The Alpha's Regret Return Of The Betrayed Luna (Addison) novel Chapter 423

Chapter 423: Chapter 423 Self Doubt

She had leaned on him as her pillar of strength, but now, seeing him weighed down, struggling, left her feeling restless and anxious. She worried about him more than she had about almost anything else. The last time she’d felt this unsettled had been when her twins were sick.

Unlike Zion, who wore his emotions openly when he was with Addison, Addison had always believed Levi to be steady, someone who was a constant source of calm and support. That steadiness was one of a Gamma’s greatest strengths: emotionally grounded and capable of holding up their Luna when storms hit.

For him to feel this low... it meant even his emotional threshold had been shattered. The thought of the damage he must have suffered during the rogue attack made her chest tighten, and she couldn’t even begin to imagine the weight of it.

Addison bit her lower lip, searching for a way to comfort Levi, anything that might help her understand the depth of what he was feeling right now.

She wanted to be there for him just as he had been there for her during the days she doubted herself, when everyone else dismissed her and tore her down. Only Levi believed in her then. Only he stood by her side, telling her she was capable, giving her the strength to keep going.

Levi had done so much for her in silence. Yes, part of it was because he had been her Gamma, but even then, the friendship between them had already begun to bloom. And now that he was her mate, realization hit her with a pang of guilt that she might have neglected him without meaning to.

He had always been her quiet protector, always there, always steady. Perhaps she had taken him for granted... the same way Zion and the Midnight River Pack had taken her for granted when she was still their Luna.

Addison dragged a hand down her face, feeling as if she had failed him in more ways than she realized. She had grown so used to Levi’s quiet presence, so used to his steady companionship, that he had slowly slipped out of her line of sight, even after he became her mate.

He was always so accommodating, so careful around her, that he never once fought for her attention the way Maxwell or Zion did, both of them desperate to monopolize her, to possess her completely. Levi, on the other hand, simply stayed... unnoticed, unwavering, and painfully patient.

"Haist..." Addison released a long, frustrated sigh, not at Levi, but at herself. With everything happening in her life, she had somehow overlooked the one person who had always been her most steadfast companion.

But that sigh didn’t go unnoticed.

Inside the room, Levi had been attuned to her presence the moment she approached. He could smell her scent seeping through the cracks beneath the door, could feel the faint shift in the air when she stopped right outside. And when he heard that frustrated exhale, his gaze immediately dropped, a bitter, self-mocking smile tugging at his lips.

’Of course,’ he thought. ’I must really be that disappointing if Addie is worrying over my incompetence.’

"What are you, a kid? Why are you playing this self-pity game right now? You seriously think this helps?" Levi’s wolf snarled inside him, pacing restlessly in his mind. It wasn’t angry at him; it was anxious.

It feared that Addison might misunderstand, that this moment of weakness would only create more distance between them. But what could it do? Its human counterpart was drowning in self-pity, and no matter how much it pushed, Levi wasn’t hearing it.

"Levi, pull yourself together. We may be weak right now, but we can grow stronger again, just like we always have. Hard work pays off... you know that."

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