Submission is Not My Style novel Chapter 158

She nods slowly. “The hottest man I’d ever seen. Brooding. Quiet. But his eyes… they looked just as lost as mine. I couldn’t stop staring. And when he came over and sat beside me, I thought my heart was going to burst out of my chest.” Her voice softens, a dreamy look flickering across her face.

I chuckle softly. “You? Nervous? That’s new.”

She smirks. “I didn’t know who he was, Kali. I couldn’t feel rank or dominance anymore–my wolf was gone. So to me, he wasn’t an Alpha. He was just… a man. A stranger who, for the first time in years, didn’t look at me like I was broken. We talked. Drank. He didn’t pity me. He laughed with me. He made me forget.”

Her eyes glaze over as she drifts into the memory, her voice turning wistful. “He told me about his first mate- how she rejected him for power, how she betrayed him. I told him about my ex, that bastard Beta mate who used me and tossed me aside like dirt. We laughed about how miserable our love lives were.”

I can’t help but smile. “So, trauma bonding led to a one–night stand.”

“Basically,” she laughs, covering her face with her hands. “Somehow, in that misery, we found… comfort. Warmth. One drink turned into five. And then…” She trails off, her cheeks flushing red. “The rest was… history. It wasn’t planned. It just happened. And it was—”

“Alright, stop right there,” I interrupt, holding up a hand. “I don’t need that much detail.”

She laughs, still blushing. “A week later, I realized he was the Alpha of the Red Night Pack when he came to pick me up from your adoptive mother’s house. You should’ve seen my face–I was mortified.”

“Oh, I can imagine,” I giggle.

“Turns out,” she continues, “he was just as shocked when he found out I was Jack’s sister. His face went pale- like he’d swallowed a ghost.”

“Oh, Goddess,” I groan, covering my face.

She sighs. “He stopped coming. Avoided me completely–for almost a month. I thought he’d used me. I hated him. And then one day… he showed up again. At my doorstep.”

Her eyes meet mine, shimmering with emotion. “I tried to ignore him. I told him to leave, but he wouldn’t. That’s when he finally explained everything. He said he hadn’t told me he was an Alpha that night because of my trauma experience with my ex–the Beta who treated me like trash. He didn’t want me to look at him with fear. He said he’s nothing like that man–that he’d rather die than lay a hand on a woman.‘

My chest tightens as she continues, her voice soft but steady. “Then he told me everything–about you, his ex- best friend. How he was once in love with you. I won’t lie, I was jealous at first. But then he told me how Jack threatened to break his bones if he even looked your way again. That’s why he treated you like a stranger.”

I sit up straighter, eyes wide. “Jack what?”

Jasmine raises a brow. “You didn’t know?”

I throw my hands up. “Of course I didn’t know! My husband apparently enjoys keeping secrets.”

She chuckles softly, shaking her head. “Anyway, Caspian said it wasn’t just Jack’s threat that kept him away. He said something changed in him–the day he accepted his Alpha power. He described it like new blood was flowing through his veins. He said the old Caspian died that day, and that’s why he never came to you. He didn’t want to drag his past into his new life. He wanted to start over. To love again.”

There’s a strange heaviness behind those words, something that makes my skin prickle.

“And then he did something no Alpha would ever do. In front of his entire pack… he knelt. He begged me to forgive him–to give him another chance. To let him prove that I was the one he wanted.”

My mouth falls open. “He what?”

She nods, a shaky smile curving her lips. “The mighty Alpha Caspian—on his knees for a wolfless girl.”

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