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Chapter 229

Alexander

Ella was dead.

She’d passed away during labor a week ago, and it still didn’t feel real. Not when the coroner came to take

her away, not when the funeral director asked me to pick out a casket, and not even now, when her body was laying on display just downstairs.

She couldn’t be dead. I refused to believe it. I swore my bond to her hadn’t fully severed somehow, as if

faint threads of it still existed in the ether….

she

could turn back the clock and never lock her up. Maybe if she hadn’t felt the need to rush to her family’s burnt home in secret, I could have been there to help her when she

was done. Ella was dead,

Our son.

after the word “light“. It wasn’t a family name like I’d hoped to give my firstborn, but it felt fitting. He was the only thing keeping me going at the moment–a


son in my arms for the first time was when it finally hit me: I did love her. I’d always tried not to fall for her, even to the point of refusing to think the word to

And ensure that Lucien, born too early and too small and without a mother, was safe and cared for. If I couldn’t do anything else, then I had to do

a sleeping Lucien bundled up

new Beta. I’d appointed him just three days ago, when my Alpha King advisors finally brought him to my office and insisted that I needed a Beta. I hardly knew him,

wasn’t him. It was

the urge to send her away. She had been the one to find Ella in the forest and help her deliver Lucien; if she hadn’t, both

died.

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