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Now, sitting alone in their abandoned wedding house, Alpha Waldo felt the weight of his
mistakes crushing him. This place, once meant to be the foundation of their future, now felt like a tomb. He deserved every bit of this pain.
The proposal that had been carefully planned- once supposed to be a milestone of their love- now sat hollow, an empty memory. The woman who should have been there, sharing that
moment with him, was gone. She wasn’t just absent–she was lost.
The people in the room looked at each other in disbelief, struggling to comprehend how Valerie could have simply vanished. How could she have left without a word, without a sign, for ten
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whole years?
Her silence, her departure, was the loudest message of all–a message that no one had given her a reason to stay.
He reached for the diamond ring, the one he had designed just for her, the one he had imagined slipping onto her finger in the
happiest of moments. But now, all it symbolized was his failure, his inability to recognize what he
had.
Tears blurred his vision as he thought of her -of what could have been, of the future he had carelessly thrown away. His calls went unanswered, his messages met with silence. He had so many things to say, so many apologies, so many regrets. But it was too late. She was
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gone, slipping away from him like sand through his fingers.
The suffocating weight of his loss pressed down on him, unbearable and unyielding.
“Valerie, how could you be so cruel?” he wondered. “How could you disappear so completely from my life without even a goodbye?”
Alanna rushed to his side, holding him tightly as if she could shield him from his own guilt.
“Waldo, please. She doesn’t love you anymore. You need to stop this. It’s breaking my heart to watch you destroy yourself like this.”
His eyes didn’t leave the ring. He didn’t want to
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look at her. The wolf inside him, wounded and furious, growled low, a warning that Alanna didn’t understand. He barely heard her words, drowned out by the roar of his own thoughts.
Alanna’s breath was warm against his ear as she whispered, “You need to move on. For both of
us.”
But her words barely registered. It wasn’t until his mind flashed back to a moment in the early morning, a memory that felt like a gut punch, that his wolf’s instincts snapped awake.
“Did Valerie call?” he had asked, his voice full of desperation.
Alanna had hesitated, her face twitching like a wolf caught in a lie, but her answer was quick,
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too quick. “No, no… um, she didn’t.”
His hands clenched, his wolf’s instincts setting off alarm bells in his head. “Lies.”
His hands clenched. “Alanna, I’m asking you again. Did you delete the call record? What did she say?”
Alanna’s voice trembled with her denial. “I didn’t! Waldo, please, you have to trust me.”
But just as he felt the breaking point, someone emerged from the shadows. A figure stepped forward and played a video, the screen
capturing a video call–a call that told the truth he had been desperately seeking.
The storm of truth was about to engulf him. And
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there was no escaping it.
He and Alanna had developed a habit of staying on video calls until the early hours, sometimes even recording their conversations. This particular video showed Alanna talking to Valerie late into the night.
“Is something wrong? It’s so late…”
“Alpha Waldo? He’s so tired. He’s in the shower right now.”
“If you don’t need anything else, I’m going to hang up. We still have the second half of the night ahead.”
The room went silent.
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Everyone in the room understood the unspoken tension in those words. They began to piece together the implications–how many times over the past year had Alanna blurred the lines between “brother” and “sister“? How many
moments had she taken for herself, letting
Valerie believe something that wasn’t true?
“Waldo, listen, let me explain!” Alanna’s voice trembled, desperate for him to understand.
But Alpha Waldo couldn’t contain the fury bubbling up inside him. He shoved her away, his face stone–cold. “Alanna, the favor your family did for me is repaid. Leave. Now.”
Alanna, on the verge of tears, screamed, “Waldo, I admit it–I was despicable! But I love you. That’s why I did all of this. We’ve grown up
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together! You’ve always been so kind to me. Why can’t I be the one if you’re marrying her?”
Her words grew more venomous with each syllable. “I’m younger, I’m prettier, I have more time to be with you! Valerie is gone. Let me take her place. Let me love you, okay?”
Her makeup, already smeared from hours of crying, had all but disappeared, leaving her raw and exposed.
Alpha Waldo looked at her with a frigid expression, his voice unwavering. “No. I have only ever loved Valerie. In this life, and the
next.”
“Now, get out!” he spat, the words harsh and final.
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Three months later, a new custom–made wedding dress arrived at his door. Alpha Waldo staggered to the door, his body weighed down by a mountain of empty bottles. He hadn’t slept for days.
With shaking hands, he opened the massive gift box, the scent of the carefully wrapped fabric filling the room. His mind wandered back to the bridal shop, to the memory of Alanna wearing the dress, pretending it was a game. She’d laughed, spinning in circles as if it all meant nothing.
But in that moment, he remembered something else–something more important.
He remembered seeing Valerie standing outside,
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talking quietly on the phone, her face bathed in the soft light of the shop window.
The image of her, standing there alone, lingered in his mind, a constant reminder of what he had lost, what he had pushed away.
Chapter 15
