The Alpha's Regret Return Of The Betrayed Luna (Addison) novel Chapter 556

Chapter 556: Chapter 556 Letting Go Of The Past

Mila cast Claire a sidelong glance, her eyes laced with quiet mockery. There was no need for words; the message was clear enough. She thinks that Claire was overestimating herself, mistaking her own cunning for something far more impressive than it actually was.

Yes, surviving three years in vampire territory required a certain level of intelligence and adaptability, but that alone did not make her untouchable.

In the court of the Alpha King, such tactics were nothing new. These were people who had grown up surrounded by power, by politics, by schemes layered beneath polished smiles.

Compared to that, Claire’s efforts felt almost... transparent. The kind of maneuvering that might impress outsiders, but would never slip past eyes trained to detect deceit from a distance.

Certainly not the Alpha King.

Under the Alpha King’s scrutiny, nothing so obvious would go unnoticed. And Mila knew it. That was why her gaze lingered just a moment longer, amused and unimpressed.

If Claire thought herself clever, then she was only proving how little she understood the game she was trying so hard to play. Even Mila, for all her restraint, wouldn’t have handled it so clumsily.

If it had been Mila attempting something like this, she might have slipped past suspicion. After all, she had grown up alongside Addison, treated as both a sister to Addison and a daughter to the Alpha King and Queen within the palace.

But everything changed because of a single misstep weeks ago. In a moment of fear, she had asked Addison to postpone her coronation, worried that once Addison ascended, she would be cast aside, that her place in the palace, along with the support she had carefully built, would vanish like dust.

It was a desperate plea, born from insecurity... and it cost her everything.

Addison rejected her.

And when the Alpha King and Queen learned of it, their attitude toward Mila shifted overnight. The warmth they once showed her disappeared, replaced by cold vigilance.

They began to treat her like a threat, watching her as one would a black-eyed wolf, something dangerous, unpredictable, and capable of turning on them at any moment. It was as if the three years she had spent by their side, the time she had filled in the absence of their daughter, had meant nothing at all.

One mistake, one poorly chosen request, and she lost her standing, her place, her identity within the family.

If that was how they treated Mila... then what of Claire?

Claire, who had openly schemed against Addison, who had tried to steal her man, who had nearly cost her life, what chance did she have?

The Alpha King and Queen wouldn’t even spare her a proper glance, much less any goodwill. To them, every word Claire spoke would be tainted with suspicion, twisted into a potential scheme before it even had the chance to be understood.

And yet, it seemed Claire had never truly considered any of this.

’How laughable...’

Mila lowered her gaze, casting one last look at Claire before briefly glancing toward the Alpha King and Queen. Regret tightened around her chest, heavy and suffocating.

She shouldn’t have done it, shouldn’t have let greed and fear cloud her judgment. Asking Addison to postpone her coronation... after everything her cousin had endured, after barely making it back alive, it had been foolish, selfish even.

It was the first time she could truly feel it, feel that her efforts had meant something. She had poured everything into this path, giving her time, her strength, her sweat, blood, and tears to secure a better future for them.

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