Didn’t want to believe it.
Rebecca nodded slowly. “You’re hurting. I understand. I don’t expect anything from you, Lennox. I just… I saw you breaking, and I wanted to be there.”
They both wore the same worried, confused look.
I looked at him.
I looked away first, stepping back like I’d just been burned. The cold air rushed between us, but it did nothing to cool the heat rising in my chest.
There was silence again. This one heavier. Sadder.
“But they won’t tell us,” I added bitterly. “They’re still protecting some secret. Even now.”
I slumped against the wall, shutting my eyes… my mind replaying that kiss over and over. Damn it, why did it feel so good and so right?
Olivia wouldn’t just die like that.
He bowed slightly. “A letter just arrived… addressed to the three of you.”
He blinked. “Me?”
I looked them in the eyes. “No,” I said. “We wouldn’t have. I couldn’t have.”
The library doors opened, and a guard stepped in, holding a folded letter in his gloved hand.
“Yes, Alpha,” the guard nodded.
Was this betrayal to Damien?
“I don’t want to,” I whispered.
He examined the seal before he carefully broke the seal, unfolded the paper, and began to read.
Then Louis exhaled sharply and muttered, “What if Olivia was still alive?”
He met my eyes. “That she’s dead.”
“And Olivia…” Louis added quietly, “might be related to us.”
“Yeah,” I said slowly, rubbing the back of my neck. “That’s what makes it worse.”
“She could be our cousin, and I still wouldn’t have been able to let her go,” I admitted. My voice cracked near the end, and I hated it. Hated how broken I sounded. “Even when I tried to hate her… it didn’t work. Even after everything we did to her, all she had to do was look at me and I-” I shook my head. “I would’ve stayed.”
She didn’t either.
A pause.
God, I wanted to pull away.
Then Levi spoke, his voice quiet, almost hollow.
The door to the library creaked open, snapping me from my thoughts. I looked up to see my brothers stepping in.
Did I feel guilty?
Because I knew the answer/We all did.
“But they weren’t lying” L?vi muttered. “You saw their faces. You heard their voices.”
Louis sighed, pressing a hand to his forehead. “Shit…”
I wanted to end this madness.
My chest tightened.
My heart screamed yes.
The words punched the air out of me.
Her eyes met mine, filled with a thousand questions neither of us had the answer to.
“The sender…” he said quietly, “just signed it with a G.”
Dustin stepped forward, hesitantly taking the letter.
He paused, then looked down at the bottom of the letter.
Did I regret it?
“And that’s what pisses me off the most,” Louis growled. “They destroyed everything just to hide something none of us even understand.”
“I… I didn’t mean to do that,” I said hoarsely, running a hand through my hair.
We all stiffened.
Moments later, Dustin walked in, his brows raised in concern. “You called me?”
I clenched my fists.
The guard hesitated, clearly caught off guard. “But… it states important-“
I hesitated.
Because kissing her made the screaming in my head
Then-
It should’ve felt wrong.
Too good. go quiet.
My heart sank, and all I could think of was the possibility that Olivia might still be alive.
That made us all pause.
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“Save Rebecca from Alpha Damien… don’t be deceived… everything is fake.
“G?” I repeated.
“I know,” she whispered. “Me neither.”
Neither did 1.
But I couldn’t.
“What?”
My lips stayed silent.
“They know more than they’re saying,” Levi muttered. “They’ve known it for years. If she was related to us, if they traced her bloodline all the way back to our great-grandmother, then they must’ve found names. Something.”
A knock.
But at that moment, I didn’t care.
I let out a bitter laugh. “What the hell even is our life?”
Louis’s eyes narrowed. “What the hell does that mean?”
My hands slid to her waist before I could think, and she leaned into me like she belonged there. The way her fingers curled against my chest… the way she exhaled like she had been holding her breath for hours…
Just silence.
Louis finally leaned against the opposite wall, arms crossed, his eyes distant. “I still can’t believe it.”
I swallowed hard.
Levi exchanged a glance with me. “Still… it could be spelled.”
“Me neither,” Levi muttered, pacing slowly. “Our own parents… they forged those letters. Lied to us. Manipulated us.”
“Thank you,” I said softly.
The kind that dripped heavier than any words could manage.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.