Dumped Omega? Now Their Alpha King Begs at My Feet novel Chapter 29

Valerie's POV

After Kai finally left, taking his intense, suffocating presence with him, I felt like I could breathe again. The entire compound seemed to relax in his absence. My father asked me to walk with him in the moonlit gardens.

The air was cool and smelled of night-blooming jasmine and damp earth. The tension from the dinner began to fade away as we walked.

"He is a powerful Alpha," Richard said as we walked along a stone path beside a series of tranquil ponds that reflected the starry sky. "The strongest of his generation."

"Our packs, united, would be untouchable," he continued, his voice filled with a hopeful pride. "No one would dare challenge us. It would secure our family, our legacy, for a century."

I stopped beside a marble fountain, the sound of the splashing water filling the quiet night. The statue was of a great she-wolf, her head thrown back in a silent howl to the moon. She looked proud and free.

"Father, I am not a stepping stone for an alliance," I said, my voice firm, hearing the echoes of my earlier defiance at the meeting table. "I spent eighteen years as a tool for another family, a pawn in their games. Their property."

"I will not be one for my own," I finished, my voice shaking slightly with the force of my conviction.

Richard looked at me, and his expression softened from that of an Alpha to that of a father. He reached out and gently touched my arm.

"I am not asking you to be a tool," he said gently, his eyes filled with a sad understanding that made my anger waver. "And I would never force you into this. I promise you that. This is your choice, always."

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