A Letter from Alpha After Ten Years Chapter 02

A Letter from Alpha After Ten Years Chapter 02

Day Four.

That evening, Liam came home early for once. He had on a fitted shirt, sleeves pushed up, hair falling in his face. My favorite look on him.

“I’ve been neglecting you lately. Let me take you out for a nice dinner tonight.”

I glanced at him and the words came out before I could stop them, “Don’t you have to go take care of Sophie at the hospital?”

The air froze the second the words left my mouth.

Liam’s face went dark, his brow knotting tight.

“Serena, I—” His voice went cold as ice. “I already agreed not to break the mark. Why do you keep going after her?”

I met his angry eyes. Right. He still thought I didn’t know.

He’d spray on cologne before coming home every time, afraid my sharp nose would catch Sophie’s scent.

There was no need to hide it anymore. I’d already promised the future him.

I’d leave.

I called him out: “You leave the pack at four every afternoon. You go to the Joint Werewolf Hospital. Sophie’s on the twelfth floor.”

His pupils contracted. His voice even carried the weight of an Alpha’s fury. “Serena, we agreed before bonding—we’d give each other space.”

“Now look at you. Can’t even trust me at the most basic level?”

I watched him play the victim, nails digging into my palm.

Last summer, Sophie posted a photo on social media.

In it, she tilted her head up, lips pressed against the corner of Liam’s mouth.

Caption: [Truth or dare. He picked dare.]

I shoved the phone in his face, demanded answers. All I got was his impatient response.

“It was a game. You’re overreacting. Serena, mates are supposed to trust each other.”

My trust in him had become the blade he used to cut me.

My phone buzzed. Liam glanced down, then turned to grab his keys.

“Serena, I can’t just leave Sophie alone.”

“As my Luna, I need you to be more understanding.”

“She lost her wolf saving me. I owe her that much.”

He left.

I stood there alone.

An hour later, the doorbell rang.

“Luna.” Liam’s Beta stood outside, his face tight with discomfort. “Alpha sent me to take you to the hospital. Miss Sophie wants to see you.”

The room was on the twelfth floor.

Fresh moonflowers in a vase on the windowsill. Liam brought them every day.

Sophie lay against the hospital bed, gauze wrapped around her wrists.

Her eyes lit up when she saw me.

Then she threw herself into Liam’s arms, hands locking around his neck. “Thank you. For giving me this.”

Liam’s hands hovered midair. He glanced at me, awkward.

“Serena, Sophie wants to talk to you.”

Sophie lifted her head from his chest, a flicker of mockery in her gaze.

“Serena.” Her tone was condescending. “You know Liam was mine first.”

“Our mothers were best friends. We grew up together. Same bed. Same bowl.”

“He promised he’d bond with me when we grew up. He just forgot.”

I laughed coldly, each word deliberate. “He didn’t forget. He just didn’t choose you.”

It was always him—Liam Gray—who fell for me, Serena Blackwood, at first sight.

Her face twisted. She grabbed a pillow and hurled it at me.

“Liar! You stole Liam from me!”

When I dodged, she shrieked and lunged off the bed, shoving me hard in the shoulders.

“You give him back!”

She pushed me back two steps. My hip slammed into the corner of the table.

My wolf bared her teeth—this she-wolf was openly challenging me. She screamed to tear Sophie apart—

I held my wolf back, reaching out to push Sophie away—

Then Liam was there. He pulled Sophie into his arms, and shoved me in the same motion.

I hit the floor, palms scraping across the ground, burning with pain.

Even my wolf was writhing in my skull, gutted by our mate’s betrayal.