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Chapter 0118

Cara's POV

Alaric's features instantly harden at my question.

"Do you... love me?" I asked him. For every moment that passes without a response, it's as if the question continues to echo around us, endlessly repeating,

His mouth forms a hard line, and he looks down at the ground, folding his hands with his elbows resting on his knees.

I wait.

And wait.

...And wait.

And finally, he speaks.

"No."

The word hits me like a bullet. Like all the air immediately vanishes from my lungs in a great gasp, stealing all of my oxygen.

It feels as though the ground has been pulled, no, ripped, from beneath me. Like suddenly there's a great hollowness that exists inside of my chest. And to think, I had told myself that I was over him.

I realize with the freshness of an open wound that I am disappointed.

Completely and utterly disappointed.

I realize something has left my heart. The expectations, fantasies, and past that I once had

.they have departed from me.

That's his final answer.

To my surprise, I became very calm.

I realize I haven't responded to him. I haven't spoken a word. I clear my throat, testing the sound of my own voice. I hear myself reply to him calmly.

"Alright, I should have known this clearly since six years ago."

Even though there almost no emotion in my tone, the statement itself sounded like a self-deprecating joke.

Alaric opens his mouth, a flicker of anxiety crossing his eyes.

"...Cara, I-"

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any specialty care that Mia has received thanks to you, I am truly grateful for your help in saving

I'm not finished

are no longer

your

I see Alaric move towards me the slightest bit. His stare lingers on me,

for a moment longer before finally raising

without uttering another word. I watch his tall silhouette, that once I loved silhouette disappear from the

in the past, he left my world without hesitation

but maybe it's

are tightly closed, still in the realm of sleeping. Her mouth was borned

I took a deep breath, and exhaled a breath of turbid

indeed some things that should

John's POV

check in with my Alpha King. Alaric had left specific instructions that he was not to be disturbed with calls or texts this morning, even from

urgently needed to attend to that little girl, Cara's daughter, Mia. After I received the call from Dr. Marlow requesting the special medicine, the Alpha King demanded that he attend to

though, I have to admit. For an Alpha King to be so personally invested, so personally involved, in the medical care of a

rumors would be

Alpha King, Alaric needed no one's permission to do as

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to my eyes, someone who knows him well. It is quite cinious that the Apha King o be harboring immersely strong feelings

could possibly be drawn from the way the Alpha King is

full moon was abways full of tasks: status reports for any newly shifted wolves, assessments of any damage incurred, as well as assessments of any newly

Grant had a very

inside of the hospital "Alpha King, sir, I have several updates for you this moming." I call to him, jogging to catch

"What was that?

angrily, not bothering to turn to face

I hadn't expected him to

I ask tentatively, not wanting to push him further when he's in

merely grunts at me in

of where he's headed. After we circle the same corridor twice, it dawns on me that Alaric doesn't know where he's going either. He's not thinking straight now,

with you, please?" I ask, opening the door

office room.

brushing past me firmly, marching

door.

is it, Beta?" He

at my comment, clearly in no mood to