After Six Years The Alpha Begs For My Return Chapter 20
He stopped in front of me. His throat worked several times before he spoke, his voice so hoarse it was barely recognizable. “What she said is true. I never touched Ophelia.”
I said nothing.
“Six years ago, she came to me and said she was carrying my pup. That night, I’d had liquor laced with wolfsbane. My sense of smell, my wolf awareness… it was all dulled. I remember nothing after that. She cornered me at my residence and threatened that if I didn’t acknowledge her, she would jump from the main house terrace and take the so-called heir with her.”
He shut his eyes, the corners threaded with red.
“I checked the hotel surveillance. She did enter my room. The timing matched, and a physician confirmed she was pregnant. I had no memory of that night and no evidence to prove otherwise. I thought… I had to take responsibility.”
“So you made her Luna.”
“I acknowledged a woman I had never touched. I raised a pup who wasn’t mine. In front of all of White Ash River, I carried the stain of betrayal for six years. I accepted the elders’ gossip and what the other Alphas thought of me. I accepted all of it. Because I believed I had wronged you.”