Bound To The Broken Alpha (Amy and Daniel) novel Chapter 147

Chapter 147 Tearing Down Every Lie

DANIEL

“But we’ll find it together. You won’t go through this alone.” I assured Amy.

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The office began to feel like a cage. Amy hadn’t said a word since Elias left her with the cold truth. She kept mopping after I left her in her office and wouldn’t move.

By noon, I couldn’t stand it anymore. “Come on,” I said, grabbing my keys.

She blinked, slow and detached. “Where are we going?”

“Anywhere but here.”

She hesitated, but something in my tone must’ve gotten through because she finally stood up. didn’t wait for her to argue. We left everything behind the files, the tension, Elias’s shadow and drove until the city thinned out and the roads grew quiet.

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I stopped at a small park outside the main district. It was almost empty, just a few trees shedding their leaves and the faint sound of running water from a nearby fountain. I thought the silence might help her breathe again.

Amy sat on a bench and hugged her arms around herself. She looked tired in a way that had nothing to do with sleep. I sat beside her, leaving just enough space for her to choose if she wanted closeness or distance.

For a long while, she said nothing. Then she finally spoke, voice small. “I feel like everything I thought I knew about myself was a lie.”

I looked at her. “You’re not a lie, Amy.”

She shook her head. “Then what am I? My mother cheated. Elias isn’t my father. And the man who is… didn’t even want me. Do you know what that feels like? To realize you were unwanted before you were even born?”

I didn’t answer right away. Some truths didn’t need to be met with explanations. They needed silence.

Amy kept going, her words trembling now. “I spent years wondering why I never looked like anyone in the foster homes. Why I didn’t belong anywhere. And when Mrs. Smith gave me that photo before she died, I thought I finally had something. A piece of who I was. Now even that’s gone.”

Her voice cracked. She didn’t cry, not fully, but her eyes shimmered like she was holding herself together by sheer will.

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I leaned forward, resting my arms on my knees. “You know, family isn’t just about blood. It’s about who stays, not who leaves. Elias may have told you the truth about your birth, but that doesn’t define you.”

She gave a small, bitter laugh. “Then what does?”

I met her eyes. “The choices you make now. The people you let in. That’s what builds who you

are,”

She looked away, watching a group of kids chasing each other across the grass. “You make it sound simple.”

“It’s not,” I said. “But it’s real. And right now, you need something real.”

Silence settled again. The kind that hums between two people who’ve both been broken in different ways.

After a while, she said quietly, “Do you think Elias was telling the truth? About my mother, about the Alpha?”

I thought about it before answering. “I think Elias told you what he wanted you to believe. But he left out too much. His story doesn’t fit. If he truly didn’t care, he wouldn’t have raised you at all. And if your real father was the Alpha of the South… Why hide that for so long?”

She frowned. “You think he’s protecting someone?”

“I think he’s protecting something,” I said. “Maybe even himself.”

Amy turned to me then, searching my face like she was hoping for a different answer. “Then what do we do?”

“We start finding the truth. All of it.”

Her brow furrowed. “How?”

“I still have a few contacts in the South. Old connections from before my accident. One of them might know something about the Alpha the year you were born or what really happened with

your mother.”

She exhaled slowly, her shoulders dropping as if the thought of movement, of action, gave her some ground to stand on again. “You’d really do that for me?”

I looked at her, steady and sure. “For us. This stopped being just your burden the moment you trusted me with it.”

Amy didn’t answer, but her lips pressed together in a way that said more than words. She was

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