5 Years of Love Was Just a Disguise The Alpha’s Revenge Was Real Chapter 07

5 Years of Love Was Just a Disguise The Alpha’s Revenge Was Real Chapter 07

I walked deeper into the terminal and didn’t look back.

Amelia’s scream chased after me.

“You actually hit me, Lydia?! Who the hell do you think you are?! You think just because you saved me once, I owe you my whole life? That I should be your servant forever?! Yeah, you brought me in from the border. But everything after that? I built that myself! We both came from the border! Just because your mom slept her way into a better life, you think you’re better than me?! I don’t owe you! I don’t owe you a goddamn thing!”

Her voice ricocheted off every wall in the terminal.

I didn’t slow down. If anything, I walked faster.

Then Amelia screamed again — but this time it was different.

“Oh my god! Steven, what are you doing?!”

“Put the knife down!”

The crowd behind me erupted.

I spun around. Steven stood there with a knife in his hand.

“Lydia, is this about your ear? You blame me for what they did to your ear? What if I pay you back with mine, then? Will you forgive me?”

His eyes were wild, completely bloodshot, and before anyone could move, he sliced into his own left ear.

Blood ran down his jaw in a thin, steady line, but he didn’t seem to feel it at all.

“Steven, put the knife down!”

Amelia stood frozen beside him, panic written all over her face, backing away one step at a time. Steven didn’t even glance at her. His gaze was locked on me, and when he spoke again, his voice was shaking.

“Lydia, tell me — if I give it back, will you forgive me?”

I stared at him and gave him nothing.

His face went white, and the blade pressed deeper. The blood kept coming, but his eyes never left mine.

After a few seconds, his hand went still.

“Lydia, do you really not love me anymore? Doesn’t any part of you still care? You used to fall apart if I got a scratch…”

“Even if I messed up — you really don’t think any of this is on you?!”

Hurt and something darker twisted across his face. He dropped the knife and ground every word out between his teeth.

“You came to me first! Five years. Yeah, I lied. But I paid for it too, didn’t I? If you’d told me the truth sooner, none of this would’ve happened!”

His jaw clenched so hard I could see the muscle jump, and his voice dropped into something dangerous.

“You can leave. But what about your mom? She was my father’s mistress. Where exactly does she think she’s going to hide?! Lydia, just come home. We’ll talk this out… I’ll end things with Amelia. I’ll bond with you — for real this time. We can start over. No Amelia, no one else. I promise.”

Steven was shouting in the middle of the airport lobby like no one else existed.

Amelia stood beside him in open-mouthed shock, then lurched forward and grabbed his arm, her voice breaking.

“Steven, what do you mean you’ll end things with me? I’m pregnant! I’m carrying your pup!”

Steven’s face twisted with irritation. He shoved her off with one hand.

Her foot slid in a puddle of his blood on the floor, and she went down hard, slamming onto the hard tile.

“Oh god—”

“My belly — something’s wrong!”