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I laughed.
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Laughed until tears streamed down my face.
When I first chose to be with Alpha Joseph, my father warned me.
He said Joseph had been deeply scarred by his upbringing–moody, hypersensitive, easily unhinged. If I wanted to stay by his side, I’d have to accept all of it, even guide him through it. One misstep, and he’d spiral into ruin.
Back then, I brushed it off.
I thought love–true love–could heal anything.
I was wrong.
Horribly wrong.
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“Can you bring them back, Joseph? Can you undo everything you did? Can you rewind time and take away all the pain?”
His mouth opened, then shut again. He had no answer–because there
was none.
I lifted my left hand, staring at the empty space where my wedding ring
used to be.
Only a faint indentation remained, like a ghost of something long gone.
“Your love, Joseph, just like that ring… I threw it away. I don’t want it
anymore.”
Suddenly, his eyes lit up like he’d discovered the solution to everything.
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“If I find the ring–our wedding ring- does that mean I can win back your love? Bring back the woman who
once loved me?”
I gave him a cold glance. “You’re delusional. How dare you even say that? You had a hand in my family’s deaths, and you think we can go back to the way things were? That kind of
love died with them.”
“But even if there’s just a sliver of
hope–I have to try! Melissa, I can’t live without you!”
And then he left–to find the ring.
Meanwhile, I remained his prisoner, locked in that sterile hospital room.
I didn’t know what else to do but cry.
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“Don’t waste your energy,” I said coldly. “The moment you touched my sister, Joseph, we were finished. I don’t love you anymore. Whatever feelings I had for you died. If anything, all I feel now is hate. And I wish you
were dead.”
Joseph stumbled back like I’d slapped
him.
“Melissa, I swear–never again. I’ll give you everything–my wealth, the entire Black Mist Pack–everything I own, everything I am. I’ll obey your every word, I’ll follow your every command. Just… love me like you used to.”
Gone was the arrogant Alpha who once ruled with pride and cruelty.
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But I felt no pity.
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He’d made his bed. Now he could rot
in it.
“I want one thing,” I said, voice flat. “Let me go. Let me leave you–for good.”
“No!” he roared, madness flaring in his eyes. “Never! I did all of this so you’d never leave me!”
Then he turned and stormed out of
the room.
For the next two weeks, I didn’t see him again.
But I knew he was still there.
Every night, he would sit quietly by
my bedside until morning.
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e asleep, unwilling
And just like that, a month passed.
But instead of healing, my body grew
weaker.
healing, my body grew
The miscarriage had wrecked my
core, and the grief of losing my family never stopped crushing med my
of the grief of losing my family
I no longer held hope for lite
Or myself. held hope for life.
I had withered–so much that I barely recognized the woman in the mirror.
lithered–so much that I barely Lognized the woman in the mirror.
