Alpha's Discarded Luna (Talia) novel Chapter 292

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Chapter 289

Talia’s POV

The deafening echoes of fracturing bones and shattering

steel slowly dissolve into the concrete walls of the

abandoned warehouses. A heavy, suffocating silence returns

to the 12th intersection, pressing down on my chest like a

physical weight. The thick, metallic stench of copper and burning radiator fluid fills the damp midnight air, a horrifying testament to the massacre that just unfolded before my eyes.

I remain frozen against the rough brick wall of the loading dock, my hands still tightly clenched behind my back. My breath comes in short, shallow gasps. My bare shoulder

shivers violently against the biting midnight wind, the skin completely goosefleshed where my sleeve was torn away. My eyes remain wide, tracking the single figure standing in

the center of the dark, ruined road.

The silence is broken only by Aires’ ragged, heavy breathing.

His massive frame heaves as the thick, suffocating wave of his murderous Alpha aura gradually recedes into the dark. The brilliant, terrifying crimson light in his eyes slowly fades away, leaving behind two dark, hollow pupils, that look

completely fractured. He drops a heavy iron pine from his

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through the empty industrial zone.

He turns around slowly, his gaze instantly locking onto me. The feral, unstoppable predator who just systematically dismantled twenty armed mercenaries vanishes in a split

second. In his place is a man who looks completely broken, his features twisting into an expression of raw, agonizing horror as his eyes register my torn dress and my shivering

body.

Aires stumbles forward, his steps clumsy, heavy, and completely stripped of his usual commanding grace. He crosses the short distance between us as if he is walking through deep mud, his hands trembling violently at his sides.

Before I can take a step away, his knees give out entirely.

The heavy thud of his knees hitting the cold, broken concrete echoes loudly in the quiet night. The powerful Alpha of the pack drops directly to the floor right before my feet, his shoulders collapsing inward as a low, broken sob tears from his throat. He rips his heavy black leather jacket from his shoulders, his movements frantic and desperate, and wraps it carefully around my shaking shoulders. The leather is

warm, carrying his distinct, heavy scent of cedar and ozone, but the warmth does nothing to calm the freezing numbness in my chest.

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He reaches out, his large, calloused hands hovering just inches away from my ankles, shaking so hard he cannot even

find the strength to touch my shoes.

“Talia… oh God, Talia,” Aires weeps, his voice rough, cracked,

and completely dripping with a desperate, suffocating

agony. He buries his face in his hands, his head bowing all the way down to the concrete floor before me. “I am sorry… I

am so incredibly sorry. I am a fool. A blind, arrogant fool.”

I look down at the back of his head, my expression

completely neutral, my heart remaining dead still against my

ribs.

“I heard him,” Aires chokes out through his tears, his chest

heaving violently as he offers his desperate apology. He lifts

his head, looking up at me with eyes that are completely red,

swollen, and begging for a scrap of mercy. “I went to Nick’s

penthouse… I overhears him bragging on the phone about

what they planned to do to you. I froze, Talia. My entire world

completely shattered in that living room. The things he said…

the things they wanted to do to you…”

He reaches up, his trembling fingers gently catching the

edge of his leather jacket where it rests on my chest, trying desperately to pull me closer to his warmth.

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everything is entirely my fault. My own blindness, my own

stupid assumptions caused this horror to walk right to your

door. I assumed you were wrong because it was easy. I assumed you were an unrefined, quiet housewife who would just endure everything without a fuss, while I kept a monster wrapped tightly around my family. If my instincts hadn’t stopped me at his door, if I had been sleeping… you would

have been entirely destroyed tonight. Because of me.”

He presses his forehead against my silver shoes, his tears

wetting the leather. “I swear to you, Talia… I swear on my

blood and my title, I will never let you be in this position

again. I will place the entire pack at your gates. I will personally destroy anyone who even looks at you with malice. Just… please, don’t look at me like I am a stranger.”

The waves of his remorse roll over my feet, heavy, desperate,

and loud, but they strike against a wall of solid ice. I look at

this powerful man sobbing on the floor, the man who once

held my entire universe in his palms and used that power to

freeze me out of his world.

Though my body is weak, shivering, and drained from the

lingering fever, a sudden, sovereign strength returns to my

spine.

Apall back. I take a deliberate, heavy step backward, forcing

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connection entirely. I pull his large leather jacket tighter

around my torn bodice, not to accept his warmth, but simply

to shield my bare skin from his sight.

I look down at him, my dark pupils turning like two chips of ice under the moonlight, completely detached from the

bleeding display of his grief.

“You still do not understand, Alpha Aires,” I say, my voice

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