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.

weak... I let them take out their anger on me, but

I only wanted silence. I only wanted never to

love still existed somewhere between

looked at him, at his face stained with tears, and I sighed heavily. The sound felt like it came from

not because they truly loved me. It was because fate had tied us

was what hurt the

when they captured me, when they 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 closed

of their feelings.

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 like it had never happened, only because I

could never accept

want to be loved because of a bond written by fate. I did not want to be

the sins I had committed. Because I knew. I knew better than anyone

not

how could a man love the woman who had

right! I was the murderer of their mother. I

thought cut through me

chest ached, my breath caught. Their mother’s face 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

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

my eyes to his hand still clinging to mine. My vision blurred, and I felt tears

that sounded like devotion, all I could feel was pain. Pain that no matter what he said, no matter what they

We could never be.