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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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all of the medicines, any specialty care that Mia has received thanks to you, I am truly grateful for your help in

I'm not

I are no longer connected. Mia and I no longer need

your

His stare lingers on me, and I don't know

stares at me for a moment longer before finally raising

uttering another word. I watch his tall silhouette,

left my world

mates, but maybe it's

little Mia. Her eyes are tightly closed, still in the realm of

I took a deep breath, and

some things that

John's POV

Alpha King. Alaric had left specific instructions that he was not to be disturbed with calls or texts this morning, even from me, his Beta unless it was an

me that he was 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

King to be so personally invested, so personally involved, in the medical care of a child from a neighboring pack. Even the child of a

the rumors would be spreading

needed no one's permission to do as he

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many moms

mous

him well. It is quite cinious that the Apha King o be harboring immersely

drawn from the way the

status reports for any newly shifted wolves,

Grant had a very busy day ahead of

sir, I have several updates for you this moming." I call to him, jogging to catch up

"What was that?

asks me angrily, not bothering to

hadn't expected

everything alright, sir?" I ask tentatively, not wanting to push him further when

merely grunts at me in

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.

with you, please?" I

office room.

brushing past

door.

Beta?"

due respect..." Alaric growls at my comment, clearly in no mood to hear