After Rejection Divorced Luna Becomes A Famous Doctor (Hailey and Dominic) novel Chapter 154

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“You can’t be everywhere at once, Dom. You can’t protect everyone from everything.”

I wanted to believe her. I really did. But the burden of my failure was a physical thing, crushing me from the inside out. It’s been two days now, and there was still no sign of Adrian. I was running out

of options. I was running out of hope. I had to face the possibility that Adrian was dead, and if he

was, I had to find out who was responsible. Before Jonathan Sandler took matters into his own

hands. Before he started a war that would destroy us all.

I tugged my hair, pacing back and forth. Hailey walked towards me, and turned my shoulder,

forcing me to look at her. The turmoil in my heart was overwhelming, a storm of fear, anger, and a deep seated guilt that I couldn’t shake.

This was not how I envisioned my year starting, this was not how I wanted to spend my new year.

Everything was finally coming together, love, family, and peace, but this one incident had

threatened to unravel everything I had worked so hard for.

“I need some air,” I said, my voice hoarse. I needed to be alone, to think. To try and make sense of

the chaos that had become my life. I walked out of the library, leaving Hailey staring after me with

a worried expression on her face.

I couldn’t bring myself to tell her about the earring. Not yet. It was a small, insignificant thing, but it

was a crack in the carefully constructed wall of denial I had built around myself. A wall that was

threatening to crumble, burying me under the realization of my own failures. I needed to be sure. I needed proof.

I walked into my office, the heavy silence of the room a stark contrast to the chaos in my mind. I

couldn’t stay here. I needed to get out of this house, to clear my head. I decided to go for a run, to

let the wolf take over, to lose myself in the physical exertion, the primal freedom of the hunt.

I stripped off my clothes, the cool air a welcome shock against my skin. I focused on the shift, on the familiar, painful pleasure of my bones breaking and re knitting, of my muscles stretching and tearing, of fur sprouting from my skin.

In moments, the Alpha was gone, replaced by the wolf. I was no longer Dominic, the burdened leader, but a creature of instinct and pure, untamed power. I shook out my thick, dark fur, a low growl rumbling in my chest.

I burst out of the house, a blur of motion, and disappeared into the woods. The forest floor was a familiar comfort under my paws, the scent of pine and damp earth a soothing balm to my frayed nerves. I ran, pushing myself harder and faster, the wind whipping through my fur, the rhythm of my paws on the ground a steady, hypnotic beat. I ran until my lungs burned and my muscles screamed

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in protest, until the only thing I could think about was the next step, the next breath.

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My thoughts scattered like leaves in the wind, the relentless pounding of my heart drowning out

the voice of doubt and fear. It was just me, the wolf, and the wild. The simplicity of it all was

intoxicating, and for a moment, I forgot the stress, the pain, the uncertainty. In this moment, in my

wolf form, I was truly free.

The alpha wolf ran, and for a brief time, his mind was at peace.

GIOVANNI

I walked into my bedroom, and Valerie immediately looked up from her phone. She looked so pretty in the ribbed cropped to she was putting on, showing her belly. Her bump was becoming more and more pronounced, her skin glowing.

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