The Witch and Her Four Dangerous Alphas

Chapter 157: Chapter 157: The End and the Vengeance

Selene’s POV~

The truth pressed down heavy in my chest. Because only I knew, more than the hate I showed him, more than the anger I carried, there was fear. I had buried my fear and love behind hatred. Because deep down, I knew. We were never meant to be.

Happiness was not written for me. Whoever I loved, whoever I got close to, was taken away. My mother had left me like that. Others too. Every bond I held turned into pain, loneliness, and betrayal.

I looked down at his face again. His hand was still holding mine tightly, even in sleep. His expression, though wet with tears, was peaceful. Like he was afraid of letting go.

A thought echoed in my mind. We can never be together in this life.

Because I could not forgive myself.

I remembered everything. What I had done to Luca. What I had done to Kael. What I had done to Aeron. And what I had done to him. I was the reason for their fall, the reason they lost their family, their world.

Five years ago, I had ruined them. And when they came back for revenge, I did not fight. I submitted. I never lifted a hand to protect my fake father. Because I knew I was guilty, that I deserved this.

This was the truth I had never spoken aloud. The guilt I carried every day.

I had been their downfall. And they had been my punishment.

We were equal now.

Yes, their cruelty had broken me. Yes, their hatred had cut me open. It had killed something inside me to see the man I once loved destroy me with his own hands. But still, I could not deny it. I was guilty. And so I allowed them their revenge.

them take out their anger on me, but

now, I only wanted distance. I only wanted silence. I only wanted never to repeat that

somewhere between us, there could never be a

face stained with tears, and I sighed heavily. The sound felt like it came from the deepest part

was another thing that was keeping me away from them. Their love... it was not because they truly loved me. It was because fate had tied us together. Because of that

what hurt

chained me, when they broke me down into nothing but a lowly slave. There had been hatred in their eyes. I could still see it if I

was the truth of their feelings. That

I had already decided to forgive them, when I had already chosen to bury everything and leave it all behind, they suddenly wanted me again. They wanted to forget everything, to act

I could never accept

written by fate. I did not want to

never asked them to erase the sins I had committed.

not deserve

love

of their mother.

cut through me like a

came back to me, the memory of what had happened that night, and the screams that still echoed in my mind. The guilt crushed me again, heavy as it had

could they call me their mate and act as if nothing had happened? How could they let that one word erase the blood I had

hand still clinging to mine. My vision blurred,

his sleep, whispering words that sounded like devotion, all I could feel was pain. Pain that no matter what he said, no matter what they claimed, none of it could erase

We could never be.