After Rebirth, My Rejecting Alpha’s Regret Chapter 08

After Rebirth, My Rejecting Alpha’s Regret Chapter 08

It was Ryan

I rolled down the window

He was on a motorcycle, wearing a black leather jacket. He reached out his hand to me

Sunlight fell across his face. His eyes were shining. And all I could see in them was my own reflection.

I had begged for that look for eight years in the past life.

He saw my white wedding dress. His hand hesitated. His eyes turned red.

He reached out to lift my veil.

I pulled away.

He started to cry. Tears spilled from his eyes and over his face.

He didn’t wipe them away. He just looked at me. tears falling one after another, dropping to the ground.

“Stephanie,” he choked out. “It took two lifetimes. You are my Luna. The only one.”

I let out a long sigh.

“Ryan.” I said softly. “do you remember the pup we had?”

He froze.

I closed my eyes. Tears slid down my cheeks and fell onto my wedding dress, leaving small dark spots.

That pup died with me. On the day they buried you. Your family pushed me.”

My voice was so soft, like I was afraid of waking something.

“So there’s no chance for us. Not ever again.”

Ryan’s whole body trembled. His mouth opened, then closed again, words failing him as he struggled to breathe

“Stephanie, we can start over… have another pup. Just forgive me… Please… We were together for eight years. I know you

can’t just forget me…”

He didn’t get to finish. A voice came from beside the carriage.

“Of course she can forget you. Otherwise, she wouldn’t be marrying me.”

Kael stood up from his wheelchair

His warriors jumped in surprise. They reached out to steady him, but he waved them off

He walked, one step at a time, toward Ryan. Each step was slow. But steady

His pale face had an almost unreal beauty. He wore a white suit Black hair. white clothes He looked like something

untouchable

Ryan’s pupils shrank

Kael didn’t look at Ryan again. He opened the carriage door and climbed in

He put his arm around my waist and pulled me against him. He rested his chin on my shoulder, so close it was like the

distance between us had never existed.

“Alpha King, this isn’t proper…”

He laughed softly. His warm breath hit my neck.

I’m already halfway to the grave. What do I care about proper?”

He waved a hand. His warriors pulled Ryan off his motorcycle and pinned him to the ground.

The carriage started moving again.

Kael kept his arm around my waist. My back pressed against his chest. I could feel his heart beating slower than normal.

“You…”

“Shh. His voice was so soft, like he was afraid of disturbing something. “Wait until we get there.”

At the ceremony, he could barely hold himself up. The officiant cut most of the vows short. We exchanged promises and

the bond mark, and then they sent me to the wedding room.

After dark, he sent everyone away and walked in alone.

He smelled faintly of wine. His face was flushed. He looked more like a patient than a groom.

He lifted my veil.

His face was right there. I held my breath without meaning to.

He brought the wedding wine to my lips. I grabbed his wrist.

“What’s wrong?”

I bit my lip. “Alpha King, you promised. Tonight you would answer my questions.”

His gaze dropped. His face tightened. I thought I had said something wrong.

I was about to apologize when he spoke in an almost hurt tone.

“Why won’t you call me ‘dear’?”

He looked up at me. His dark eyes were wet. He looked like a pup starved for attention

My face burned It took me a while but I finally whispered. ‘Dear*

He smiled That smile made my heart skip a beat.

“Stephanie.” he said “Just like you and Ryan. I’ve been reborn.”

Before I could even process it, he kept going.

“In the past life. I had my eye on you. For a long time

“But we never met in the past life.”

“You never saw me. But I saw you.”

“After that she-wolf Ryan kept on the side died, no one came for her body. Except you.”

“You spent three months at pack enforcement trying to clear her name. I thought to myself, how someone could be

both foolish… and kind?”

“And then?”

His expression went cold.

“And then you found nothing. Because Faye was the killer. And James helped her cover it up.”

“So that’s how it was…”

“I answered your questions.” He raised the wedding wine to my lips. “Can we drink now?”

There was something deep in his eyes. Not desire. Something deeper. Heavier. Older.

I didn’t take the wine. I pulled his head down and kissed him.

Moonlight slipped through the curtains, spilling across the floor in pale silver streaks.

The wind outside was soft. The lights inside were warm.

The night stretched on endlessly, until even the pain of my past life began to blur at the edges of memory