Reclaimed By My Alpha (Natalia and Andrei) novel Chapter 203

Chapter 203

Chapter 203

Natalia

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I found Damon in his study that afternoon, hunched over a stack of paperwork with a cup of coffee growing cold beside him. The late afternoon sun streamed through the windows, casting golden ret des across the hardwood floor. He looked up when I knocked on the doorframe, and his face immediately so!

a smile.

“Hey. Come in.” He gestured to the chair across from his desk. “How are you holdin everything?”

ter… well…

“I’m not sure,” I admitted, sitting and leaning back in the plush armchair. “It’s a lot to process.”

Damon set down his pen and leveled me with a knowing gaze. “I can imagine. Finally telling Andrei everything, finding out that he hadn’t been the one to try to have you killed… it must be confusing.”

“Confusing is putting it lightly,” I snorted, scrubbing my hands over my face. “For so long, I thought Andrei chose her over me. That he tried to have me killed, then moved on and built a life with her while I was hiding with the twins. But now…”

I dragged my lower lip through my teeth. “I just don’t know what to think anymore.

Damon studied my face for a long moment. “Do you still love him?”

The question should have been expected, and yet it took me completely by surprise. My heart started pounding, and that familiar heat of embarrassment and something else I hardly dared name rushed to my cheeks. “Damon

“”

“It’s okay if you do. I just want to know where your head is at.”

I stared down at my hands, trying to find the right words. Did I still love Andrei? My mind immediately went back to last night, to the tender words and kisses we’d exchanged in the dim light of the infirmary. It was perfect. Utterly perfect.

After everything that had happened, perhaps I couldn’t deny it anymore.

“Yes,” I whispered, and saying the word out loud felt like a leaden weight had lifted from my shoulders. “I never stopped loving him. Even when I thought he’d betrayed me, even when I was convinced he wanted me dead, there was always this part of me that…” I trailed off, shaking my head.

Finally, I managed, “I always secretly hoped that he still loved me, too. And that I was wrong about everything.” Tears pricked at the backs of my eyes, but I blinked them away. “Goddess, that sounds pathetic.”

“It doesn’t sound pathetic at all. It sounds honest. And real.”

I looked up at Damon, surprised by the gentleness in his voice, “You’re not upset that I’m seeing him again?”

Damon chuckled softly. “Natalia, I realized you still loved him during the full moon. In fact, I think I knew long before that. I just want you to be happy.” He paused, then added, “But now that you two are sleeping together, I think you need to decide what you really want. Before someone gets hurt. The twins have expectations too, and they can tell when you’re confused.”

He was right, of course. The twins would notice the tension between me and their father and they would ask questions. And I had made a promise to myself and to them that I wouldn’t lie anymore.

I wiped at my eyes with the back of my hand. “It’s just… It’s not that simple. There’s so much history between us, so much hurt. And I’ve been independent for five years. I’ve built a life here with you. I don’t know if I’m ready to

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