Alpha's Regret: The Seventh Time was Forever

Chapter 411 – Olivia’s Confession

Olivia dropped her eyes to the floor, completely unable to meet anyone’s gaze. Her hands shook violently in her lap as she kept twisting her fingers together over and over, the suffocating silence pressing down on her like a ton of bricks. Nobody rushed her. They all just waited, hungry for every single ugly detail of the truth.

After sucking in a shaky breath, she finally forced herself to keep going.

"So... I sent Oriana a letter," she whispered, her voice barely loud enough to carry across the deck.

"It took months before I finally got a reply." A sad little smile flickered across her face for just a second before it vanished completely. "She apologized for taking so long and explained that all her Luna duties had kept her swamped, so she couldn’t write back any sooner."

Olivia swallowed hard around the massive lump in her throat.

"She also said she couldn’t tell her husband about me until we met in person. She wanted us to take a DNA test first so there’d be zero doubt that we were really twins."

Her fingers squeezed each other so tightly her knuckles went bone white.

Life could be so unbelievably cruel. For more than thirty years she had lived wrapped in luxury, respected and treated like a true Luna.

Now here she was, stripped of everything she had stolen, sitting alone while every person she once called family stared at her with pure disgust and hatred burning in their eyes.

It was impossible not to miss the life she had lost.

Still... deep down in her shattered heart, a tiny, desperate spark of hope refused to die. She kept clinging to the fragile dream that the man who had looked at her with love every single morning for decades might somehow find it in himself to show her even a shred of mercy and forgiveness.

reason she decided to lay everything bare now instead

through," she admitted softly,

as the memories flooded

a date for us to meet and gave

laugh slipped out of her before she could

never got the chance

her shoulders. Sometimes she couldn’t stop torturing herself with thoughts of how completely different

Oriana would have welcomed her with open arms. Maybe her sister would have protected her. Maybe

none of this horror would have ever

her

had just kept her mouth shut... if Seraphine had never shown up in Voren’s life, if every secret had remained hidden, they all could have

lips started

her throat like broken glass. "He treated me like I wasn’t even

quiet. No one

got drunk." Her breathing turned ragged and uneven. "He insulted me, humiliated me, and blamed me for every single thing that

she wrapped her arms tightly around herself, almost like she could still feel those

Fresh tears poured down her cheeks. "He locked me in a room for

that... I was too terrified to ever

face in the room showed any sympathy. Not Vladimir, not Voren, not Seraphine, and definitely not even Kylie. The hell

unforgiving expressions and dropped

tears blurred her vision until she could barely see. "He wouldn’t even let me hold her. He kept saying I wasn’t fit to be her mother. Most of the time