.

I glance down at the reports, already knowing what I'm going to see.

Our pack is growing, both in size and in influence, just as I had always hoped.

I've been working day and night for the last six years to ensure this outcome.

It's not like I had anything better to do.

I have to work. If I stop, I can't help but think of her-the one I promised never to see again.

But whenever I work, it's really hard not to think of her. She's the best beta in the world.

And she's the one who weighs on my heart.

...Cara.

head roughly, physically trying to drop the thought

off having a personal life. I have more pressing matters to attend to. Like making DarkWood the

as I can, but I'm only one person, and I can't be in

my own deals, and I don't delegate. I can handle this

that's what I've been telling myself for

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DarkWood has grown strong enough; our next step is must

at the diplomatic request I

Arbun as soon

to

Ruby's POV

could muster for myself. They're scampering off to the BloodyMoon's playground again, not bothering to wait for me. "Wait! Kids! Wait for me!" I yell to Mia

of her mother, Cara, from behind. Only her bright piercing blue eyes show signs of

but his eyes match his mother's soothing

eyes, the other has his father's hair and his mother's eyes. They're

Ruby!" I hear Mia's little voice call

Auntie Ruby.

since those

accident, Cara woke from her coma and delivered the babies miraculously with

for almost five

really hard to watch sometimes. My confident, dependable, and capable best friend was confined to a bed in the BloodyMoon Alpha villa, unable to care for her own children the way

like we could just call

She spent nearly her whole life being self-sufficient and taking care of herself, an orphaned outsider in Pack DarkWood.

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The other half though...

me, Ruby. On their lives. On Grandmother." Cara had said to me the night they were

time. I remember her face was bright red, almost

with the urgency of the promise she was asking from me. "Promise me, Honey, that you will never, EVER speak of Alaric to these children. They

left are these children. If Alaric discovers them,

away.

H

around her in