Alpha's Abandoned Daughter is the Secret Heiress novel Chapter 217

Chapter 217: I Will Never Allow You to Hurt La Again

Chapter 217: I Will Never Allow You to Hurt Lia Again

(Caleb’s POV)

I stared at the breakfast sandwich in my hand.

It was cold now.

This was the offering Amelia had rejected without a second glance.

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My stomach growled, a hollow reminder of my hunger, but the food tasted like ash in my mouth.

I forced myself to eat it, swallowing my pride along with the stale bread.

There was no point in wasting it.

We didn’t have the luxury of waste anymore.

I pulled out my phone, my thumb hovering over the screen.

I had been scrolling through rental listings since last night, my eyes burning from the strain.

The Moore family estate was suffocating, filled with unspoken judgment and open hostility.

We couldn’t stay here.

I finally found a listing that seemed adequate.

It was a four-bedroom apartment in a complex on the edge of the city.

The location was terrible compared to the Stone River Pack House.

The environment was noisy, and the building looked worn in the photos.

But we were desperate.

Being kicked out of our home had left us with few options.

“It will have to do,” I muttered to myself.

I tapped the screen, transferring the funds for the first month’s rent and the security deposit from my personal savings.

It was a significant chunk of what I had left.

I told myself it was temporary.

I would save up.

I would buy us a proper house, something decent where we could rebuild.

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I booked a moving service through an app, confirming the earliest slot.

Only then did I stand up, exhaustion weighing down every limb, and trudged back to the Moore

residence.

***

I entered the living room, hoping to slip upstairs unnoticed.

My cousin Xavier was waiting for me.

He sat on the plush sofa, legs crossed, a cruel smirk playing on his lips.

“Back already?” Xavier asked, his voice dripping with sarcasm.

He didn’t bother looking up from his tablet.

“I seem to recall someone making a big speech about leaving yesterday,” he sneered. “Are you

planning to stick around like a bad smell?”

I clenched my fists at my sides.

Noah, my wolf, growled low in my mind, urging me to snap back.

But I held my tongue.

This was my mother’s family.

I couldn’t make things difficult for her by starting a fight with her nephew.

“The movers are on their way,” I said, my voice cold and steady.

Xavier laughed, a sharp, barking sound that grated on my nerves.

He looked me up and down with undisguised contempt.

“Good,” he said. “I was worried you were planning to be a freeloader.”

He paused for effect.

“Were you hoping to mooch a free meal before you crawled out of here?”

My jaw tightened until my teeth ached.

“We don’t need your charity,” I spat out.

I turned on my heel and marched upstairs.

I found my father, Adrian, in the guest bedroom.

He was sitting on the edge of the bed, staring at his hands.

“Dad,” I said softly. “Pack your things. We’re leaving.

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Adrian looked up.

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His eyes were filled with a mixture of rage and humiliation.

He was an Alpha, used to commanding respect, now reduced to living under some

5 roof.

He didn’t say a word, just nodded and began closing his suitcase.

He endured the shame in silence, but I could feel the tension radiating off him.

When the moving truck arrived, we carried our boxes down.

Xavier stood in the doorway, watching us struggle.

“Don’t come back,” he called out as we loaded the last box. “Next time you get kicked out, don’t

come crawling to us.”

I ignored him.

I helped Dad into the car, and we drove away without looking back.

***

It was one in the afternoon by the time we finished moving everything into the apartment.

The place smelled of dust and old lemon cleaner.

I collapsed onto the second–hand sofa, wiping sweat from my brow.

Dad stood by the window, looking out at the crowded street below.

His face was dark, like a storm cloud about to burst.

“My efforts,” Adrian muttered, his voice low and dangerous. “Wasted again.”

I sat up, confused.

“What?”

“Amelia,” he hissed. “She’s ruined it. The internet is in an uproar because of you and her.”

I frowned, pulling my phone from my pocket.

“I posted that message to protect her,” I said. “The fans will see my resolve. They’ll support us.”

I opened the social media app.

My blood ran cold.

It hadn’t worked.

It had backfired in the worst possible way.

My fans were attacking Amelia, calling her a “hillbilly” from the Meadow Brook Pack.

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They were mocking her, saying she didn’t deserve a brother like me.

But the backlash from the general public was swift and brutal.

A new hashtag was trending at number one.

#CaleblsGuilty.

I clicked on it, my fingers trembling.

Someone had released what they called a “smoking gun.”

It was a detailed report about my car accident.

It exposed everything.

It revealed that my coma wasn’t an accident at all.

It claimed I had instructed my bodyguards to sabotage the brakes on Amelia’s car.

It explained that Amelia had rammed me only to save her own life.

“No…” I whispered.

Then I saw the video link.

“Receipts,” the caption read.

I pressed play.

It was surveillance footage.

Clear, undeniable footage of my bodyguards tampering with her vehicle.

It was concrete proof of my crime.

The comments section was a slaughterhouse.

“He tried to kill his sister!”

“Vicious monster!”

“He deserves prison, not forgiveness!”

I felt the room spin.

Noah let out a terrified whimper in the back of my mind, curling into a ball of fear.

***

A heavy hand landed on my shoulder.

I jumped, looking up.

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Dad was standing over me.

He held up his hand, the one missing the pinky finger that Amelia had demanded.

“Stop looking at it,” he commanded.

Tears blurred my vision.

“Dad,” I choked out. “What do we do? How can I get her to forgive us? We need that antidote for

Ethan.”

Adrian sighed heavily.

He sat down on the armchair opposite me, his expression unreadable.

“I raised you and Ethan differently,” he began, his voice devoid of warmth.

“I let you run wild, Caleb. I let your personality develop without check.”

He leaned forward.

“That is why you always act on your emotions. You are impulsive. You lack strategy.”

I wiped my wet cheeks, trying to focus on his words.

“But Ethan…” Adrian continued. “I taught him to be an heir. I taught him to be ruthless.”

He shook his head, looking at me with something like pity.

“You think your repentance now means anything?” he asked. “You are too naive.”

He pointed a finger at me.

“Amelia will never forgive us. If she had any mercy, she wouldn’t have forced Alaric to kick us out.”

His voice hardened.

“She wants us destroyed. There is no going back.”

***

“But…” I started to argue.

“Enough!” Adrian barked, cutting me off.

He stood up, his presence filling the small, shabby room.

“I am an Alpha,” he growled. “I will not spend my final years as a joke.”

“I will not let the entire Northern Territories laugh at Adrian Stone.”

A terrifying light entered his eyes.

It was a look of cold, calculating malice that I had never seen directed at family before.

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“We must regain control of the Stone River Pack,” he declared.

“And there is only one way to do that now.”

He looked me dead in the eye.

“We will align ourselves with the Drake family.”

My heart stopped.

The Drake family?

Amelia’s sworn enemies?

The people who wanted her dead?

“Dad…” I whispered, horror dawning on me.

“They have the power,” Adrian said, his voice flat. “They hate her. We have a common enemy.”

He was talking about betraying his own daughter.

He was talking about joining forces with the monsters who would hunt her down.

Rage, hot and blinding, surged through my veins.

I stood up, knocking the coffee table with my shin but feeling no pain.

I looked at my father, and for the first time, I didn’t see an Alpha.

I saw a traitor.

“Dad, I will never allow you to hurt Lia again!”

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