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The servants moved swiftly, their steps quiet but purposeful. One by one, Monica’s designer suitcases were tossed out into the yard–leather handbags, sparkling jewelry, glass bottles of luxury cosmetics–scattered across the stone steps like broken illusions. Her scent still clung faintly to everything, a perfume that now. turned the Alpha’s stomach.
“You’ll regret this!” Monica shrieked from the doorway, her voice ragged with fury. “You think. Jillian will take you back? She’s done with you, Floyd! She left you!”
Her words were venom. But they died with a dull finality as the heavy oak doors slammed
shut in her face.
Silence swept through the pack house like a storm passing. Heavy. Still. Broken.
Alpha Floyd knelt down, wrapping both pups tightly in his arms. Yolanda buried her face in his shoulder, her little body shaking with sobs. Leon clutched his father’s shirt, his fingers
trembling like autumn leaves clinging to a
branch.
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“Daddy…” Yolanda’s voice was soft, raw. “Does Mommy really not want us anymore?”
Floyd’s throat closed. His mind was flooded with the memory of Jillian’s last glance before she walked away. No fight, no pleading. Just quiet resolve. The divorce papers had been signed with his own hands–and now, they
burned like a brand on his soul.
“No,” he said at last, but the word came out hoarse, barely more than a whisper. “Your mom loves you both more than anything. She… she just needed time. Space to breathe.”
“Then why hasn’t she come back?” Leon’s teary eyes locked onto his. “Is it… because we pushed her down the stairs…?”
Floyd’s heart clenched. He gently cupped the boy’s face, brushing the tears away with his
thumb.
“No, pup,” he said, voice low and steady. “That wasn’t your fault. I should’ve been there, I will
find her.”
After the servants led the children upstairs, Floyd sank into the living room couch like the
caught up to
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weight of the world had finally caught up to him. His wolf, usually quiet and restrained, was pacing just beneath the surface, restless and growling.
He pulled out his phone, dialing quickly.
“Elmer,” he said when his Beta answered. “Find
Jillian. I don’t care what it takes. Find her.”
He ended the call and looked up at the family portrait hanging above the fireplace. It had been taken three years ago–he stood in the center with the children beaming up at him, while Jillian stood at the edge. Her smile, once unnoticed, now revealed everything. Strained.
Hollow.
He had been too blind, too distracted by duty and appearances to see what she’d been carrying alone all this time.
“Alpha?” the butler’s quiet voice broke through the silence. “Dinner is ready. Shall I call the young master and miss down?”
Floyd stood slowly, his brow furrowed. “No need. I’ll eat with them tonight.”
At the dinner table, the children sat quietly,
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stirring their food without a word. Gone was their usual chatter, their childish bickering.
Yolanda’s shoulders slumped, and even Leon, once full of energy, looked pale and worn. Their wolves, still young and unawakened, seemed dulled by sadness, as if Jillian’s absence had drained the light from them.
“Daddy,” Yolanda finally whispered, her voice
small and hesitant. “I miss Mommy. Why hasn’t
she come back yet?”
She glanced up at him, eyes brimming with hope and guilt. “Do you think… when we find her… will she forgive us?”
Floyd’s fork froze mid–air. His gaze dropped to the untouched plate before him.
Would she?
His mind drifted back to Jillian’s quiet sacrifices -the way she rose early to make the pups‘ meals, the warmth in her voice when she read bedtime stories, the way she waited for him, night after night, hoping he’d just look at her again.
“Yes,” he said at last, firmly. “No matter what, your mother loves you. She always has. And she
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That night, long after the pups had fallen asleep, Alpha Floyd stood alone in his study. Shadows clung to the corners of the room, the moonlight spilling through the windows in
slanted beams.
He scrolled through pack surveillance footage from the past six moons.
There she was–Jillian.
Quiet. Efficient. Always with the pups, always.
alone. She never smiled. But when the children
needed her, she was there, every time. A silent guardian.
Then came that day. The moment the footage showed her stumbling down the stairs–and him, walking past her without so much as a
glance.
Floyd shut off the screen, a storm of shame brewing in his chest.
He hadn’t protected her.
He hadn’t seen her.
And now… now he would do whatever it took
to bring her back
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To fight for her.
For their pack.
For the family he’d nearly lost.
