I Forgot I Loved You Alpha (Ellie and Nolan) novel Chapter 106

Chapter 106

Nolan POV

It was three in the morning by the time I finally stopped.

My desk was buried beneath the weight of it. The printouts, intercepted text messages, copies of emails, and recordings of call logs.

Every thread I tugged unraveled into another, all of it twisting together into a knot I couldn’t ignore. It was the kind of proof no one could deny, no matter how much I wanted to.

Felicity’s schemes.

Her fingerprints were on everything. The spies in the pack house, the poisoned meal nearly a year ago, the constant drip of whispered lies meant to erode Ellie’s place by my side.

All of it traced back to her.

I didn’t even need to drag Ellie’s attacker into it, not tonight. I wasn’t sure I could stomach hearing him confirm what I already knew-that Felicity had known Ellie was pregnant, that she’d ordered her death anyway.

My chest ached, too raw for words like heartbroken. No, this wasn’t heartbreak. This was being gutted, hollowed out, as if something vital had been torn from me and ground into the dirt.

How had it come to this?

I leaned back in my chair, closing my eyes, trying to push away the images flashing through my mind. Not the proof spread across my desk. Not Ellie, pale and broken on the ground after the poison had nearly killed her.

Not the thought of our unborn children stolen from us before they had a chance to take a breath.

No, the images that cut deepest were the oldest ones.

The first time I met Felicity, she’d been six years old, a skinny little girl with scraped knees and messy pigtails. I was seven, bleeding in the dirt after my father’s training had gone too far again.

They called it discipline. I knew better, even then.

Silver Fang wasn’t a large or powerful pack back then. My parents were ambitious, determined to grow the pack into something formidable. To make that happen, they needed me, the firstborn son and future alpha, to be perfect.

They didn’t care what it took to make that happen. So, while the other children played in the summer sun, I trained in the fields, from sunup until my body gave out.

I could still remember the look of disgust on my father’s face as he looked at me lying on the ground, my smeared in dirt and blood. “Don’t come home until you’ve learned to act like a man.”

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I hadn’t expected anyone to find me that day. I’d hidden away from the other kids, ashamed of my weakness, determined not to drag myself home until I could stand tall again.

But she found me.

Felicity came running across the field, a half-eaten pastry in her hand-some kind of sticky summer treat the kids used to beg the bakers for.

She didn’t know me, not really. I wasn’t the Alpha’s son to her then. I was just a boy curled in the dirt, trying not

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to cry.

And she offered me the rest of her pastry.

“You look sad,” she said, tilting her head curiously.

I hadn’t answered. I didn’t know how. It was such a simple observation that it froze me in place. Then her little hand was shoving the pastry at me.

“This is really sweet, it’ll cheer you up!”

It was the first time anyone had looked at me and seen more than a title or an opportunity. The first time anyone had seen me for what I was, a sad little boy.

I thought that meant something. For years, I thought it meant everything.

She had been the one constant in my life, the first warmth I ever felt. When my parents drove me until my body gave out, Felicity was there.

When I believed no one in this world could love me for who I was, Felicity proved me wrong.

I made her so many promises, and she was the only one I ever tried to follow through for. I made Silver Fang into something powerful, something to be proud of, and I did it all with her by my side.

She held me when it was almost too much, she made me feel safe when the weight of it all was crushing me. And I let her have her way, I spoiled her in every way I could…

But now?

Now she had traded my children’s lives for ambition. She had turned her loyalty, her cunning, her access, into weapons against me. Against Ellie. Against our family.

I pressed the heels of my hands into my eyes, fighting the burn. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t reconcile the girl with the woman she’d become.

That little girl with scraped knees had grown into someone who saw becoming my Luna as more important than the lives of my unborn children.

The thought made me sick.

And the worst part?

I still loved her.

It wasn’t the same way I felt about Ellie, not the bond that burned and refused to break no matter how I fought it, but it was strong in a different way.

A part of me would always love Felicity, because she had been the first. My first friend. My first taste of kindness. My first love.

But that love was a ghost now. A hollow echo of something that no longer existed.

I glanced back down at the evidence, my jaw tightening as the fury swelled again. Logic told me it was adrenaline making my veins feel like ice, but it didn’t matter.

My wolf paced inside me, restless, snarling, demanding justice.

Felicity couldn’t be trusted. Not again. Not ever.

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I had given her too many chances. I had turned away from her schemes, her insults, her petty cruelties, because I didn’t want to see what was staring me in the face.

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