My Alphas' Dark Desires novel Chapter 207

Chapter 207: A big N, and a Big O

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Chapter 207

~Valerie’s POV~

The guards tried to hold her back, but the raw power in her voice crackled like fire.

Uncle Zade didn’t flinch. Instead, he let out his alpha aura, forcing everyone—even me—to still.

"Behave, Solstice," he growled, using her real name. "You’ve already caused the entire Golden Claw Pack enough worry."

He turned, his sharp gaze briefly resting on me before he gave the order.

"Get her in. We are heading home."

The guards nodded. Solstice didn’t resist. Her eyes didn’t leave me until she disappeared into the car.

Principal Whitmore and Ms. Heart got into their cars, left without another word, but not before Whitmore gave Dristan a slight nod of approval.

Then they drove off with the official pack vehicles trailing behind.

And then... silence.

I stood there, alone. Empty. A heaviness settled on my shoulders as my knees shook, my fingers trembled, and my heart boiled with rage.

Dristan turned to me again, expression tense. "Valerie—"

I backed up, eyes burning. "How... could you?" My voice cracked as I spoke, barely louder than a whisper, but it hit harder than any slap.

Dristan stepped forward, reaching out. "Val—"

And heartbreak.

He stepped closer, reaching out. "Please. I was trying to help—"

"Don’t touch me!" I snapped, recoiling. My voice finally found its strength, thick with fury.

His hand froze mid-air. His mouth parted as if to explain, but I didn’t want his words.

"Valerie, please—" his voice broke, as his hand hovered near me again. "I didn’t know it would happen like this—"

Tears streamed down my cheeks, falling faster than I could wipe them.

"You betrayed her!" My voice rose. "You betrayed me."

Dristan stepped closer to me while the others watched us like a movie. "Valerie, I swear—"

I backed away. One hand pressed to my chest, as if trying to hold myself together. My heart was fracturing.

"Here’s my answer to your question," I hissed, venom coating every word. "The one you asked about earlier."

Dristan’s brows furrowed. "Val..."

"A big N, and a big O." My voice was sharp now, loud and sure despite the tears. "NO. I won’t be your girlfriend."

Dristan staggered back slightly, like the words had physically hit him. He exhaled shakily. "Val..." and he reached again.

I dodged, wiping my face. "Don’t."

And I walked away from him, from all of it, but not before I heard Kieran’s cold, amused voice drift behind him.

"Well," he murmured with a dry smirk, "he doomed himself without me trying. That’s one mate down."

My steps faltered, just for a second. I looked sideways at Xade.

His face was a picture of confusion and worry—eyes pleading, body half-turned toward me, unsure whether to come after me or stay.

But I didn’t wait.

I didn’t want to choose between their versions of pain right now.

So I ran and I didn’t look back.

"They’d all made their choices. Now it was my turn to make mine."

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~Dristan’s POV~

Valerie had bolted like a spark to a fuse, and in all the time I’d known her—through the fire and ice and storms between us—I had never seen her like that.

Feral. Determined. Terrified.

She didn’t shout when Isla said it. She didn’t cry. She just moved. And when she shoved me out of the way with those wide eyes and trembling lips, I knew... this wasn’t about a fight or a party or me.

It was bigger.

Who was Silver... no Solstice, whichever her real name was, to Valerie, really? What wasn’t I seeing?"

Wait... what?

No. No, no, no.

I didn’t report her like that. I was... I only gave a tip to Principal Whitmore to check her background thoroughly when I saw the letter and reviewed the information.

But Principal Whitmore must have forgotten or was too busy to see it.

And she grew too close to Valerie. Unfortunately, a picture of the Golden Claw Heiress wasn’t really out there, just like how the Late Mrs Zara Zephyr didn’t have her younger picture out there.

As a result, no one knew who she was.

All I did was check in on her, and the background information given to PSA had some loopholes.

And after what happened with my father and the simulation the other time, I wasn’t sure I could trust someone with unknown origins around my mate.

I couldn’t afford for Valerie to get hurt. Soren would kill me, and I would mentally kill myself.

So I sent her picture to Alpha Zade along with the letter to check. Then he sent one with her, and himself along with her real name... Solstice Aura Gold.

By the time I knew she wasn’t a bad person, it was too late. He already knew where she was.

I never knew she was Solstice until it was too late, and that was where I failed — never once confronting her with it. I simply removed her from Valerie’s side, and it seemed as though she had grown on Valerie a lot.

This wasn’t supposed to happen like this. She wasn’t supposed to get dragged out like some criminal. This wasn’t...

"FUCK YOU, DRISTAN!"

Solstice’s scream cracked through the air like a whip, and suddenly, everyone was looking at me.

Her. Valerie. The Alphas. The Lycans. Even Kieran.

I couldn’t speak, not because I didn’t want to but because I didn’t know what to say.

Valerie looked at me like I’d just driven the dagger myself.

She was crying. I’d seen her cry once, maybe twice before—but this wasn’t a tear that slipped past her defences. This was heartbreak. Betrayal. Grief. And all of it aimed at me.

When I reached for her, she flinched like I’d burned her. She said no to my earlier question, one from my heart, but I couldn’t complain even though it hurt like hell.

A tear slid down my cheek at her rejection, and I knew without being told that I had lost her.

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