Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever novel · Chapter 15 of 24
Chapter 15: The Medal
Dorian took Pippa by the arm before she could lift the cup.
His fingers closed around the soft cream sleeve, and he felt how thin her wrist was under it.
He had held that wrist in the dark and thought it was the kindest thing in the house.
"Let go," Pippa said. "Dorian, you're hurting me."
"Walk."
He pulled her down the aisle toward the doors, past three hundred faces that would not look at him.
The two guards at the doors did not step aside.
They looked past him at the Luna.
He had no voice to give them, and he knew exactly how that felt now.
"Let her go through," Rosalind said from the table.
The guards moved.
He dragged Pippa out into the cold and shoved her down on a stone bench in the porch.
"Say it again," he said.
"Say what?"
"What you said in there. That you put it in front of me seven times."
She straightened her sleeve with a shaking hand.
"You never read a single one," she said. "Not once in five months. You held the pen, and you thanked me."
"I thought it was for her good."
"You thought it was for your good." She laughed. "You wanted her to cry and come begging so you could be generous."
He opened his mouth.
He closed it, because it was true.
"I picked you, Dorian," she said. "At the border meeting. Papa said the Greywater Alpha was proud and lonely and would believe whatever was written down. I only had to be warm to you."
"The night of the gas."
"Papa kept you at his table until midnight. It was a lovely supper." Her eyes were bright and calm. "You talked about your wife the whole time, you know. It was so tedious."
He let go of her arm.
He stood on the porch of the Gathering Hall, where he had been crowned Alpha at twenty-six, and shook.
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