Chapter 312
Don’t Let Her Go
Third Person POV
The next day.
“Alpha, Ms. Mary rented a scenic villa on the nearby hillside.”
“Let her rent it!”
“Alpha, Ms. Mary said the lab is busy and she won’t come down for meals.”
“Let her be!”
“Alpha, Ms. Mary is packing to move out!”
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Even after steeling himself, Alpha Henry’s blood boiled when he heard she really was leaving. Rage lit his eyes like twin fires that threatened to consume his reason.
He had to stop her. Did she think the Miguel family estate was a place she could come and go from as she pleased?
At that moment Adelyn arrived and saw her son racked with anger. Without thinking she grabbed him. “Where are you going?”
“Aren’t you leaving?” Alpha Henry answered, not meaning it. “I’m going to help her move.”
Adelyn was equal parts amused and exasperated. Her son had always seemed steady in his role as alpha, yet at the thought of Aubrey he was helplessly undone.
“If you storm over there in this state, you’ll only make things worse between you two. I don’t see any other outcome.”
“How else am I supposed to act?” Alpha Henry glared at his mother, voice tight. “I’ve been humbling myself–I’ve even asked her to marry me! But she-”
He trailed off, remembering how relentless Aubrey had been that night. He had no counter, no leverage. He’d been utterly powerless.
Adelyn sighed. “But Aubrey is a patient…”
She pressed him down onto the sofa. “She’s given so much for you. You’re a pillar of the wolf clans–how can you not give a little for her?”
A sour taste filled Alpha Henry’s mouth. He didn’t know how to explain that this wasn’t a simple matter of conceding. Even if he stomped on his pride, Aubrey might never change her stance.
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That was why he had tried to lose with grace that night.
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Seeing him silent, Adelyn huffed. “Tell me this–do you really want to stand by and watch Aubrey move out?”
Of course he didn’t.
At the thought of her packing, he wanted to set her new home on fire.
Adelyn read his expression and knew his heart still belonged to Aubrey. He was just too proud to bend right now, and with Aubrey leaving he’d been denied the chance to make his move. So she, as elder, would give him a ladder to climb down on.
“You already stepped a hundred paces toward her,” she said. “What’s another hundred? Compared to what she’s done for you, isn’t trying again worth it?”
Adelyn said that on purpose–she could tell Henry didn’t truly want to let Aubrey go. Since he wouldn’t humble himself and Aubrey hadn’t given him an opening, the elder would hand him
one.
Alpha Henry felt a tug. Though he swore he wouldn’t beg again, the memory of her tearful–yet- smiling eyes softened him. He regretted his absolute words.
But could he really go groveling back to her? After such a decisive quarrel days ago, he feared that yielding too quickly would make her even more unruly.
Adelyn patted his shoulder. “I’ve said my piece. Happiness must be fought for. You already missed your chance once–you shouldn’t miss it a second time.”
Once she left, Alpha Henry sat in silence.
Adelyn had said he’d missed her once–meaning he failed to keep her when she loved him.
But to Henry, he had missed her twice.
In the last life he betrayed her.
In this life she had loved him with her life, voluntarily taking the Kajit infection for him–and he had disappointed her again.
No. He would not miss her again.
Fueled by that resolve, Alpha Henry rose abruptly.
He could not let her go. If she left, patching things between them would become almost impossible. No! I won’t miss her again!